Antonyo Marest (SP) and Diogo Machado aka Add Fuel (PT) spent a few days ago in Miami in occasion of Basel House Mural Festival for which they painted this incredible and eye catching collaborative piece combining two different, but apparently highly compatible styles
Ph: Iryna Kanishcheva
Titled “Tropical Sunshine Tile” the new mural combines Diogo Machado’s unique approach to the language of the traditional Portuguese azulejo, and Antonyo Marest’s playful and bright style that so well fits the image we have of Miami.
Despite their styles being in a way so different, the artists manage to create a mural that integrate each others style in an almost seamless way. The result can be seem in the images below provided by the artist (final piece) and Iryna Kanischcheva (progress shots).
The artists
Antonyo Marest, (born in 1987) is a Spanish artist that having travelled across the globe, he absorbs graphic culture from America to Central Europe, currently located in the city of Madrid to show his creativity and ingenuity to develop in any field. He has done many exhibitions: customization, street art, graffiti, interior, graphic, textile and industrial design.
Among his creative works, there are several exhibitions that take his creative work from inside a museum to the clarity of the streets, sharing his art with the public in the form of painting, sculpture and photography.
Also noteworthy are his furniture and clothing designs, album covers, posters, merchandising, marketing campaigns and street art, he is currently belongs and develops projects with the collective called 11 Art Space. More on Instagram ı website
Add Fuel is Portuguese visual artist and illustrator Diogo Machado (1980). A former graphic designer, his recent artistic practice has been focused on reinterpreting and playing with the language of traditional tile design, and that of the Portuguese tin-glazed ceramic azulejo in particular. Blending traditional and contemporary elements, his original vector- based designs and stencil-based street art reveal an impressive complexity and a masterful attention to detail.
Based on a combination of tesselations that create balance from symmetrical repetitions and visual illusion techniques such as trompe-l’œil, his multi-layered patterned compositions create a poetic rhythm that plays with the viewer’s perception and the possibilities of interpretation.
He has been showcasing his work in both solo and group exhibitions since 2006, as well as participating in some of the world’s leading urban art events.
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The event
Basel House Mural Festival is a three-day, first-of-its-kind mural festival based around the legendary walls of the iconic RC Cola Plant in Miami’s Wynwood Art District during Miami Art Week. Each year and throughout the festival they invite local and international artists to transform an often-overlooked section of the neighbourhood into an open air art museum.
Author: Fran
Founder and editor of Urbanite. Street Art lover who after the finishing her MA thesis on the Mexican and Norwegian muralist movement in the 1920-50s, developed a fascination for street art and graffiti that eventually led to collaborations with different art blogs, including the creation of this one.
