REPROVADO SESPER 2013.
Sao Pauio: Logo, Outprint, 2013. First edition. Paperback. 72p., color plates, illus., wrps. Near Fine. Item #191635
The art exhibition of Brazillian artist Alexandre Cruz, aka as pseudonym "Sesper", reflects detailed color plates of his graffitti art as well as small sketches. Sesper's work happens in the fusion of various techniques including collage, painting, drawing and assemblage, through which he articulates textured and intricate forms and compositions. A self-taught artist formed in the independent music scene of the 1980s/90s, Sesper plastically executes the concept of montage through the overlapping of material layers, re-signifying references and the appropriate contents of mass media and personal archives, operating between the social and the private. These works, oscillating between bi- and three-dimensionality, sometimes take on the appearance of a showcase, since they are display boxes of images and objects which trigger each other in a symbiotic relationship. His (half) human figures, formed through the accumulation of recoded debris, expose the excesses of a hyper-industrial society that has levelled everything and reduced simulacrum and product to something that can be discarded. Scientific illustrations of the physiology of the human body appear repeatedly in Sesper's work, as well as the clash of colours and the printed word, elements which lead to an alternating dialogue between conscious and unconscious modes of expression and reception, assuming a deliberate tension between order and chaos. No copies on Worldcat.
Price: $150.00