“Cartilha para Desajustar o Mundo” by Bisner

28.08.2025 ------> 01.11.2025

"Nothing is in its right place — and that’s exactly what matters."

A solo exhibition by artist Bisner that offers an ironic, affective, and fragmented view of contemporary reality.

Through analog collages and sculptural compositions, Bisner draws on imagery from the past - vintage magazines, cartoons, childhood characters, and pop culture symbols - to dismantle certainty and suggest alternative narratives. This series of new works blends graphic nonsense with layers of memory, producing scenes that seem to emerge from a parallel world - at times familiar, at times unsettling.

The exhibition invites the viewer to misalign their gaze, to unlearn the obvious, and to find beauty in what escapes logic.

Bisner is the artistic name of Alexandre Makiolke, a Portuguese-Brazilian urban artist based in Lisbon. Since 2011, he has been developing a personal visual language through large-scale collage, using everyday materials - such as labels, packaging, vintage magazines, archival imagery and techniques like screen printing, stencil and analog printing - to build compositions that blend personal memory, pop culture and social commentary. Drawing inspiration from his 1980s childhood and the graphic landscape of the street, Bisner turns disposable materials into images that sit between absurdity and recognition, nostalgia and disorientation. His work has appeared in international publications such as "Plastik Comb Magazine" (USA) and the book "COOLLAGE - A Closer Look Book" (Netherlands), and was featured in advertising campaigns for Coca-Cola + Delta Airlines. His art has also been published on the covers of Brazilian magazines such as "Época", "Globo Rural", and "Auto Esporte".