The Bahiano 2006 Pastel on canson paper (2006) Painting by Franchelor

Visual artist, spends much of his childhood in Santa Catarina. Begins his studies with art in 1996 at the IUB University in São Paulo, in the course of artistic and advertising design. Plastic artist specialized in product design and interior design. For over 25 years, he has been producing his intense work as an artist and product designer. Franchelor, as he is known, has improved some creation techniques, works of art, sculptures, and product design. Always using his striking stroke, he mixes several styles of drawing, painting, engravings, collage, editing, and digital image treatment. Standing out with some specific characteristics in his numerous pieces of art, developed and adapted to all kinds of formats. It presents to the consumer market new materials in its compositions, among them expanded polyethylene, laminated wood, MDF and ACM, and fluorescent ink prints. He uses various materials in the composition and development of his unprecedented light sculptures made of carbon steel. Among some of his individual exhibitions, he held in 2007 in the gallery casa + arte, SC Brazil the project of his oldest original works, painted in 1992, 1994 and 1996. The following year (2008), he was invited to exhibit his work in the Agora Gallery in New York (USA). In 2009 it was time to put his work with the series Cats & Dogs in the Redbubble gallery in Melbourne, Australia. In 2010 he held a group exhibition at the late Mali Villas-Boas Gallery, (In Memoriam) Itaim Bibi in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

• Nationality: BRAZIL
• Date of birth : 1978
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Brazilian Artists