Mar (XX) - The Light in Us

"The Light in Us"

This is a unique chance to get some original artwork from Portuguese street artist GonçaloMar.
It is one time created original work of art, started from a blank canvas.
This is NOT a print, so you should expect some flaws, imperfections, splatters, rarely small cracks or wrinkles can also happen, and when it does, it's part of the artwork. This is just the nature of the spray paint on canvas.
Unfold in a flat surface as soon as possible.

These special characters are part of the visual world that Mar explores and paint on the walls around the world.
Comes with Authentic Certificate with artist stamp.
Responsible shipping.
Card tube package with an artist sticker.
Buying a work from Mar is buying a part of street art history from an artist that shape the vision of this art a little around the world.

GonçaloMAR BIO
The appeal was constant, it was only a matter of time, the interpretation that MAR makes of the environment that involves him as an artist must be painted.
At the age of 12 he already drew figures of his imagination with a bit of chalk in the asphalt. Over the years his professional choice was natural. During his academy course- graduated in Fashion Design in F.A.L.-he applies to a place in a Portuguese animation studio- “Magic Toons” as a drawer. It´s by this time, in 98, that he has his first experience with graffiti.
Since then, moved by his artistic convictions, Mar looks for constant evolution together and for the graffiti movement-which is evolving globally. Works also with different national fashion brands. Know by is pairs for is characters, he stands out for the way he built his characters and atmospheres giving them lines and shapes that make them unique.

- Mar is one of the first Professional Graffiti Artist in Portugal, after quit his job as a fashion designer for the Portuguese brand Station
-You can see Mar's artwork over 28 different countries around the World
- Since 2002 Mar has participated in 42 Exhibitions between Art Galleries and Museums and produced 37 Graffiti Street Art Group Exhibitions.

During his artistic path become friend and painted on walls alongside giants of Graffiti and World Street Art such as Sainer, C215, Robert Proch, Os Gemeos, Risk, Bellin, Magrela, Case and Tasso from the Maclaim Crew among many others famous in the international Graffiti scene.
From the Portuguese scene Mar painted with Ram, Nomen, Utopia, Vhils, Odeith, Bray, Klit, Mais Menos and many more. Being part of the two most active and futuristic crews in Portugal: Tunders Crew and Arm Collective, this one with Ram only.

Since 2015 until today, the artist has created Installations, murals and canvas which are acquired by galleries and collectors all around the world and created countless graffiti commissions for all the kind of Brands and Companies.

Recently distinguished by the local authority that saw him grow as an artist, with the Medal of Cultural Merit.
Nowadays, his artistic goal has to do with the exploration of new urban spaces that graffiti can still offer.