AZ114 & AZ113

This diptych in turquoise blue and white takes up the motif and colors of azulejo, traditional earthenware from the artist's native Portugal. Proof of his great mastery, he appropriates this authentic ornamentation, blending rosas, curves and counter-curves with exquisite precision, albeit using spray paint. He adds details of skulls and other fantastical creatures, rendered almost unnoticeable at first glance. He plays with the contemporaneity of street-art, integrating it perfectly into this traditional setting, echoing his gigantic graffiti. The layer of raw cement then added diagonally across each panel, like a kind of self-destruction, takes the viewer back to the very origin of the object of tiling, also known as cement tile. Add Fuel seems here to make the material and its decor discuss, and offers the viewer a real return to the essential. Indeed, azulejo is an object before it is a work of art.