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Acruz Sesper
12+ albums
Lo-Fipunkindiealternativepost-punk
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Alexandre Cruz (SESPER) Born 1973 in Santos, Brazil Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil The work of Alexandre Cruz, also known as Sesper, originates from a mix of various media, such as collage, painting, drawing, prints, and wood cutouts, crating highly intricate textured forms and compositions. Based on experiments made on paper and graphic digital manipulations, his work takes place mainly on wooden panels, incorporating a wide range of objects on the support, making a direct reference to the concept of assemblage. Sesper finds his sources in discarded materials, such as posters, magazines, newspapers, photographs, documents, and obsolete equipment, often given away by friends or belonging to his own archives. His process involves adding layers of meaning to elements that already carried previous sentimental significance. Simulacrum and original are fused to compose scenes of a society self-disoriented by psychoactive substances, short-circuited ideologies, Catholic guilt, and branding. Sesper is a self-taught artist who has started his career in the Brazilian independent music and urban culture scenes. He strongly relates to the “DYI – do it yourself” philosophy, often associated with the alternative and punk rock movements. Sesper spent part of his teenage years skateboarding, making zines, and recording cassette tapes in his hometown of coastal Santos, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. After joining various independent bands, in the beginning of the 1990s, Sespe
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