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By Portuguese artist ADD FUEL aka Diogo Machado @addfuel at 19 Belmont Street, Aberdeen, Scotland in June 2024 as part of @nuartaberdeen festival. Photos taken April 2025.
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"Add Fuel is a Portuguese visual artist and illustrator who reinterprets the language of traditional tile design, in particular the Portuguese ceramic Azulejo (glazed tiles).

His technique of revealing and obscuring surfaces beneath or on top of existing structures and walls creates a unique optical illusion effect created through a combination of tessellations. From a distance these vector or stencil-based works appear to be recreating traditional motifs but are in fact brimming with pop and contemporary art references, rendered with a masterful attention to detail. Underpinning Add Fuel’s practice is his desire to challenge the viewer to contemplate the history and heritage that lies beneath the facades and pavements of our cities.

To contextualize his street pieces, Add Fuel researches traditional patterns from the region in which he is working. He has been showcasing his work in both solo and group exhibitions since 2006, as well as participating in some of the world’s leading urban art events." https://www.aberdeeninspired.com/murals/artist/add-fuel-2
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2023 interview (12m31s) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwIB5ryUN-E
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Artist website: http://addfuel.com/
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Mike Franks Jul 29, 2025

Unfaded by Portuguese artist ADD FUEL aka Diogo Machado @addfuel at 120 Boulevard Vincent Auriol in June 2019 as part of the Boulevard Paris 13 Project with @galerie_itinerrance. Photos taken January 2025.
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"Apart from its sheer size, the major challenge of the operation was to harmonize the deconstruction of the work between the windows constituting the façade of the building. The artist was seeking to create a dynamic work, and plays on the repetition of the square shape, associating motifs mainly in shades of blue, accentuated by a white grid pattern. Apart from azulejos, an essential element of his style, Add Fuel takes his inspiration here from graphic elements observed during his visits to Paris."
https://streetartcities.com/markers/22877
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"Unfaded depicts patterns of Portuguese and Parisian ceramic tile as if printed on panels of wallpaper torn in diagonal strips to reveal past layers of patterns beneath."
https://rogueembryo.com/2021/01/19/12021/

"He first started his practice in 2007 under the name Add Fuel to the Fire, and developed an illustrative universe populated by eccentric fictional monsters inspired by video games, comics, sci-fi and urban visual culture. In 2008, he first began studying the traditional forms of azulejo tiles, taking their patterns and palette as the starting point for much of his work. To this day, his pieces reinterpret this quintessentially Portuguese craft into a contemporary, graphic and singular vision. Each design is sketched by Machado and used to create prints, hand painted ceramic tiles, or cut into stencils to produce painted public murals." - 2024 interview
https://roadbook.com/lisbon/people/diogo-machado-aka-add-fuel-interview/
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Artist website: http://addfuel.com/
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#addfuel #aerosol #arteurbana #azulejo #bigwall #boulevardparis13 #ceramics #contemporaryart #france🇫🇷 #fresque #globalstreetart #graffitiart #graffitiparis #jj_urbanart #mural #pochoir #portugueseartist #publicart #rsa_graffiti #sprayart #