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A Flurry of Feathers and Leaves Surround Spirited Birds in Fio Silva’s Vivid Murals
Castelar, Buenos Aires. All images @ Fio Silva, shared with permission
Fio Silva tucks clusters of oversized birds and botanicals into otherwise stark urban spaces, creating striking murals awash in puffs of feathers, petals, and leaves. The Buenos Aires-based artist focuses largely on movement, a thread that runs through both the vivid renderings of winged subjects as they appear to take flight or perch for just a moment. “It was that lack of stillness through work and searching for walls to paint that I found meaning in my time,” Silva tells Colossal.
When working in color, the artist starts with blues, yellows, and reds before expanding the palette based on the “moods and to intensify, in some way, what I want to convey, if it is something rather clear, bright, or something… more subdued or desolate,” Silva says. “When I paint, I try to convey a certain force, that by seeing it or sharing it I can move someone, in whatever way.”
Silva plans to complete a few murals in Argentina during the next few months and will travel to Europe during the summer, with an exhibition of smaller paintings slated for October in Paris. Keep up with the artist’s monumental public works on Instagram.
Olivos, Buenos Aires
General Roca, Rio Negro
Olivos, Buenos Aires
Left: Berlin, Germany. Right: Belsh, Albania
General Roca, Rio Negro
Patos, Albania
Patos, Albania
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