Thiago Mundano, known as Mundano, is a Brazilian street artist.[1] He was born in São Paulo.[2]
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| Born | 1986 São Paulo/SP - Brazil |
| Occupation | Artivist |
| Website | https://www.instagram.com/mundano_sp/ |
Mundano began doing street art in the early 2000s.[3] In 2007 he painted graffiti on the legislative assembly plaque in Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo. The plaque, which is in the form of a concrete block, is normally grey in color. The São Paulo prefeitura repainted the block in grey, and Mundano repainted the graffiti. This back-and-forth sequence was repeated twenty-five times.[4]
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In 2012 he instigated a movement called Pimp My Carroca, working with other artists to paint the carts of Brazilian trash collectors.[5][6][7] The movement is named after the American television show Pimp My Ride.[5]
His São Paulo mural Workers of Brumadinho is a memorial to the 270 miners who died when a dam burst at Minas Gerais, Brazil.[3] In 2021, using ash from fires in the Amazon rain forest, he painted a 1000 square metre mural in São Paulo. He created the work, titled The Forest Brigade, to bring attention to the fires and the resulting deforestation.[8][9][10]
References
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- ^ "Mundano's 'invisible' waste-picking superheroes • Recycling International". Recycling International. 6 July 2016.
- ^ "Mundano". Galeria Kogan Amaro.
- ^ a b "'Good for the Soul': Giant Murals Turn São Paulo Into Open Air Gallery". The New York Times. 30 May 2021.
- ^ Kantaris, Elia Geoffrey; O'Bryen, Rory (2013). Latin American Popular Culture: Politics, Media, Affect. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85566-264-3.
- ^ a b Poon, Linda (17 January 2015). "MTV Pimps Cars, Brazil Pimps Trash Carts". NPR.
- ^ Bofkin, Lee (6 October 2014). Concrete Canvas: How Street Art Is Changing the Way Our Cities Look. Octopus. ISBN 978-1-84403-813-8.
- ^ Collin, Robert William (9 September 2015). Trash Talk: An Encyclopedia of Garbage and Recycling around the World: An Encyclopedia of Garbage and Recycling around the World. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-61069-509-1.
- ^ "Street art emerges in Sao Paulo from the ashes of the burning Amazon". Reuters. 15 October 2021.
- ^ Taylor, Alan. "Photos of the Week: Wax Queen, Desert Blooms, Explosive Jack - The Atlantic". www.theatlantic.com.
- ^ "As van afgebrand Amazonewoud wordt gigantische mural in Brazilië". De Standaard (in Flemish). 15 October 2021.