Alexandre Farto aka Vhils, has taken street art to a whole new level with his etched portraits. The artist chooses decaying brick walls as his canvas were he chips away through the layers to create his amazing images.
Vhils gained prominence when his work of a face carved into a wall appeared alongside a picture by street artist Banksy at the Cans Festival in London in 2008. A photograph of him creating the work appeared on the front page of The Times.
“With my work, I try to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast by this model of uniform development to try and understand what lies behind it.”
