黑料不打烊

Galeria Nara Roesler will host a show featuring the recent production of Brazilian art icon, Antonio Dias. The selected pieces are part of the artist鈥檚 recent production and demonstrate the strength and freshness of the work of Dias, who continues to restlessly research on an organic painting that is alive and in consonance with the present. About Dias鈥� paintings, art critic Sonia Salztein wrote: "Antonio Dias鈥� recent set of paintings follow the path chosen by the artist as of the mid-1980s. These works confirm procedures that were characteristics of what he began to do at that time." What we see are assemblages of chaotically put together juxtaposed and superimposed paintings that deconstruct the two-dimensional notion of painting by means of its volumes and its irregular contours. 

Nevertheless, the alternation of framing and surface is not the only aspect that subverts the traditional pictorial quality: in the seemingly monotonous patterns printed in each module by the irregular pigmentation and almost left to their own devices as a result of the deposition of volatile material 鈥� pigments, mineral elements, agglutinants 鈥� Dias creates chromatic units that constitute a set that is similar to the pieces of a mosaic, forming deceitful visual nuances that fool the eye by abruptly rupturing color temperatures and organic patterns. By means of this multitude of converging actions, the artist makes the pictorial procedure itself more complex, which even consciously opens space for chance to act. Dias frustrates the expectation of the gaze in a movement that awakens the spectator who is used to the harmony and the perfection typical of the industrial and technological world.