Killa Was Here Solo Exhibition Seguir artista +
As the name suggests, this exhibition serves as a retrospective of my professional career from the beginning to today. The name comes from a Sam the Kid theme, in which we come across what appears to be another love story, although in reality, or according to my interpretation, the theme tells us about how he fell in love with the art of Hip Hop/music production. Following this logic, my goal is to tell my story, romanticized, of how I also found and lost myself in this love for the arts. I will present acrylics on wood, works that characterize the beginning of my career, acrylics on canvas, sculptures, oils and also studies on paper that portray ideas I have had over the years. The exhibition will also feature a few more artefacts and surprises also aimed at embellishing this narrative of my journey as an artist, disguised as a love story.
Killa Was Here is a 25-year-old Portuguese artist, born in the city of Porto. He took his first steps in the artistic field when he was younger. He started doing graffiti in abandoned factories with his friends and, at school, he drew in every notebook he had. Later, he introduced himself to the world of arts as a professional, when he began to create, produce and exhibit in his hometown. Killa Was Here it is a reflection of the artist's own life. Most of his works revolve around themes such as love and death. Each painting tells a story about the artist, both about his personal life and about some external factor that, in one way or another, touched and inspired the artist. In the works of Killa Was Here We can often find some of its most iconic concepts, such as Killa's smiley face and butterflies and the most recent “killaz” teddy bear. Despite the bright colors present in the young artist's work, which end up transmitting feelings of satisfaction and well-being to his audience, the art of Killa Was Here It is often related to darker inspirations. The smile of Killa Was Here, which is immediately associated with happiness and the smiling emoji, embodies a metaphor for the unfortunate and common battle of today's youth with anxiety and depression. At first glance, the viewer is confronted with a happy expression, but the distorted smile accompanied by the tear in the left eye represents, in reality, a hidden sadness. Killa Was Here He is known for his three-dimensional works, where he tries to escape the two-dimensionality of canvases, by creating structures that resemble sculptures, with the purpose of hanging them on the wall. The most renowned pieces of Killa Was Here They are already highly sought after, and have attracted increasing attention and acclaim, mainly due to the artist's symbiotic ability to portray his own experiences through his works of art.