BECOPRO / DRAGA
RAFAEL FERNANDES (DRAGA) - Graffiti artist and visual artist. Lives and works in Niterói - RJ.
Draga has worked as a graffiti artist and visual artist since 2012, exploring urban art, its languages and rules, through paintings, sculptures and interactions with other artists. His work looks at issues such as the taboo of apportionment (run over in SP), the identity/ego of the artist, the saturation of layers of information as it happens on the street, among other subjects.
He graduated in Fashion Design (2009). Recently (2023) he did a 3-month residency at FUNARTE/SP with the master graffiti artist OZI (sponsored by the Niterói Municipal Department of Culture).
Draga held solo exhibitions at FUNARTE (2023, São Paulo- SP), Estúdio Lâmina (2023, São Paulo - SP), Centro Cultural Paschoal Carlos Magno (2019 and 2015, Niterói - RJ), Centro Cultural Padre Mugica (2014, Mar del Plata - AR), Liana Brandão Art Gallery (2014, São Leopoldo - RS), among others.
He also participated in group exhibitions at O Lugar | Fábrica Bhering (2024, RJ) Paradoxo Casa Atelier (2024, RJ), House, Style & Art Exhibition (2020, Pop-up Art Gallery, Rio de Janeiro - RJ), Salve Jorge Exhibition (2017, Rio de Janeiro - RJ) , Solidarity Exhibition (2014, CCPCM, Niterói - RJ), among others.
Since his foray into digital arts in 2020, he has participated in exhibiting as an artist at Blockchain Rio (2024, Expo Mag, Rio de Janeiro - RJ), NFT Brasil (2023, Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, São Paulo - SP), Blockchain Rio Festival (2023, Expo Mag, Rio de Janeiro - RJ), Terratronic (2023, Rio de Janeiro - RJ), The TMFA Pop-up Show (2021, Portland - OR) and He also participated as a guest artist to speak at the Blockchain Rio Festival with the Rio Digital Arts Festival. In addition, he exhibited and organized several art exhibitions and events in the metaverse (virtual space).
KLARA KOPI - Visual Artist, producer, jeweler and board member of INA DAO (Organization dedicated to women artists). Lives and works in Niterói - RJ.
Klara works as a producer for the artist Draga (since 2019), where she accompanies the artist from registering for public notices to setting up virtual exhibitions, 3D scanning, creating the website, presentations, among others.
As a visual artist (since 2005), he uses painting and sculpture in the expanded field, photography, video and other languages. His poetic research is related to imperfections, the marks of the passage of time and the observation of nature with termites and other building creatures as a guide.
● OCCUPATION:
Contemporary Arts, 3D Art, Digital Art, Audiovisual, Textile Art, Sound Art, NFT | Crypto Art, Illustration, Singer, Producer, Metalsmith | Jewelry Designer, Translator
Contemporary Arts, 3D Art, Digital Art, Audiovisual, Textile Art, Sound Art, NFT | Crypto Art, Illustration, Singer, Producer, Metalsmith | Jewelry Designer, Translator