Yesterday we decided to go and check out the “GRAFIKA: a collection of prints by the artists of Beautiful Losers” exhibition that is now showing @ Maus Hábitos, here in Oporto. We have been interested in the “Beautiful Losers” documentary since we first heard about it. Let me just take a moment to point out how we usually have mixed feelings regarding the whole art world.  But…”Beautiful Losers” always gave us nothing but positive feelings about it. Running a brand like we do, we know DIY to its core. It was the opening day for GRAFIKA and  also the premiere of the documentary (for our country, that is), but in a weird twist of events our car broke down in one of the busiest streets in our city (sorry, no photos of that). There you have it, RIVALS causing traffic jams since 2009. So we did not get there in time for the screening of the film, but we still saw the collection. Now, I’m not going to get into great detail about the artists or the content of the exhibition (you can go here and  here for that), but I’ll just have to congratulate the good people at S.P.O.T. for bringing this awesome display of underdog art into our city. It’s urban, it’s nerdy, it’s skate, it’s graffiti, it’s punk, it’s hip-hop, but more importantly, it’s pure. We totally recommend you go see it yourself.

We just couldn’t find the KAWS piece, even though we looked everywhere. We might have to go there again and conduct some further investigation!