Chico Santos

Aproximate the look and train it to see importance, beauty in all that is seen. Probably that must be the central idea of the work of Chico Santos, especially on the most recent ones. And the author does this with the subtlety of his characteristic traits, putting us before the contrast between simple situations or phenomena and the concreteness of what we have defined as obvious and measurable. Confronts us with the duality between nature and city, as someone who wants to show the importance of both to life and life in both. Then, blends the concepts and purposely, it´s not possible to know for sure which one contains or which is contained in this life.
To understand his works, I'd say you need two forms of assessment. At first, one must see at distance, comprising all the composition, the formal arrangement of each cluster of traces. In another, you must look closely, with watchful eyes to capture all the many little details, all openings, paths, relationships, dotted. So, the author allows diferentes interpretations for his paitings, dependent almost exclusively of the observer, which, if not attemp for the title, will be able to get beyond in the thoughts, trying to imagine what exactly is the scene depicted by the artist.
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