With picturesque views for faces, flowers for the eyes, or nothing however coral above the shoulder, the surrealist portraits of Rafael Silveira convenes points of the human consciousness that covers the fantastic and unusual spectrum. The Brazilian artist describes his work as “a deep dive within the human thoughts”, combining flowers, landscapes and hybrid options in visions that channel humor with a barely sinister.
Silveira’s subsequent solo exhibition, Cosmic agriculture On the up to date DCG, it crosses the “fertile floor of the unconscious,” says the gallery. “With an indication of the pinnacle for pop overdue and the insensitive, his work imagines his thoughts as a backyard by which ideas are seeds and pictures (are) wild flowers.”
Silveira works predominantly in oil, utilizing the panel or canvas as a floor and, sometimes, surrounds her works with ornate wooden frames. The sculptural particulars of the cadres, reminiscent of an anatomical coronary heart within the “Oyeconic couple” or an all-encompassing eye, which melted “a Crooco, however tempo”-“The Crunching of Time” in Portuguese-Icit as talismans.
A lot of Silveira’s compositions begin with a standard portrait composition of the pinnacle and shoulders as a place to begin, however as an alternative of the pores and skin we see a distant horizon, as in “magnetic” or a determine of a determine changed by a coral stem or a column of fireplace. Different items omit the human contour with every little thing in humorous preparations of stay flowers, which suggests vast eyes and extra expressions. Whereas human varieties forged their emotional autonomy whereas converging with their environment, the flora in works reminiscent of “OMG” and “Pleeese” are a depth of astonishment and want.
Cosmic agriculture It opens in London on June 12 and continues till July 10. The present is held on the similar time alongside an exhibition entitled Plural by Flavia Tiberê embroidery artist. See extra on the artist’s website and on Instagram.
