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Roger Monteiro

Porto Alegre, Brazil

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BIOGRAPHY

Roger Monteiro was born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, in the late '70s. He holds a degree in Literature, a postgraduate degree in Philosophy and 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 non commercial arts since 2013, researching, exploring, and applying digital media into artistic creation. He 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. Most recently, as a natural consequence of his engagement with the digital world, he started to study 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 Zebra Art Office. An eternal enthusiast of doubt, Roger Monteiro believes that every time he's one hundred percent certain about something, he is not doing his job right. Used to be a fencer for almost 25 years. He is married to the beautiful Olivia and rides an old motorcycle named Lady Luck.

ARTIST 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 poetry in the skyscraper, grace in the subway stations. 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 city codes: traffic lights, sirens, ads, typography and anarchy. Digital by nature, it is distilled from silicon, ripped off from the algorithm. It bends what should be cartesian into primary colors to 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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ROGER MONTEIRO
BASED IN PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL

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