Alexandre Orion

Alexandre Orion is an artist that has taken his method of street art down a completely different avenue, with his idea of reverse graffiti, where you clean an area to create an image, in other words selective cleaning. It first started with a project he called “ossario” a name which refers to archaeological sites where Orion sais he “wanted to bring a catacomb from the near future to the present”. The reason for this was it was pollution that and soot from cars that he was cleaning off the walls of a tunnel in Sao Paulo and actively commenting on the harm this pollution was doing to the environment and mankind.
As well as the execution it is mainly the idea that makes this work so powerful and striking and is a very clever and direct way of getting the message across.