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Two stencil portraits are painted on a crumbling brick wall. The faces are rendered in high-contrast white and black, with paint dripping down the weathered surface.

Vhils

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Craig Ward
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Date
30 September 2009

I hadn’t heard of Vhils (Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto) until I saw his Scratching the Surface exhibition at the Lazarides Gallery in my last week in London. Using all manner of corrosives and techniques his large scale work is particularly stunning.

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Craig Ward

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