Alvaro has been a designer and visual artist for over 20 years, building a solid experience as a graphic designer, videographer, photographer, and web designer for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and private clients, in Brazil and Canada. The artist has participated in group exhibitions with Art Souterrain, Le Center Dare-Dare and the Fantasia Festival in addition to having collaborated with Tohu and Éditions du Noroit as a designer, which can be visited here: Alvaro designer.
Since 2021, Alvaro has been developing a new creative path in visual arts. More precisely, the artist creates visual compositions through the appropriation and diversion of pre-existing images with the language of graphic design. His painting practice is part of the pop art movement using industrial image production techniques.
In his creations, Alvaro adopts a critical stance on the printed image through the hybridization of screen printing, stamping and stencil techniques by creating unique images made from the same matrices. The artist embodies voluntary disobedience on technical gestures, which cause blunders and intentional errors, as well as other forms of subversion of the precept of the perfectly realized image.