Odeith was born in 1976
in Damaia (Portugal). He held a spray can for the first time in the mid-1980s,
but it was in the 1990s, when graffiti began to spread throughout Portugal and
started to leave his native Portuguese village, Carcavelos, that this artist
had his first contact with graffiti and its movement. His first experiences
were sketched on the walls of the streets and railways and so the passion he
had always shown about the design had found a new purpose and began to evolve.
Shortly after, the opportunity came to paint murals in a large scale in
Damaia, Carcavelos, and in many districts of social housing as Cova da Moura, 6
de Maio and Santa Filomena. From the beginning, the artist has shown particular interest in perspective and shadows in a dark style, which he later called "3D dark", where the compositions, landscapes or portraits, messages or tributes, stood out for its realism and technique. In 2005, Odeith was internationally recognized for its revolutionary inroads in anamorphic art field, which is distinguished by his compositions created in perspective and painted in different surfaces, such as corners or walls 90º from the ground, creating an optical illusion effect. In 2008, he decided to close his tattoo studio (opened in 1999) and moved to London.
His most recent achievement is a
work of art in the Azores to honour Nicolau Breyner and which I consider
excellent.
