
ROGER MONTEIRO'S GRAPHICHAOS
STATEMENT | ABOUT | EXHIBITIONS | SCHEDULE | HIT ME

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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.
STATEMENT
Find out and get yourself a punch.
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.
STATEMENT
Find out and get yourself a punch.

ABOUT
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.

DECLARAÇÃO


Punk's Not a Cry Me
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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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
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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

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

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Bela Biennial
05/11/2023 til 09/01/2024
Correios Cultural Center
20, Visconde de Itaboraí – Centro
Rio de Janeiro
Curatory: Edson Cardoso
Petit Gallery Exhibition
20/09/2023 til 23/12/2023
Petit Gallery
420, Dr. Hermas Braga Av. - Nova Campinas
Campinas
Curartory: Petit Galeria
SCHEDULE
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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Poetic Gestures
09/12/2023 til 23/12/2023
Art 100 Gallery
100, Cristóvão Colombo Av. - Floresta
Porto Alegre
Curatory: Thomas Josué Silva
Bela Biennial
05/12/2023 til 13/01/2024
Behring Factory
28, Orestes St. - Santo Cristo
Rio de Janeiro
Curatory: Edson Cardoso