Route at Marvila
Route at Marvila
Duration: 2 hours
Mobility: by foot
Difficulty: average
The artworks this route were made during the MURO_Lx 2017 Urban Art Festival, which took place in three distinct nucleus - Bairro das Salgadas (as reference Rua Dinah Silveira de Queiroz), Quinta Marquês de Abrantes (as reference Rua Alberto José Pessoa) and Bairro da Quinta do Chalé (as reference Rua José do Patrocínio).
MURO_Lx 2017 Urban Art Festival was made under the scope of Lisbon's Ibero-American Capital of Culture 2017, so all the artists invited are from this geographical area. The works reflect as well their cultural, social and artistic influences.
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Nucleus of Urban Art in Lisbon | Alvalade
Duration: 1 hour
Mobility: by foot
Difficulty: easy
The Psychiatric hospital center of Lisbon, in a partnership with GAU, developed a set of interventions that developed along the wall that bound the hospital center, located at Rua das Murtas. From this project, which began in 2012 and culminates in 2015, resulted in a group of 77 artistic interventions, made by 61 national and international artists, always around the subject of the representation of faces and a blue background.
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Nucleus of Urban Art in Lisbon | Chão do Loureiro
Duration: 1 hours
Mobility: by foot
Difficulty: easy
Following the rehabilitation works of the old Mercado do Chão Loureiro, the Galeria de Arte Urbana, under the proposal of EMEL, the entity that manages the space, developed a project called “Às 5 no Mercado!” (translates to "At 5 in the Marketplace").
The initiative, made in 2011, has five of the most important national creator in the universe of Urban Art.
Mar, Miguel Januário, Nomen, Paulo Arraiano, Ram, that left on each floor the remanences chimeras of pilgrimages, the streets, the creatures, the words that devastated them, in the aesthetics that are intrinsic to them, in an careful articulation with the architectural project, in the aspect of volumetric and chromatic composition.
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Nucleus of Urban Art in Lisbon | Graça
Duration: 2 hours
Mobility: by foot
Difficulty: average
Between April and June of 2014, in context of the BipZip Project "Fachadas Cheias de Graça", the mission was centered in the gables recovery and requalification of the empty spaces at Bairro da Graça through one of the aspects that grounds the identity feeling of the community - their cultural heritage connected with poetry, art and literature; a group of artists, with collaboration with GAU, made artistic interventions in some walls at Bairro da Graça, paying tribute to some feminine figures of the Portuguese literature, like Natalia Correia, Angelina Vidal, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andersen e Florbela Espanca, that were connected with Bairro da Graça - and giving visibility to the architectural heritage of Bairro da Graça.
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Urban Art in Arroios
Lisbon has become one of the most important Urban Art Capitals, with 15 years of promotion, programming and strategy work and consolidation.
In Arroios, previously known as the Parish of Anjos, we can go back to 2012 to establish a starting point in the universe of intervention that the parish has hosted over the years, often, with leading interventions (Bastetball court by AkaCorleone; Arroios Market by Studio BoaHora) or with strategic projects that have been leaving their mark here since the beginning (Underdogs Public Art Program, Todos Festival).
Ephemeral, provocative, persistent, accessible, some of the parish's oldest works are still in very good condition, while other have been preserved by time and the city's vitality in archives and memory.
We can see an important collection from Lisbon that offers us several possibilities for a journey, and an unusual way of looking at and travelling through Arroios.
Today, Urban Art is a strategy and a catalyst for appreciation, socio-commnity appropriation, generating feelings of pride and appreciation of the public space, as well as artistic appreciation.
From silver to lettering, from coloured geometry to black and white painting, from graffiti to Azulejo tile, from animation to photorealism, many artists have encountered possibilities in Arroios. From gates to buildings, from pavements to playing fields, from tiles in viewpoints to playgrounds, all surfaces were and are vehicles of diverse artistic expression in this parish, which we hope you enjoy.
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Route in the Bairro Padre Cruz
Duration: 2 hours
Mobility: by foot
Difficulty: average
The artworks on this route were made during the MURO_Lx 2016 Urban Art Festival and are mostly close together, in the same neighborhood, so it’s easy to see just some of them, adapting the route's lenght.
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