O grafite como prática espacial: a produção do grafite para além da imagem

Abstract

This study has the purpose of understanding graffiti as a group of trends. In this way, the analysis will show the operatory logic that composes each trend. First, it has been shown necessary the understanding of the image scope and then the communicative one. These are the main trends that guide the theoretical issues of the theme. The analysis of eight artists aims to identify the way graffiti artists occupy the place to make the intervention. This analysis points to a similarity among these trends: using urban area as a canvas to art expression. But it.s also detected a more performative use of the space, an use that breaks with the condition of canvas and approaches graffiti to spatial practices.