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Denis Sena considers himself as a “cultural workman”. This definition to the plastic artist, ilustrator, sculptor and graffiti artist from Salvador, Bahia (Brazil) synthethize his kind of work with art. Self-educated, Denis learned to do by doing, experimenting different languages – from classic painting to urban graffiti, until digital art – and using unlike supports, such as scrap and pixels from some digital photo, which Denis modifies using image softwares.
Unquiet constructor of ideas and artistic interventions, Denis Sena is a social educator: since the year 2000, He teaches as a voluntary at “Projeto Cidadão” (Project Citizen), na NGO locaten on Cabula I district, the place where He grow up and started his pashion for artes, specially graffiti. Besides Projeto Cidadão, Denis worked as a graffiti teacher in many other organizations in Salvador, at the University of Bahia and either at an Unesco Project.
His graffiti paintings can be seen all around the city os Salvador, in urban walls full of collors dispersed around suburbs, decoration stores, schools, bars, and other places. Since 2005 Denis has been one of the urban artists to integrate Salvador Graffita Project, created by the town hall of Salvador, that hired a group of artists to paint the city.
The artist still works as a designer and has already created to local and international clothes marks, such as “Iguana”, from Salvador, and the canadian “Volunteer”. On the begginning of 2007, Denis spent two months in New York City , where he ministered conversations, workshops and exhibitions at the University, NGO’s and cultural places from NYC and neighborhood. In 2008, the artist exhibited contemporary graffiti at the Modern Art Museum of Bahia, on the work “Present do Passado”, idealized by the artist Naum Bandeira, that invited Denis to participate with him.
O artista ainda atua como designer e já desenhou para grifes de moda como a Iguana, de Salvador, e a canadense Volunteer. Em fevereiro e março de 2007, esteve em Nova Iorque (EUA), onde realizou palestras, workshops e exposições em universidades, ONGs e espaços culturais da megalópole e cidades vizinhas.No ano de 2008, expôs graffitis cosmopolita no Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia,com a mostra Presente do passado,a convite do MAM.
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