Destruction Art: Exploring the Powerful Message of Ruin

Destruction art isn’t just about vandalism; it’s a complex and thought-provoking art form. This archive dives into the world of artists who utilize destruction and decay to create powerful statements. We explore the diverse range of approaches, from the chaotic energy of graffiti to the meticulously planned deconstruction of objects. Discover how artists use brokenness to express social commentary, personal struggles, and the fleeting nature of existence. Explore the ethical considerations surrounding destruction art and its place in the broader context of urban culture. Prepare to be challenged and inspired.

Vhils - Destruction Art Book

With his technically masterful, contemporary portraits and his sensational art of destruction, including exploding walls, Alexandre Farto aka Vhils soon became one of the most skilled and talented young artists in today’s urban art scene, for what reason I’m really happy that I did this nice interview with him in 2010! Earlier this year, Gestalten published a fist book about the art of Vhils. Including a preface by Marc and Sara Schiller (who you probably better know as Wooster Collective), the book presents not just Vhils’ popular wall stencils, but also other projects he worked on between 2007 and 2011, like the Nothing lasts Forever and To Have or to Be series, or Scratching the Surface and the Disintegration series. It also includes his major exhibitions at Lazarides Gallery in London and Los Angeles… ...

Vhils Documentary

When well-known Portuguese-born deconstruction artist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils visited Venice in California a short while ago, he was followed by filmmaker Carlos Gonzalez who documented his latest work… This particular piece was done in conjunction with the European Bailout Show at the Post No Bills showspace and located just on the side of the gallery. I like the footage and especially the reverse playing and the wired atmosphere. Additionally it’s always nice to see heavy machines in action to create street artworks… ...

Explosion Wall Art by Vhils

Urban Destruction Art | Almost a year ago I showed you my love for this kind of rough and energetic urban art by publishing a big fat interview with Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils! Now he’s back with a big bang-boom-bang and jumped in from zero to hero with these awesome exploding wall… I try focusing on the act of destruction to create; this is a notion I first came across in Graffiti, and it has been very influential in my work. I believe we are all formed of different sets of layers: personal, social, cultural, historical and so on. (Vhils) ...

Abandoned Place: Teufelsberg Berlin

It’s the third time, that I have PictureReport in the program. The first time I wrote about the filmmakers crew was last winter, when they published that beautiful urban winter atmosphere video. And then, four weeks ago I wrote about the first two parts of their abandoned places series. This time, I write because they filmed another known abandoned place in Berlin: The NSA station Teufelsberg Berlin, which is empty since Americans and Britons left the listening station in 1991. The entire area is abandoned since 2000. ...

Art of Destruction: Interview with Vhils

Although I did not write about him so far, Alexandre Farto aka Vhils is recently one of my favorite urban artists. With his amazing and very popular Scratching The Surface artworks, he tries “focusing on the act of destruction to create” as he told me in the interview he gave me some days ago… uac: In the last months and years, you and especially your artworks became very popular around the world. A lot of people wrote articles about you, published photos and videos about your artworks and were - like me - fascinated about the way you create your works. Although, nobody really knows something about you. Could you explain who you are, where you´re from and how you got in contact with the so-called urban art? ...