Alexandre Orion
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Alexandre Orion is a Brazil
ian graffiti artist 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. 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 in Paris
, New York
, and San Francisco.
Alexandre Orion also does photography. He will wait behind a camera for the perfect opportunity to take a picture. He claims to love the "waiting" part of photography. He considers it to be a spiritual moment during his art. Orion's life as an artist began started with hand painted shirts when he was 14, moved into graffiti with a spray can, and later evolved into art that focuses more on social issues. Later, he began "thinking about the way the community interacts with graffiti, and playing with the visual conflict between the real and the unreal."
In a 2007 reverse graffiti
project, he drew a mural of skull
s in São Paulo
's Max Feffer Tunnel by scouring away parts of the thick layer of soot
on the walls; the city later removed the mural by cleaning off the rest of the soot.
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian graffiti artist and photographer
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
.
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. The exhibit's style, which the San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
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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 in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, and San Francisco.
Alexandre Orion also does photography. He will wait behind a camera for the perfect opportunity to take a picture. He claims to love the "waiting" part of photography. He considers it to be a spiritual moment during his art. Orion's life as an artist began started with hand painted shirts when he was 14, moved into graffiti with a spray can, and later evolved into art that focuses more on social issues. Later, he began "thinking about the way the community interacts with graffiti, and playing with the visual conflict between the real and the unreal."
In a 2007 reverse graffiti
Reverse graffiti
Reverse graffiti, also known as clean tagging, dust tagging, grime writing, green graffiti or clean advertising, is a method of creating temporary or semi permanent images on walls or other surfaces by removing dirt from a surface...
project, he drew a mural of skull
Skull
The skull is a bony structure in the head of many animals that supports the structures of the face and forms a cavity for the brain.The skull is composed of two parts: the cranium and the mandible. A skull without a mandible is only a cranium. Animals that have skulls are called craniates...
s in São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
's Max Feffer Tunnel by scouring away parts of the thick layer of soot
Soot
Soot is a general term that refers to impure carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of a hydrocarbon. It is more properly restricted to the product of the gas-phase combustion process but is commonly extended to include the residual pyrolyzed fuel particles such as cenospheres,...
on the walls; the city later removed the mural by cleaning off the rest of the soot.