Bambi's breakfast #15 Painting

Statement “The emptiness of our societies is offset by excessive consumption of images.” Ortega y Gasset, in the text “The dehumanization of art”, warns of how the rectangular geometric architecture of cities leads to the progressive removal of the human figure from the life of abstract artists, forcing them to consume images through the television screen to find balance with their more human side. On the other hand, excessive consumption leads the viewer to perform a ritual of humanization, turning the mobile phone into a kind of “main object” close to transcendence. Or unconsciously, our societies ironically inflict on themselves a sustained self-healing in the theories of chromotherapy, using the screen and its beams of light to heal themselves. Moving chats and social networks into a resource and a desperate attempt to show us our emotions. My art is thus articulated through the appropriation and repetition of emojis that flood the communication made through whatapp, messenger, snapchat, among others. I painted the space between a retro comic book filled with patterns, signs and indexes, formerly belonging to the universe of Warhol and Roy Litchenstein, where the icons gained immortality and a virtual pop, which interacting with each other, recontextualize creating current and closer discourses to our social reality. I work on collective memory, visual communication and fictional virtual space by painting the non-real and the virtual, using the color of the spectrum with healing power. (chromotherapy). I am interested in the full/empty binom and the large/small, the silhouette and its relationship with absence and loss, capturing memories through a textured painting. In contrast to a fading and nuanced painting that announces the decay and collapse of pre-existing social models and norms. I painted thus the immortalization of the ephemeral and the poetry in painting. by Pedro Almeida, 2023

Painting:Acrylic on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:110 W x 180 H x 1 D in

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