Sunday 24 April 2016

Odeith

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.

3 comments:

  1. I had already seen this last work of art, but didn't know about Odeith. By the way, what's the origin of this name? Is it his real name or a nickname?

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  2. Thanks!
    His first name is Sérgio.
    I don't know if Odeith is a nickname or a surname, but I found out that he began his works using the name "Eith".

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  3. I recently saw on television for the first time their work after the death of Nicholas Breyner. Is awesome the realism and technique he uses. However, it does not compare to my work in visual education classroom.

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