launching my new collection of small works
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- Apr 14
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I am pleased to launch this collection which is part of a wider body of work I have been slowly forming since the beginning of the year. The small works on canvas and paper are rooted in an intuitive and process-driven approach to abstraction and were developed in parallel to large scale works, serving as starting points of gestures and compositions for the bigger paintings, but also serving as little pieces of storytelling in their own right. These are self-portraits, mostly of objects or places, which are always present in the narratives of my work.
At the studio I feel a deep engagement with materiality, exploring the dynamic possibilities of oils and acrylics through layering, drawing, and rearticulation, looking at Brazil, its land and urban realms in its history, culture and nature, but also breathing the short-lived memories from here in Italy. Thus, the works are expansive and densely coloured, serving as meditations on objects, cities, architecture, nature, the body, and the act of painting itself.
Each work evolved undergoing countless transformations as I navigate the tension between destruction and resolution, freedom and control. They are very free, as I move towards an irresistible urge to draw my paintings, using fast-paced gestures with pastels and oil sticks to quickly form solids, lines and patterns, embracing an open-ended dialogue with the materials on the surface of the canvas or paper (an old favourite, in its rough texture and kind permeability), allowing them to dictate their own direction as they shift and breathe. The surfaces become a site of negotiation, where time, texture, and gesture coalesce into compositions that feel alive—almost sentient. Rather than imposing a fixed outcome, I position myself as both maker and observer, responding to the paintings as they emerge through the process.
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