Bronx Mural Project
February 16th, 2007
On a blistery Friday morning, our brave group of Brazilians bundled up and traveled north to the South Bronx, despite the freezing temperatures, to participate in a mural project at Holcome Rucker School. The seven Choque Cultural artists took to the outside walls of the school, braving the elements, and in collaboration with the students, created some spectacular murals to brighten up the school and its surrounding community.
Fefe’s glue was not cooperating in the freezing cold, so she was given an inside hallway to work on instead. She stayed the warmest, lucky girl!
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Boleta did a collaborative piece on the handball court wall with Kboco and a local graffiti writer named Nelson.
Kboco used the back of the handball court wall to display his pixacao, continuing to spray all the way down to the snowy ground. He also chose a few other walls of the school to work on, one of which included his trademark "macaco" figure.
Onesto chose a long stretch of wall to work on, painting several figures in a bold orange color, all lined up and created in a larger-than-life-size scale.
Highraff worked in his traditionally vibrant palette of colors, the organic shapes creating a beautiful and cheerful contrast to the snowy urban landscape.
Titi Freak carefully planned out his piece, leaving his mark on the school by spelling a variation on his name. He also placed a couple of "shadow" dogs (similar to one in his gallery installation) in different spots to compliment the work of his fellow artists.
Zezao found a manhole cover to paint around, which perfectly ties to his passion for creating artwork in Sao Paulo’s sewer system. His typical blue linework wrapped around the manhole, extending all the way up tfrom the ground onto one of the school walls.
Eduardo showed a few students the popular tradtion of wheat pasting posters on to a wall. This repetition of images creates a strong pattern, a sort of urban wallpaper for the streets.
Baixo and Mariana were interviewed by some members of the press.
A few of the artists took a break to play futbol!
The kids enjoyed their workshop, experimenting and learning about graffiti from the pros.
