Contemporary visual artist Alex Brewer, better known as HENSE, is one of the international artists that recently visited Italy for this year’s FestiWall.
Titled “Ragusa sun” and painted at the E. Fermi High School, the work is part of a winning project for the European Social Challenge project, a platform and space where social challenges meet powerful and innovative solutions like the recovery of Ragusa’s suburbs.
As in the rest of his work, HENSE incorporates lines, shapes and gestural painting in order to create colourful abstract compositions that in this case dramatically transform the school’s surroundings.
Drone ph: Piero Sabatino
About the artist
Alex Brewer, also known as HENSE, is an American contemporary artist, best known for his dynamic, vivid and colorful abstract paintings and monumental wall pieces. He utilises unique colour and composition in his installations to evoke a bold presence in the varied spaces they inhabit. Brewer, a native of Atlanta, Georgia began his career painting and writing on the walls around the city at a young age. He discovered his love for creating art in public spaces through graffiti in the 1990’s. He produces numerous public works worldwide through a combination of techniques learned through graffiti writing and the formal language of abstract painting.
Author: Fran
Founder and editor of Urbanite. Street Art lover who after the finishing her MA thesis on the Mexican and Norwegian muralist movement in the 1920-50s, developed a fascination for street art and graffiti that eventually led to collaborations with different art blogs, including the creation of this one.
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