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My name is Atma, I am a french artist/muralist based in London.

I have been painting murals for more than 10 years in France, Spain, Morroco, UK and Mexico (see picture attached: one of the murals in Mexico).

In september, I will be in Lisbon to create a large scale mural/installation at the LX factory. This piece is part of a collective show organised by HOTCH POTCH, a european organisation promoting contemporary art. Hugo Madeira, the curator of the show, was actually one of your students and he kindly gave me your details.

The image will be a man rising from an earthquake (see sketch picture attached: "enlightenment in process"). The man will be painted on the wall of the LX factory (14 m long x 6 m high) and the earthquake will be a giant chaos on the floor (starting from the bottom of the torso) created with broken chairs, desks, tables, rubbish, etc... I am fascinated by the incredible resilience of Lisbon people who re-builded their city after the great earthquake of 1755 and this installation will be a celebration of portuguese people & power.

I am contacting you because I would love to have a video/documentary of the process of creation of this piece and I thought some video/art students would be interested to follow the process, film it and edit it.

I will start the work on Monday 20th September until Friday 24th September. There is the opening of the show on the Friday at 22:00.

A student from the university of Monterrey in Mexico did a similar video with my work there, you can see it on the following link:

http://www.vimeo.com/11934839

I really hope this might be of interest for one or several of your students. It would be a very interesting cultural exchange.

The video will be later uploaded on my website www.atma-art.com and promoted worldwide.


Atma
www.atma-art.com
+44 77 86 38 37 26


please see below the press release for the exhibition:


Caros,
Venho por este meio pedir a divulgação da exposição colectiva HOTCHPOTCH (www.hotch-potch.org) na LXFACTORY (www.lxfactory.com) que inaugura no dia 24 de Setembro às 22h.
Este projecto vai reunir em Lisboa cerca de 45 artistas de 7 nacionalidades até ao dia 8 de Outubro:
ATMA (FR), Pedro Alfacinha (POR), Javier Barrios (NO), Karl Fredrik Berg (NO), Sara Bichão (POR), Christian Blandhoel (NO), Tanja Bogo (GER), Lisa Busche (GER), André Catalão (POR), Paulo Catrica (POR), José Pedro Cortes (POR), Joana Couto (POR), Dan Dryer (Jörg Koslowski & Astrid Piethan) (GER), Marius Engstrøm (NO), Thomas Falstad (NO), Petter Garaas (NO), Christer Glein (NO), Agostinho Gonçalves (POR), Gesine Grundman (GER), Pedro Guimarães (POR), Stig Tommy Høvik (NO), Francisco Janes (POR), Robert Johanson (SWE), Tommy Johansson (SE), Stein Koksvik (NO), Christian Kolverud (NO), Oliver Kunkel (GER), Paulo Lisboa (POR), Carlos Lobo (POR), Kristin Løkegaard (NO), Hugo Madeira (POR), Robert Meyer (NO), Kristin Nordhøy (NO), Sandra Norrbin (SWE), Eduardo Petersen (POR), Michail Pirgelis (GER), Tammo Rist (GER), Sindre Foss Schancke (NO), Isabel Schmiga (GER), Katrin Sehl (GER), Thimothy Shearer (GER/USA), Bård Solhaug (NO), Lars Monrad Vaage (NO), Anne Sofie Vistven (NO), Morten Viskum (NO), Emma Wright (NL).

Hugo Madeira
info@hotch-potch.org ou hugomiguelmadeira@gmail.com
916936952