{{short description|Portuguese visual artist and illustrator}} {{moresources|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox artist | name = Add Fuel | image = | caption = | birth_name = Diogo Machado | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1980|5}} | birth_place = Cascais, Portugal | field = Graffiti<br /> Street art<br /> Illustration<br /> Pop surrealism | training = IADE | awards = }} '''Add Fuel''', real name '''Diogo Machado''' (born May 1980), is a Portuguese visual artist and illustrator. He lives and works at Cascais, Portugal.
== Artistic style == Diogo Machado's artwork combines fictional characters, decorative elements, and humor. His mural work using tiles and stencils is inspired by ''trompe-l'œil'', and often emphasizes symmetry.<ref name=Walk&Talk>{{cite web|last=Teresa |first=Pearce de Azevedo |title=Diogo Machado in Walk&Talk |url=http://walktalkazores.org/2012/img/bios/diogomachado_EN.png |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222020317/http://walktalkazores.org/2012/img/bios/diogomachado_EN.png |archivedate=2014-02-22 }}</ref>
== Career ==
=== Illustration === Add Fuel has cited an older cousin who introduced him to a wide range of popular and classical artforms.<ref name=ArizeMag>{{cite web|last=Arize |first=Magazine |title=Diogo Machado–Well known illustrator Diogo…Adds Fuel to the Fire |url=http://www.arizemag.com/2008/09/diogo-machado/ |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101227230108/http://www.arizemag.com/2008/09/diogo-machado/ |archivedate=27 December 2010 }}</ref>
=== Street art, ceramic panels and murals === Add Fuel has used Azulejo mosaic tiles as a medium for graffiti and other works, and has also described is as a cultural influence.<ref name=Scienseoftime>{{cite web|last=Salome|first=Areias|title=Portuguese Mosaic Tiles Meet Urban Graffiti|url=http://scienceofthetime.com/2011/08/15/add-fuel-to-the-fire-%E2%80%93-and-portuguese-mosaic-tiles-meet-urban-graffiti/|publisher=Science of Time|access-date=2014-02-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221224251/http://scienceofthetime.com/2011/08/15/add-fuel-to-the-fire-%E2%80%93-and-portuguese-mosaic-tiles-meet-urban-graffiti/|archive-date=2014-02-21|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Machado traces his initial interest in reviving Azulejo to the Cascais ArtSpace festival in Cascais in 2008. "At the time, I received the invitation to cover an entire building with a giant printed canvas and my idea was to develop an illustration piece that would represent me as an inhabitant of my city, being the festival in Cascais." he says. "I investigated several Portuguese traditional techniques and elements, such as the Galo de Barcelos and the Arraiolos tapestries, but it was a building, so the Azulejo aesthetic was the one it felt right to work on"<ref name="Diogo">{{cite web|last=Diogo |first=Machado |title=Add Fuel. Devolver os azulejos às paredes |url=http://www.ionline.pt/artigos/mais/add-fuel-devolver-os-azulejos-paredes/pag/-1 |publisher=Jornal i |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226071600/http://www.ionline.pt/artigos/mais/add-fuel-devolver-os-azulejos-paredes/pag/-1 |archivedate=26 February 2014}}</ref>
After this first experience, Machado studied Azulejo and ceramics and began applying it to other urban art settings, often in incongruous and non-traditional contexts.<ref name="Diogo"/> Noteworthy pieces include a 30 meters long ceramic mural, made for the Walk & Talk Public Art Festival on Ponta Delgada in the Azores islands.
Explaining why he chose the name Add Fuel, Machado has said "it's an abbreviation of the expression 'add fuel to the fire' which I like and used as my name for some time. The fact that it's in English is just because it's easier to work in an international market. Diogo Machado is hard to pronounce and to work just in the Portuguese market, unfortunately is not possible."<ref name="Diogo"/>
=== Commissioned projects === A Better Tomorrow, Alfa Romeo, Avalon7, Beatbombers, Burton Snowboards, Cropp, Colourlovers, Computer Arts, Dj Ride, Don't Panic, Digit, Europa Magazine, Feed The Beast FUEL TV, GAU Lisbon, MTV, MySpace, Nike, Inc., Popular Mechanics, Pyknic Clothing, Pocket Frenz, Red Bull, Toy2R, TMN (Meo (mobile phone company)), Wired (magazine), X-Funs, Yes No Maybe.
== Media == {{Commons category}} <gallery> File:Add Fuel - Coimbra 2013.webm|Coimbra 2013 File:Add Fuel - Walk&Talk Azores 2012.webm|Walk&Talk Azores 2012 </gallery>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{Official website|http://www.addfuel.com}}
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