MIAMI – Dasic Fernandez’s work has graced the partitions, streets, and buildings of cities and cities world wide, together with an unbelievable 98 thousand sq. foot flooring portray in Saudi Arabia.
The 28-year-old Chilean-born artist began portray quickly after he found hip hop music at age 13.
“And then when I discovered hip-hop, I discovered graffiti. It was like being in the street and art together, it was a perfect combination for me,” mentioned Fernandez.
Later, he went again to highschool to check structure, ensuring his work on buildings will be seen correctly.
Six years in the past he was requested by the mayor in Santiago to brighten up a boring avenue. The consequence? A totally colourful transformation of the neighborhood.
“And we ended up creating a pedestrian walkway that has artistic intervention, but it’s actually functional too and the project became so successful that it’s become permanent,” mentioned Fernandez.
Fernandez is not any stranger to South Florida. He’s accomplished quite a bit together with a mural on a downtown Miami constructing for the 2020 Super Bowl. He additionally created a wall at Wynwood Walls known as “All Fighters Go To Heaven.”
For the first time, Fernandez is making his U.S. solo show debut inside Goldman Global Arts Annex at Wynwood Walls. The exhibit is known as “Lightness of Being: A Love Story.”
Lisa Petrillo visited the gallery on set-up day and requested him how he felt about debuting his first solo show in Miami.
“It means everything to me. I feel at home here at Wynwood Walls and this gallery. So it’s kind of like we’re family already,” he mentioned.
It’s a vibrant and boldly colourful assortment of unique work specializing in the human kind.
“This is actually my girlfriend. She is my muse,” he mentioned pointing to a colourful portray of a lady’s head.
There is playfulness in his artwork, happiness, lightness, and even some ache.
“You can’t experience happiness if you don’t feel pain. You can’t really measure it,” he mentioned.
When it involves the colourful faces in all of his work, they’ve a particular which means.
“You can see the characters, they have no skin color. It’s just all the colors together and that’s how I see people and that’s how it should be. We should see each other as rainbows full of color,” mentioned Fernandez.
He hopes folks shall be impressed by his work and deal with each other higher.
“To me, it was necessary to put all this body of work together, as an explosion of colors in life and celebration. Tell everyone that we are all part of the same creation, that we are special but everyone is special, and we are all part of the same pattern in life,” he mentioned.
“The Lightness of Being: A Love Story” shall be on show on the gallery from September twenty third by way of November fifteenth.
