Graffiti em SP: tendências contemporâneas presents a history of the Graffiti Day commemorative exhibition held annually at the headquarters of Ação Educativa since 2004.
In its 10 editions the event brought together 223 works by individual artists and collectives. Among the Expo Graffiti participants there were pioneers such as Carlos Matuk and Hudinilson, who passed away in 2013, and representatives from the hip hop generation, including anarchist graffiti and the introspective art produced by inmate adolescents of the Casa Foundation. In addition to the exhibition of works, every year graffiti artists are invited to paint a panel of 16m2 installed in the entrance hall of the Ação Educativa’s headquarters, as well as interventions on the building’s facade and several collective street paintings. The activities altogether totalized more than 300 graffiti artists who took part in the celebration of the 27 of March during the last decade.
With more than 50 images, Graffiti em SP is an important iconography, with photos of graffiti and also reproductions of the catalogs made by Bete Nóbrega, this one also a graffiti artist who appears both as a female individual artist and as a member of the collective Stencil Graffiti.
From these catalogs, texts written by João Spinelli, Paulo Klen, José Roberto Aguilar and Sergio Franco are reproduced, further increasing the collaborative dimension of the book whose preface is signed by rapper Criolo. The book is part of the collection Tramas Urbanas (Urban Weft) by Aeroplano Editorial, from Rio de Janeiro, a collection coordinated by Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda.