UNEXPECTED
"...all societies at all times have some particular blind spot, that is, some group within or outside their culture that is often treated with ignorance or foolishness"
Non-Profit
Martha Nussbaum
2009-2020
ENCOUNTERS
Proccess El abrazo, El Salvador, San Salvador, 2019
Vertigo Graffiti is a strategic management model, which since 2009, has been designing, producing and executing projects, scenarios and consultancies related to the understanding and use of public art and graffiti
Afro Prism, Matuna sector, Cartagena 2012.
The Vertigo Graffiti team is made up of professional urban artists, photographers, content creators and executive directors who conceive communication in public space as an ideal (and profitable) tool for the development of campaigns and alternative artistic intervention strategies.
Reconciliation Project, Distrito de Aguablanca, Cali, 2016
Possibly, the experience for which Vertigo Graffiti has achieved greater recognition is for the narrative, social and visual design of large format murals created in the cities of Bogota and Cartagena in Colombia, and also in Miami (USA), Antwerp (Belgium), Amman (Jordan), Istanbul and Ankara (Turkey), San Salvador (El Salvador) and Sao Paulo (Brazil)
Brotherhood, Gabo and Yasar Kemal, Ankara, Turkey, 2019
Shared Look, Party Piper, Cafetal Childhood, The Gold Fish Market, Human Seeds, Lost Generation, , Wild Reading.
meanwhile...
...since 2013, the team of creators has designed and directed scenarios for dialogue and citizen recognition, starting with the implementation of urban art festivals...
María Mulata, Yurika, International Festival of Urban Art, Cartagena, 2013
Barrio Libre, Ecks and Word, Festival International Urban Art, Cartagena 2013
...in which thousands of square meters of a certain sector of the city are intervened by dozens of artists with the aim of transforming environments and building and motivating dialogues between people. This is the case of Ciudad Mural International Festival of Urban Art that took place in 2013 in the Gethsemane neighborhood of Cartagena.
Barrio Libre, Ecks and Word, Festival International Urban Art, Cartagena 2013
Semana Magazine, December 13, 2012
More recently, Vertigo, proposed, designed and directed Graffiti District for the Mayor's Office of Bogota, a whole scenario of appreciation of urban art, which currently has more than 1700 square meters intervened and more than 110 works of local artists, Colombian and from all corners of the world.
Graffiti District. Town of Puente Aranda Bogotá, 2016-2019
Additionally, Vertigo Graffiti has also understood the importance of creating works designed specifically for private environments, as an alternative way of designing and confronting the interior spaces of companies, offices and people who want a change in the conversations in their most recurrent environments.
Flaneur, Word, Bogotá, 2019
Since 2015, Vertigo Graffiti's studio and creative workshop, located in the city of Bogotá, has become a space for the creation, exhibition and sale of the works developed by the allied urban artists. These works include canvases, metal and woodwork, drawings, silk screen prints and photographs.
