choque cultural brazil
October 14th to 30th
at Pure Evil Gallery (in association with Choque Cultural)
Choque Cultural is a contemporary art gallery exhibiting pop, outsider art. Since 2004, it has become a safe harbor for artists inspired by an eclectic mix of origins including tattoo, graffiti, graphic design and illustration. The gallery is located in São Paulo, Brazil—a city known for vibrant street art, talented graffiti artists, and expressive culture. All this creative energy ignites the gallery with an ever-changing environment. Each exhibition is a creative installation and reflection of the contemporary Brazilian Street Art movement. Choque Cultural has played an important role in cultivating these emerging art forms and cutting-edge contemporary styles. Through a fresh and unconventional program, Choque Cultural enjoys a loyal following of young collectors and prominent recognition in the Brazilian Contemporary art world. For further info, please visit: www.choquecultural.com.br
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Hawaii Five
Speto 2008
spray and acrylic on canvas,
92 x 60 cm
£ 2.400,00
Speto , at 38 years old, is one of Brazil’s most popular street artists. He attributes his visual style to hip-hop influences, local popular culture, and eclectic world styles. Speto’s original graffiti blends lines of traditional Brazilian northeastern woodcarving styles with sophisticated textures and figurative imagery. Working in variety of mediums, including murals, illustration, and graphics, he fuses modern techniques with Brazilian cultural heritage to create a distinctive form of street art. Speto is one of the artists responsible for graffiti’s great originality. Art: Developed a unique style, relating hip hop elements to a deep brazilian popular culture research. Learned how to aggregate brazilian’s northeast rustic wood engraving techniques (xilogravura) with more sophisticate image manipulation resources, such as Photoshop. Speto creates using digital tools but with a strong sense of respect for his cultural heritage.
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Diálogo (Tenho Fome. Cale-se.)
Daniel Melim 2009
spray, latex and acrylic on canvas,
150 x 120 cm
£5.000,00
Daniel Melim was born in Sao Bernardo do Campo in 1979. Post graduated in Visual Arts, was on the streets of his neighborhood where he learned to paint, making graffiti and urban art, often associated with stencil painting technique. Melim’s painting is always studiously well composed. He is a formalist painter, concerned with the composition, in each work he brings the distribution of masses of color, the richness of textures and printing process. Already presented his work at various places, including Choque Cultural, Museu Afro Brasil, Memorial of Latin America, Bienal de Valencia, Cans Festival and MASP.
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Sem Sofrer
Daniel Melim 2008
spray, latex and acrylic on canvas,
96 x 161 cm
£4.750,00
Daniel Melim was born in Sao Bernardo do Campo in 1979. Post graduated in Visual Arts, was on the streets of his neighborhood where he learned to paint, making graffiti and urban art, often associated with stencil painting technique. Melim’s painting is always studiously well composed. He is a formalist painter, concerned with the composition, in each work he brings the distribution of masses of color, the richness of textures and printing process. Already presented his work at various places, including Choque Cultural, Museu Afro Brasil, Memorial of Latin America, Bienal de Valencia, Cans Festival and MASP. mel 048
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Speto 2008
acrylic and spray on canvas,
100 x 80 cm
£ 3.500,00
Speto is one of the artists responsible for graffiti's great originality. Art: Developed a unique style, relating hip hop elements to a deep brazilian popular culture research. Learned how to aggregate brazilian's northeast rustic wood engraving techniques (xilogravura) with more sophisticate image manipulation resources, such as Photoshop. Speto creates using digital tools but with a strong sense of respect for his cultural heritage. spe 021
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PJota 2010
colagem, acrylic, pencil and spray on canvas,
150 x 150 cm
£ 2.850,00
Currently residing in São Paulo, Pjota (21 years old) grew up in São José do rio Preto with an early interest in arts and graffiti. Pjota has had significant exhibitions since he was 18 years old including solo exhibits at Galeria Choque Cultural, Museum of Contemporary Art of Paraná and the Volcom Art Space, all in Brazil. Most recently Pjota’s work was included in the Paperview exhibition at the John Jones Project Space in London which brought together works on paper from three renowned London based art collections: The Zabludowicz Collection, The Lodeveans Collection and The John Jones Contemporary Collection.
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Presto 2009
spray, acrylic and marker pen on canvas,
110 x 70 cm
£ 1.100,00
Márcio Penha (aka Presto) has painted in the streets since 1996, developing a colorful, imaginative, narrative and character-based style. He studied at the Carlos de Campos school, home to many renowned Brazilian street artists from São Paulo including Alex Hornest (Onesto), Speto, and Os Gemeos. Presto often paints on aged, weathered wood and naturally rusted metals, creating a visual contrast with the clean line quality of his stylized, animation-inspired figures.
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Sem Título
Nove 2009
spray and acrylic on canvas,
70 x 100 cm
£ 1.300,00
João Paulo (aka NOVE) is 26 years old and also known by his street alias NOVE, which means NINE in Portuguese. His works result from a complex creative process of research and experimentation with media, applying acrylic and aerosol spray paint onto walls, fabrics, and remnants of found wooden furniture. NOVE’s work explores the tension that exists between the delicate aesthetic of his figurative imagery when painted on alternative canvases with rough, streaked, and stained textures.
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Sem Título
Presto 2010
spray andacrylic on canvas,
156 x 100 cm
£ 1.600,00
Márcio Penha (aka Presto) has painted in the streets since 1996, developing a colorful, imaginative, narrative and character-based style. He studied at the Carlos de Campos school, home to many renowned Brazilian street artists from São Paulo including Alex Hornest (Onesto), Speto, and Os Gemeos. Presto often paints on aged, weathered wood and naturally rusted metals, creating a visual contrast with the clean line quality of his stylized, animation-inspired figures.
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ZEZÃO
acrylic on found cloth
£4000
Zezão is a self taught artist, who learned how to paint in the streets. Specialties: Abstract painting and calligraphy, installations, site specific, photography, video art. Famous for his activity in the city's underground, Zezão goes into sewers and invades the rain water channels that flows toward São Paulo's rivers, Tietê and Pinheiros, to reveal the beauty of the monstruous city's garbage. Last Exhibitions: " Ruas de São Paulo" Jonathan Levine NY "Cidade Limpa" Choque Cultural "Street Colours" Ocontemporary UK Citações: NYT (2007), BBC-London (2007), Street Renegades (Thames & Hudson, 2007)
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ZEZÃO
acrylic on found cloth
£3500
Zezão is a self taught artist, who learned how to paint in the streets. Specialties: Abstract painting and calligraphy, installations, site specific, photography, video art. Famous for his activity in the city's underground, Zezão goes into sewers and invades the rain water channels that flows toward São Paulo's rivers, Tietê and Pinheiros, to reveal the beauty of the monstruous city's garbage. Last Exhibitions: " Ruas de São Paulo" Jonathan Levine NY "Cidade Limpa" Choque Cultural "Street Colours" Ocontemporary UK Citações: NYT (2007), BBC-London (2007), Street Renegades (Thames & Hudson, 2007)
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Falsos Profetas
Carlos Dias 2009
Acrylic and marker on canvas,
160 x 146 cm
£ 5.750,00
Specialties: Urban art, painting, installation, music. References: Pop , expressionism, Karel Appel, Cobra Group, Basquiat, sticker art. Concept: Carlinhos says his work is "not conceptual"... Indifferent to schools, he explores a particular universe, energetic, polluted, colorful, full of absurd characters and noises. Art: Original, born in the streets, in his band's concerts, in his record collection and flows into canvases painted with acrylic paint, markers, crayons, sprays or whatever comes into his hands. Pop expressionism = humor + energy. Specialties: Urban art, painting, installation, music. References: Pop , expressionism, Karel Appel, Cobra Group, Basquiat, sticker art. Concept: Carlinhos says his work is "not conceptual"... Indifferent to schools, he explores a particular universe, energetic, polluted, colorful, full of absurd characters and noises. Art: Original, born in the streets, in his band's concerts, in his record collection and flows into canvases painted with acrylic paint, markers, crayons, sprays or whatever comes into his hands. Pop expressionism = humor + energy.
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MZK 2007
Acrylic on canvas,
84 x 50 cm
£ 500,00
MZK brings to the environment of galleries objects and paintings marked by certain key elements of contemporary art. The principal is the permanent dialogue between different languages. In his case, music and drawing are articulated in various ways, the most obvious to those least expected. The world of comics is a fundamental primary source, but there is much more than that. One example is the maps of fantastic places where there is a combination of icons of your choice in the construction of an imaginary geography, with elements such as masks or mysterious allusions to sculptures of Easter Island. Has already presented his work in several places in Brasil and at USA, UK as well.
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MZK 2007
Acrylic on canvas,
80 x 47 cm
£ 400,00
MZK brings to the environment of galleries objects and paintings marked by certain key elements of contemporary art. The principal is the permanent dialogue between different languages. In his case, music and drawing are articulated in various ways, the most obvious to those least expected. The world of comics is a fundamental primary source, but there is much more than that. One example is the maps of fantastic places where there is a combination of icons of your choice in the construction of an imaginary geography, with elements such as masks or mysterious allusions to sculptures of Easter Island. Has already presented his work in several places in Brasil and at USA, UK as well. pre 088
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MZK
Exótica, 2009
spray on canvas,
120 x 100 cm
£ 1500
MZK brings to the environment of galleries objects and paintings marked by certain key elements of contemporary art. The principal is the permanent dialogue between different languages. In his case, music and drawing are articulated in various ways, the most obvious to those least expected. The world of comics is a fundamental primary source, but there is much more than that. One example is the maps of fantastic places where there is a combination of icons of your choice in the construction of an imaginary geography, with elements such as masks or mysterious allusions to sculptures of Easter Island. Has already presented his work in several places in Brasil and at USA, UK as well. Specialties: Painting, drawing, sculpture. References: Surf, moai, tiki comic strips, African masks, record covers, pop surrealism. Art: Searches for the fusion of many different languages. MZK is a dj, comic strips author and mainly a strong drawing man. Examples: Multiple canvases painted as a comics page.
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Daniel Melim
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Pjota
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Choque Cultural at Pure Evil Gallery
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Carlos Diaz
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Nove
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Fefe Talavera and Doze Green
detail of piece on glass of a door
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Presto
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