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STATEMENT

As an artist, i’m not specifically interested in beauty, not in the greek conception of the word. purity of form bores me. symmetry makes me sick. Harmony does not appeal to me at all. I’m an urban spirit accustomed to the delicate relationships that emerge from chaos. My eyes are rough, they belong to asphalt and to concrete. I see humanity in the skyscraper that defies gravity and god to scream: we live, therefore, we create. My art stands for everything that’s broken, everything that’s fake, everything in this jungle fever we call home. It speaks the city language and it feeds from the city codes: traffic lights, sirens, typography and anarchy. Digital by nature, it is distilled from silicon, ripped off from the algorithm. It bends what should be cartesian in primary colors and make it instinct. I feel my work as a manifesto of the undesirable, graphic remains of a nightmare. But in a very particularly way, i’m a humanist, a poet of the scars, a punk playing horse polo. Deep down we have something in common, even if it's nothing.

FIND OUT AND GET YOURSELF A PUNCH!

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ABOUT

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Roger Monteiro was born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, in the late '70s. he holds a degree in literature and a postgraduate degree in visual arts, with a specialization in art history and visual culture. Alongside a long and successful career as an art director and graphic designer, he has been more consistently dedicated to graphic arts since 2013, researching, exploring, and applying digital media in artistic creation. His work focuses on contemporary and urban themes and is heavily influenced by pop culture, rock'n'roll, punk aesthetics, and the industrial processes of image production. His work has been exhibited and published in various cities in Brazil and countries such as Croatia, England, Finland, France, Georgia, Italy, Liechtenstein, Portugal, and Spain. recently, as a natural consequence of his engagement with the digital world, he has devoted himself to studying generative artificial intelligence platforms and their potential for interaction with artistic work, experimenting, thinking, and writing about the subject. he is represented in Brazil and Europe by Ava Gallery. An eternal enthusiast of doubt, Roger Monteiro believes that if he is ever one hundred percent certain about something, he is not doing his job right. Always wanted to be a Russian sniper in the Second World War, but understands there are at least three reasons why this could not have happened. He is married to the beautiful Olivia and rides an old motorcycle named Lady Luck.

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Geometrethnics (2023)

Municipal Historical Archive

Caxias do Sul

 

One Pocket Exhibition (2022)

Fucture Factory

Porto Alegre

 

A Brief Chromatic Cartography of Porto Alegre (2022)

Master Porto Alegre Hotel

Porto Alegre

 

Mutabilis (2021)

Henrique Ordovás Filho Cultural Center

Caxias do Sul

 

Mutabilis (2020)

CEEE Erico Verissimo Cultural Center

Porto Alegre

 

June – Special room (2013)

Tina Zappoli Gallery

Porto Alegre

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Bela Biennial (2023)
Correios Cultural Center

Rio de Janeiro

 

All You Need is Art  (2023)

Cordoaria de Lisboa

Lisbon/Portugal

Art Shopping Paris  (2023)

Carrousel du Louvre

Paris/France

Bela Bienal (2023)

The Cable Factory

Helsinki/Finland

Petit Gallery Exhibition (2023)

Petit Gallery

Campinas

Museum of the Artist (2023)

Museum of Image and Sound

Campinas

Brazilian Art Salon of Liechtenstein (2023)

Gasometer Center

Triesen/Liechtenstein

 

Vogue (2023)

Boomer Gallery

London/UK

Art Pop Up (2022)

Artlab Warehouse

São Paulo

International Art Salon (2022)

Galleryspt

Marinha Grande/Portugal

Yellow (2022)

MADS Gallery

Milan/Italy

 

Fronteiras (2022)

Abraço Gallery

Lisbon/Portugal

 

Icon Second Edition (2022)

Boomer Gallery Tower Bridge

London/UK

Thirty Five Years, Thirty Five Artists  (2016)

Tina Zappoli Gallery

Porto Alegre

 

Intermediate Show Visual Arts State Institute (2016)

Mario Quintana Culture House (CCMQ)

Porto Alegre

 

In the Meantime (2015)

Tina Zappoli Gallery

Porto Alegre

 

Cat Meow. Dog Barks. Ego Kills.  (2014)

Tina Zappoli Gallery

Porto Alegre

 

A new Horizon (2013)

Tina Zappoli Gallery

Porto Alegre

EXHIBITIONS
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Synthetic Desires | Trypthic | Result of my recent experiments with artificial intelligence platforms and their use in artistic creation. 

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Bela Biennial
12/12/2023 til 13/01/2024
Cassino Atlântico

4240, Atlantic Av. 

Rio de Janeiro

Curatory: Edson Cardoso

Bela Biennial
05/12/2023 til 13/01/2024
Behring Factory
28, Orestes St.  - Santo Cristo

Rio de Janeiro

Curatory: Edson Cardoso

Poetic Gestures

09/12/2023 til 23/12/2023
Art 100 Gallery

100, Cristóvão Colombo Av. - Floresta

Porto Alegre

Curatory: Thomas Josué Silva

Petit Gallery Exhibition
20/09/2023 til 23/12/2023

Petit Gallery
420, Dr. Hermas Braga Av.  - Nova Campinas

Campinas

Curartory: Petit Galeria

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