photos: Ruy Fraga + Leo Feltran + Claudio Ethos

BIOGRAPHY

Alex Hornest (1972) is a painter and sculptor who lives and works in Sao Paulo, a city that inspires and makes him reflect on urban themes, playful and introspective. Based on that he produces his works focusing on the relationship between cities and their inhabitants.
His sculptures are made by wood, iron, porcelain and concrete aggregates where casual and unusual objects of our daily.
On his paintings by ink oil, acrylic and duco merge to create textures and contrasts with overlays that define’s light, shadow, depth and distance since
the colors are not the key point to interpret the objects.
Imaginary reveal themselves at his paintings and sculptures, usually depict an universe in lyrical counterpoint to the chaos and turmoil where are removed.
Inspired by everything around him, focuses his works on a possible interaction between work and spectator, where one existence depends of the
existence of other.

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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017 - TUMULTO - Okupação C.O.R.A.G.E.M - São Paulo - SP
2016 - APENAS O QUE OS PORCOS CONSEGUEM DIGERIR - Disjuntor Mooca - São Paulo - SP
2012 - ZOO - Galeria LOGO - São Paulo - SP
2010 - ANIMAIS DE CONCRETO II - Cavalera Art Projects - São Paulo - SP
2009 - BOM PARA OS SEUS OLHOS, RUIM PARA A SUA ALMA - Galeria Thomas Cohn - São Paulo - SP
2008 - FALSOS ANIMAIS - Museu do Trabalho - Porto Alegre - RS
2007 - MUITO PERTO PARA SEREM TOCADOS - 111Minna Gallery - San Francisco - CA

2004 - AQUI É O INFERNO - Most Urban Store - São Paulo - SP

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015 - URBANART BIENNIAL​ - Volklingen / Saarbrucken ​- DE
2014 - O QUE OS OLHOS NÃO VÊ, O CORAÇÃO NÃO SENTE - Museu Afro Brasil - SP​ - curador: ​Emanoel Araujo
2013 - STREET ART BRAZIL - SCHIRN Kunthalle Museum - Frankfurt - DE - curador: Carolin KOchling
2013 - GRAFFITI: Tableaux de Maitres - Palais de Tokyo - FR
2009 - MEMORIA CANALLA - Museu de Arte Moderno de Bogotá - CO
2008 - INSTALLATION FIVE - Scion Art Tour 2008/2009 - USA
2007 - RUAS DE SÃO PAULO - Jonathan Levine Gallery - New York - NY
1994 - III MOSTRA DE GRAFFITI - Museu da Imagem e do Som (MIS) - SP

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SELECTED MURALS

2016 - CI.TI.ADOS (Ethos e Onesto) - Museu do Trabalho - POA
2014 - RIVER FESTIVAL - Denver - Colorado - USA
2013 - STREET ART BRAZIL - SCHIRN Kunthalle ​Museum​ - ​Frankfurt - DE - curator: Carolin Kochling
2012 - R.U.A - Reflexo on Urban Art - Acari - RJ - curator: Anouk Piket
2010 - NO BIKES HERE - Vienna - AT - curator:​ Innoperable to Bicycle Film Festival
2010 - BRASILFAST - Atlanta - GA - USA
2009 - NYPL - Hamilton Fish Park Library - NYC - NY - USA - curator: ​Lois Stavsky
2008 - FESTIVAL DELLA CREATIVITÁ - Firenze - IT