Painting Porto in the Eastern European skies with Wizz Air
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The Hungarian Airline Wizz Air devotes extensive coverage to the city of Porto on the December/January 2018 edition of Wizz Inflight Magazine.
Urban art is spotlighted as the city's new tool for generating new artistic talent, around cobbled streets and tiled building facades.
"Painting Porto" is the title of this report that approaches Porto as a city that is renewed and transformed after each passing day.
Engaging the collective CircusNetwork, this story explains how street art gave rise to graphic art in rundown areas in the city of Porto.
According to Wizz Inflight Magazine, "ten years ago, Porto was almost unrecognisable compared to the lively city it is today". Currently, there is a prolific art scene that comprises an Urban Art Programme, sponsored by Porto Lazer Municipal Company.
Even young artists like Mots, artistic name of Diogo Ruas, was somewhat surprised by the City Hall's invitation to paint graffiti on the walls of Hard Club, in the Ferreira Borges Market. "It was a lot of responsibility, so I'm really proud", the artist from Porto enthuses.
The report unveils as well what the Urban Art programme is all about, by enumerating artistic interventions all around town, from Ribeira to Miguel Bombarda district, from Jardim do Morro to Trindade.
Since its inception in 2014, this municipal programme, sponsored by Porto Lazer, gave rise to 79 artistic creations within the public space, for more or less ephemeral works, involving around 60 artists, foreign and domestic.