Alex Benedith

creating the dark, surreal and nostalgic

Alex is a Brazilian artist, a Latin American influenced by figures such as Salvador Dalí, Grant Wood, and Vincent van Gogh, passionate about surrealism and its nuances, digital manipulation, and the idea of creating entire worlds through art.

Part of the Top 100 Artists of 2024, a selection evaluated by judges from the MoMA, Christie's, and HUG. With works exhibited more than 20 times across different countries, including solo exhibitions, he also has pieces in the collection of Cozomo de' Medici and other major international collectors. He works as an art director, designer, content creator, and engineer, combining 2D, 3D, and digital painting to build his own universe.

His works, in a surrealist manner, portray the Umbras in an obscure, nostalgic, and dreamlike way. The Umbras are versions of how he sees human beings and their nature: shadows of what they are, what they want to be, what they are, and what they will never become. It is man in his truest form, capable of revealing himself without hiding behind masks.

Feelings such as anger, happiness, loneliness, joy, peace, and hatred are able to paint the human being and imprint an image of them, a kind of emotional woodcut, their shadow. Umbra.

For more than 10 years creating art and 6 years working as a digital artist, Alex has been slowly building his own vision of what it means to be human through art.

Transforming 3D To 2D

I started years ago as a photo manipulation artist.Over time, I discovered 3D, learned digital painting, and gradually began merging all of these languages together. That’s how this style was born.

From 3D to 2D, I explore everything I can within the software. I model, render, export, and finish each piece manually, painting light, atmosphere, texture, and shadows until the image carries exactly the feeling I want to convey.

My process does not come from fixed rules. It comes from experimentation, from testing, distorting, rebuilding, and transforming ideas into something that exists between the surreal and the emotional.

Each work becomes a mixture of technique and instinct, an attempt to transform references, emotions, and visions into images that feel alive, unsettling, and memorable.I create for the passion of creating.

Everything else comes after.

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Lamb's Silence

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Fracture

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the solitude of a man

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