A Invasão (1998)

I remember growing up in 90’s and how I fell in love with Graffiti. I can remember the exact walls and pieces in Almada that made me turn my head and look through the window every time I was passing by in the back sit of my parents’ car. The graffiti history of my city is beautiful and I’m glad I grew up looking at walls from ISER, KANO, DARKO, TAPE, RYE, CRIME, TROL, or TIME, just to name a few. So, in 1999/2000, by the time I started going out with my boys and watch them do their own sketches on the wall, I knew the history of my city and I had learnt to love it.

When I moved to São Paulo I was presented to what you call “Pixação”, which is part of the Brazilian graffiti culture and is something quite unique in the world. I like the idea and the whole concept behind it, but that truly isn’t the graffiti I love. Since I came here, I’ve always wanted to know a bit more of the history of the other part of the Brazilian graffiti culture – trains bombing (which you don’t see that much around) and most of all, street bombing. So, last month, it was with great pleasure that I saw the digital magazine Estoro presenting one of the first and most classic graffiti movies in the Brazilian scene released in 1998 – A Invasão. More than the pieces that it shows, which really have the old school feeling and show you how much graffiti evolved in Brazil, I loved the fact that it also showed other elements of the Brazilian hip hop culture.

If you think that OsGemeos were always the fine artists that are invited to paint at Tate Modern Museum and have exhibitions all around the world, you got to take a look at this movie. Hidden faces and fat big silvers all over the street, love it! Great piece of Brazilian graffiti history.

Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/82521105
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gJ-eK_LGKI