ABOUT THE MURAL:

Joining us all the way from Sao Paolo, Brazil for our debut mural festival in 2017, Alex Senna banged out this extra large scale piece that alludes to the secondary purpose of the very first SpraySeeMO Mural Festival (originally called SolaNoir) - the Great American Solar Eclipse! Just like this father-son pair, we were all looking up to watch the eclipse through our special glasses on August 21st.

This wall was generously donated by Pendulum Architecture Firm at 1512 Holmes.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

"The work of Brazilian artist Alex Senna was never about its decorative value or the painterly skills, but about the people it represents and the atmosphere inspired by everyday life. Living in a vibrant multicultural country full of opposites, he reduced his visual language to black and white silhouette-like characters in order to depict the much needed unity of his fellow countrymen. Senna's work often talks about solitude, love, friendship, passion, conformity and family. Recognized for his compelling public interventions, his work is often interacting with the surrounding or creating simple illusions with clever use of light and shadow." - Sasha Bogojev, writer

“"I have always admired certain artists’ ability to reflect life, not as it is, but as we perceive it; where emotions are more indicative of how we view the world than our senses. That’s what art is all about, right? Feeling something. Alex Senna is an artist from São Paulo, whose expressive, lanky characters bring a softness to their urban setting. These characters and their interactions typically revolve around love and relationships, whether it be a romance between an elderly couple, playful young lovers or sentiments of a lasting friendship. Senna’s works invite their audiences into these intimate interactions and evoke a feeling of nostalgia." - Caroline Caldwell, Vandalog

“En El elogio de la sombra, Junichiro Tanizaki desarrolla una idea poderosa: mientras que en Occidente el aliado de la belleza fue siempre la luz, en la estética tradicional japonesa lo esencial está en captar el enigma de la sombra. Borges, en un poema del mismo nombre, intuyó algo similar: la oscuridad se parece, en realidad, a la dicha, pues en ella habita la memoria. La obra del brasileño Alex Senna nos recuerda estas ideas: lo que importa es la perspectiva y la silueta que se forma. Agotado el 2D del grafiti tradicional, Senna ha vislumbrado en la perspectiva una nueva frontera. El arte, como sabemos, es una forma de ver.” - Roberto Wong, El Anaquel