"Pixóptico" is a work I have just started to experiment with, ephemeral tags without paint, powered by the sun and the low-tech of mirrors. The first test was on the walls of the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo and used a small mirror with tape. 

My plan is to bring Pixóptico to different cities. I want to create bigger tags with letters made of mirrors and display their sun-reflections on buildings that are part of their peculiar urban landscape. It is important for this that I take some time to spend wandering the streets absorbing and processing the voices and messages that live there, to allow myself to engage with the city. The piece can in this way reflect my experience and literally reflect the message back to the city.

Pixóptico

"Autropelo" is a series incorporating color and dealing with superposition. It is inspired by the much-villified practice of "atropelo" (the term is used when a grafitti or tag artist paints over the work of someone else, its literal meaning in portuguese is "being hit by a car"). In this case because I'm painting over my own work it is an auto-atropelo, or "Autropelo". The first Autropelo was done in 2009 as a commission for Ibirapuera, the biggest park in the city of Sao Paulo, on the top ring of a water tower structure. Another Autropelo series was painted on canvas, removed from the street environment to be exhibited at the Rojo Gallery in Barcelona in 2010

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Autropelo

"Pixotosco" is inspired by the tagging tradition of São Paulo called "pixação" - quick, black & white writings on walls sometimes nearly inaccessible, cryptic letters bordering illegibility featuring a very strong graphic identity. 

As a type designer I have embraced this aesthethics to create my own tags on different spaces in and out of the streets. "Pixotosco" became my street art tag since 2005 and it means "rude tag" in Portuguese. 

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