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Mundano

Thiago Mundano, known as Mundano, is a Brazilian street artist.[1] He was born in São Paulo.[2]

Thiago Mundano
Born1986
São Paulo/SP - Brazil
NationalityBrazilian
OccupationArtivist
Websitehttps://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]

Painted wagon from the Pimp my Carroça movement.

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]

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"Workers Of Brumadinho" Panel made in São Paulo, rereading "Workers" by Tarsila Do Amaral, using mud from the ambiental crime of Brumadinho as paint.
 
"The Forest Brigade" Panel made in São Paulo, rereading of "The Cofffee Worker" from Candido Portinari using ashes from forest burning of four different biomes of brazil as paint.
 
"Ari Uru Eu-Wau-Wau" Panel made in São Paulo, rereading "O Bananal" from Lasar Segall using earth from the ground zero of São Paulo.
  1. ^ "Mundano's 'invisible' waste-picking superheroes • Recycling International". Recycling International. 6 July 2016.
  2. ^ "Mundano". Galeria Kogan Amaro.
  3. ^ a b "'Good for the Soul': Giant Murals Turn São Paulo Into Open Air Gallery". The New York Times. 30 May 2021.
  4. ^ Kantaris, Elia Geoffrey; O'Bryen, Rory (2013). Latin American Popular Culture: Politics, Media, Affect. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85566-264-3.
  5. ^ a b Poon, Linda (17 January 2015). "MTV Pimps Cars, Brazil Pimps Trash Carts". NPR.
  6. ^ Bofkin, Lee (6 October 2014). Concrete Canvas: How Street Art Is Changing the Way Our Cities Look. Octopus. ISBN 978-1-84403-813-8.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ "Street art emerges in Sao Paulo from the ashes of the burning Amazon". Reuters. 15 October 2021.
  9. ^ Taylor, Alan. "Photos of the Week: Wax Queen, Desert Blooms, Explosive Jack - The Atlantic". www.theatlantic.com.
  10. ^ "As van afgebrand Amazonewoud wordt gigantische mural in Brazilië". De Standaard (in Flemish). 15 October 2021.
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