- Alexandre Orion
Alexandre Orion (born 1978 or 1979) is a
Brazil iangraffiti art ist and photographer.He gained attention for his exhibition "Metabiotics" in 2006, a graffiti/photography project in which he painted graffiti pieces with white and black latex paint and photographed people interacting with them.cite news | author = Matthew Vree | title = First he paints on walls. Then Alexandre Orion uses a camera to bring his street images to life | work =
San Francisco Chronicle | date =March 14 ,2006 | page = E1 | url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/14/DDG3BHM72I1.DTL] The exhibit's style, which the "San Francisco Chronicle " called a "distinctive blend of painting and photography" that looked "nothing like the American conception of graffiti art", interested French and American galleries, gaining him exhibits inParis ,New York , andSan Francisco .In a 2007
reverse graffiti project, he drew a mural ofskull s inSão Paulo 'sMax Feffer Tunnel by scouring away parts of the thick layer ofsoot on the walls; the city later removed the mural by cleaning off the rest of the soot. [cite news | title = Reverse Graffiti Goes Underground in Brazil | work =Women's Wear Daily | date =February 23 ,2007 | url = http://www.foleygallery.com/artworks/Alexandre_Orion/pressimg/88_art.pdf]References
External links
* [http://www.alexandreorion.com/ Official site]
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