Roger Monteiro

Lives and works in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

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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