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From the outskirts of São Paulo to the world. Born in 1975 in Jardim Martinica, a poor neighborhood in the south of São Paulo, the artist Eduardo Kobra has become one of the most recognized muralists today, with works on 5 continents

Since the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016, he holds the record for the largest graffiti mural in the world – first with ‘Etnias’, painted to celebrate the event, with 2,500 square meters; mark surpassed by himself in 2017, with a work in honor of chocolate that occupies a wall of 5,742 square meters on the margins of the Castello Branco Highway, in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo.

One of his most famous works is ‘O Beijo’, performed in 2012 on the High Line in New York – erased four years later. It is a colorful reinterpretation of the image made by the American photojournalist Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995) on August 13, 1945, when the people took to the streets to commemorate the end of World War II.

Kobra started drawing on walls in hiding, as a graffiti artist, even during his adolescence. The taste for spontaneous street art was already visible in the boy, who collected warnings for unauthorized interventions at school and was even arrested three times for environmental crime – precisely because of the irregular use of sprays on nearby walls.

Extract from Eduardo Kobra autobiography. Read More