Alexandre Cruz has spent most of his teenage years skateboarding, making zines and recording cassette tapes in Santos, near Sao Paulo. After joining several independent bands, he has formed the band Garage Fuzz where he is the lead singer, in addition to carrying other musical projects. In Sao Paulo, he has started to make stickers and posters urban interventions, adopting the alias Sesper while disseminating his art also through t-shirt graphics for street wear brands and record covers for both major and independent labels, among other products. At the same time, he has focused in developing artworks in his studio, gaining visibility at art shows. The raw materials for his torn collages, which are usually drawing oriented and complemented with painting, come from precious magazine collections, zines, records and letters, as well as from his own digitally produced works, printed through industrial process, originally conceived for other means. Sesper was one of the founders of Most, the influential exhibition space in Sao Paulo during the late 90’s and was one of the curators for the traveling exhibition TRANSFER. As a filmmaker, Sesper directed the documentary RE:Board, the result of an extensive research in Brazilian skateboard’s art history.
