Electricity transforming posts gain new colours and shapes

Three new EDP’s transformation posts were subject to a maintenance undergone by artists from the Porto’s Urban Art Programme. Three different visions contribute to the urban art in the open sky of the city.

The illustrator Francisco Fonseca uses traditional houses, with the doors and azulejos, punctuated with the colours and lines that characterise his work. The illustrator was responsible for the intervention of the space in Rua da Alegria.

The Spanish artist Zesar Bahamonte was challenged to colour other transformation posts, in the same fashion in Rua das Condominhas. From the work that he has been available to develop all throughout the Iberian Peninsula, based on Seville (Spain), where he is from, he joins human faces to vibrant colours, in gestures that allow for union, fusion, the gathering of people in a plane beyond the obvious.

Witnessing a work of Tomás Facio is like seeing a sculpture incrusted in a wall. A near impossible process, that however seems to become real given the thoroughness and care with which the drawing is traced. In the recent works in the transformation post on Rua de Serpa Pinto, the artist explores some of the ideas associated to his work, with traditional elements and instruments that are, still to this day, used. As sculptures sculpted in the white lime, this proposal gives a new dynamic to this place.

The Municipality of Porto’s Urban Art Programme has contributed to the mapping of what has been done throughout the years, counting on more than a hundred works completed in the city since its implementation, aiming to give artists the space to explore the equipment and contribute for an increasingly colourful vision of the city, freely. For that, the EDP’s partnership contributes to provide its boxes and transformation posts as canvas for free creation.