Date: June 18, 2019
Patented: until June 15, 2019
Place: Armazém Regimental de Lagos (Praça do Infante)
Price: Free Entry
Synopsis
His interest in the artistic world manifested itself early on, when he began to draw his first strokes and paint. Some time later he got to know graffiti and everything that surrounds it, such as the hip hop culture, the urban language, the claims and the search for solutions to social issues. The contact with African culture and the Afro-Brazilian universe came through samba, which his mother sings and took him to the samba circles since he was a child. In this exhibition the artist shows the trip through African countries and the results of his studies valuing this connection that is part of one of the artist’s Origins.
Biography
“I have always tried to have an integration between what I like to do and reality, not having as my only reference what comes to me. Respecting this particularity, I started to draw and paint, because it was a childhood passion, and I adopted Graffiti, an urban language that together with Hip Hop claims and seeks solutions to social problems, which reflects this reality of mine.
Living in S. Paulo, where I started doing Graffiti, until then in the traditional way, it didn’t take long for me to feel the need to do drawings that were more connected with my reality, such as samba and African matrix cults.
This brought me closer to the Brazilian culture and to one of its basic peoples, the African, where I could value even more the importance of the African culture in the case of Brazil.
Seeing the impact of my work, I could realize that what was my passion, adapted to my reality, could also arouse feelings, and more than adapting, transforming and intervening in the reality of the people who came into contact with my work.
This reality was transformative, for it awakened in me an ambition that goes beyond having exhibitions and working with an aesthetic appreciated by art critics, and the desire to transform through these interventions into realities that intersect with mine, composing a society.
I believe in the role of art as a tool for transformation, that enables this direct intervention to the human being, that opens horizons and transcends, in many vital aspects, in a way that is real and accessible to everyone.
That is why today I develop my art in favor of social work, being one more tool for building knowledge”.
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