Psychedelic Brasil show opens friday, by Pure Evil on Aug 17, 2008 11:26:13 GMT 1, ZEZAO , HIGHRAFF AND MILO TCHAIS at PURE EVIL GALLERY FRIDAY 5 sEpTEmBER



ZEZAO, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL
ZEZAOS WORK WAS BORN DIRECTLY FROM THE STREETS OF SAO PAULO. HE IS KNOWN FOR RIDING HIS BIKE AROUND THE CITY AND PAINTING THE DARKEST MOST HIDDEN PARTS OF THE CITY, MOSTLY UNDERGROUND. HIS STREET STYLES ARE INFUSED IN HIS FINE ART WORK, PHOTOS, PSYCHODELICS PAINTINGS AND CALLIGRAPHY. HE HAS RECENTLY RELEASED ONE BIG DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT HIS WORK. ZEZAO HAS PARTICIPATED IN SEVERAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS, INCLUDING AT JONATHAN LEVINE GALLERY/NY, OCONTEMPORARY /BRIGHTON, UK GROUP SHOWS AND TWO SOLO SHOWS AT CHOQUE CULTURAL GALLERY IN 2007 AND 2005.
MORE INFO: WWW.ARTESUBETRRANEA.COM OR WWW.LOST.ART.BR/ZEZAO.HTM

ZEZAO, 35, IS ONE OF THE EXPONENTS OF THE NEW BRAZILIAN ABSTRACT GRAFFITI. HIS TRADEMARKS ARE WHAT HE CALLS _FLOPS_, ELABORATE ARABESQUES THAT ARE VISUALLY FAR FROM THE PIXACAO LETTERS THAT THEY FIRST CAME FROM. HIS MOST STRIKING WORK NOWADAYS HAVE BEEN THE ONE HE DOES IN SAO PAULO SEWERAGE SYSTEM AND SUBTERRANEAN WATER DUCTS, WHERE ALL THE WASTES OF THE BIG CITY ARE WASHED AWAY AMONG ZEZAO’S WORKS OF ART.

HERES A CLIP OF ZEZAO AT WORK :




HIGHRAFF, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL
RAFAEL CALAZANS PIERRI A.K.A HIGHRAFF WAS BORN AND RAISED IN SAO PAULO, BRASIL, A HUGE CITY IN A BIG COUNTRY WITH MULTICULTURAL INFLUENCES...”I HIT THE STREETS SINCE 1997 WRITING NOIS SINCE 1999 WITH TWO OTHER WRITERS AND FRIENDS. NATURAL SHAPES AND PATTERNS, THE SPIRITUALITY OF MOTHER EARTH, ETHNICAL ART ANCESTRAL CULTURES, LOVE FOR LIFE, NATURE AND ART ARE SOME OF MY MOTIVATIONS. I SEACH DIRECT INFLUENCES FROM THE FORMS OF NATURE (LIKE SUN, MOON, STARS, PLANTS, ANIMALS, CELLS, ATOMS, PLANETS, ETC...) AND IN THE NON MATERIAL PLANS AMONG US... THE NATURE ON ITS FRACTAL AND PSYCHEDELIC PERFECTION... THE CICLES... OF SHADOW AND LIGHT... DAY AND NIGHT, HOT AND COLD... DUALITIES... POLARITIES AND EVERYTHING BETWEEN IT...”
MORE INFO: WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/HIGHRAFF



MILO TCHAIS, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL, LONDON .ENGLAND
CAMILO OLIVEIRA. AKA TCHAIS REFLECTS REALITY AS A PROFILE, PLACING SHAPES, COLOUR AND COMPOSITIONS TO REFLECT THE IMAGINATION. AS HE EXPLAINS: “MY WORK EXPLORES RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN OUR SENSES AND OUR CREATIVITY. ONE THAT I HOPE WILL MAKE VIEWERS QUESTION THEIR OWN LEVEL OF INTERPRETATION.”

TCHAIS IS A SELF-TAUGHT ARTIST WHO BEGAN EXPERIMENTING IN LETTERING, FIGURES AND COMPOSITIONS WITH GRAFFITI IN 1997, ACTIVELY PAINTING AND LIVING IN SAO PAULO UNTIL 2001 WHEN HE RELOCATED TO LONDON. MOST RECENTLY, HE CREATED A PROJECT CALLED ‘LIFE BUDS:’ “IT WAS ABOUT CONVEYING A POSITIVE, HARMONIC AND LIVELY MESSAGE TO THE WORLD, THROUGH THE USE OF ORGANIC SHAPES AND NATURAL, LIFE-REPRESENTING ELEMENTS.”

IT IS THIS MORE ABSTRACT APPROACH THAT CAN BE SEEN IN IN HIS NEW WORK WHICH CONCENTRATES ON THE EXPLORATION OF REAL LIFE AGAINST SHAPES, COLOURS AND TEXTURES.

OTHER EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS BY CAMILO OLIVEIRA INCLUDE:

GROUP CANVASES EXHIBITED FOR "BRASIL GRAFFITI" BOOK LAUNCH AT ICA (INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS), LONDON 2005
"100 LATAS" GROUP EXHIBITION AT GRAFFITERIA, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL, 2005
"KOSMOS-POLIS" SOLO EXHIBITION AT MACONDO, LONDON, UK, 2007
“OS BRASILEIROS” GROUP EXHIBITION AT CARMICHAEL GALLERY, WEST HOLLYWOOD, USA.
MILO TCHAIS SOLO SHOW AT PURE EVIL GALLERY LONDON 2008

ZEZAO , HIGHRAFF AND MILO TCHAIS at PURE EVIL GALLERY FRIDAY 5 sEpTEmBER



ZEZAO, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL
ZEZAOS WORK WAS BORN DIRECTLY FROM THE STREETS OF SAO PAULO. HE IS KNOWN FOR RIDING HIS BIKE AROUND THE CITY AND PAINTING THE DARKEST MOST HIDDEN PARTS OF THE CITY, MOSTLY UNDERGROUND. HIS STREET STYLES ARE INFUSED IN HIS FINE ART WORK, PHOTOS, PSYCHODELICS PAINTINGS AND CALLIGRAPHY. HE HAS RECENTLY RELEASED ONE BIG DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT HIS WORK. ZEZAO HAS PARTICIPATED IN SEVERAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS, INCLUDING AT JONATHAN LEVINE GALLERY/NY, OCONTEMPORARY /BRIGHTON, UK GROUP SHOWS AND TWO SOLO SHOWS AT CHOQUE CULTURAL GALLERY IN 2007 AND 2005.
MORE INFO: WWW.ARTESUBETRRANEA.COM OR WWW.LOST.ART.BR/ZEZAO.HTM

ZEZAO, 35, IS ONE OF THE EXPONENTS OF THE NEW BRAZILIAN ABSTRACT GRAFFITI. HIS TRADEMARKS ARE WHAT HE CALLS _FLOPS_, ELABORATE ARABESQUES THAT ARE VISUALLY FAR FROM THE PIXACAO LETTERS THAT THEY FIRST CAME FROM. HIS MOST STRIKING WORK NOWADAYS HAVE BEEN THE ONE HE DOES IN SAO PAULO SEWERAGE SYSTEM AND SUBTERRANEAN WATER DUCTS, WHERE ALL THE WASTES OF THE BIG CITY ARE WASHED AWAY AMONG ZEZAO’S WORKS OF ART.

HERES A CLIP OF ZEZAO AT WORK :




HIGHRAFF, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL
RAFAEL CALAZANS PIERRI A.K.A HIGHRAFF WAS BORN AND RAISED IN SAO PAULO, BRASIL, A HUGE CITY IN A BIG COUNTRY WITH MULTICULTURAL INFLUENCES...”I HIT THE STREETS SINCE 1997 WRITING NOIS SINCE 1999 WITH TWO OTHER WRITERS AND FRIENDS. NATURAL SHAPES AND PATTERNS, THE SPIRITUALITY OF MOTHER EARTH, ETHNICAL ART ANCESTRAL CULTURES, LOVE FOR LIFE, NATURE AND ART ARE SOME OF MY MOTIVATIONS. I SEACH DIRECT INFLUENCES FROM THE FORMS OF NATURE (LIKE SUN, MOON, STARS, PLANTS, ANIMALS, CELLS, ATOMS, PLANETS, ETC...) AND IN THE NON MATERIAL PLANS AMONG US... THE NATURE ON ITS FRACTAL AND PSYCHEDELIC PERFECTION... THE CICLES... OF SHADOW AND LIGHT... DAY AND NIGHT, HOT AND COLD... DUALITIES... POLARITIES AND EVERYTHING BETWEEN IT...”
MORE INFO: WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/HIGHRAFF



MILO TCHAIS, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL, LONDON .ENGLAND
CAMILO OLIVEIRA. AKA TCHAIS REFLECTS REALITY AS A PROFILE, PLACING SHAPES, COLOUR AND COMPOSITIONS TO REFLECT THE IMAGINATION. AS HE EXPLAINS: “MY WORK EXPLORES RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN OUR SENSES AND OUR CREATIVITY. ONE THAT I HOPE WILL MAKE VIEWERS QUESTION THEIR OWN LEVEL OF INTERPRETATION.”

TCHAIS IS A SELF-TAUGHT ARTIST WHO BEGAN EXPERIMENTING IN LETTERING, FIGURES AND COMPOSITIONS WITH GRAFFITI IN 1997, ACTIVELY PAINTING AND LIVING IN SAO PAULO UNTIL 2001 WHEN HE RELOCATED TO LONDON. MOST RECENTLY, HE CREATED A PROJECT CALLED ‘LIFE BUDS:’ “IT WAS ABOUT CONVEYING A POSITIVE, HARMONIC AND LIVELY MESSAGE TO THE WORLD, THROUGH THE USE OF ORGANIC SHAPES AND NATURAL, LIFE-REPRESENTING ELEMENTS.”

IT IS THIS MORE ABSTRACT APPROACH THAT CAN BE SEEN IN IN HIS NEW WORK WHICH CONCENTRATES ON THE EXPLORATION OF REAL LIFE AGAINST SHAPES, COLOURS AND TEXTURES.

OTHER EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS BY CAMILO OLIVEIRA INCLUDE:

GROUP CANVASES EXHIBITED FOR "BRASIL GRAFFITI" BOOK LAUNCH AT ICA (INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS), LONDON 2005
"100 LATAS" GROUP EXHIBITION AT GRAFFITERIA, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL, 2005
"KOSMOS-POLIS" SOLO EXHIBITION AT MACONDO, LONDON, UK, 2007
“OS BRASILEIROS” GROUP EXHIBITION AT CARMICHAEL GALLERY, WEST HOLLYWOOD, USA.
MILO TCHAIS SOLO SHOW AT PURE EVIL GALLERY LONDON 2008