Mabu nº5 Painting

Time for an artist is not linear, it looks more like a spiral or Moebius ring. At this point in my career, I return to the beginning, to the lyrical abstraction of the Japanese school in Brazil, by Manabu Mabe, Tomie Otake, Fukuda and others, which I exercised in almost all the paintings of my first exhibition in 1990 at Cultura Inglesa. Years later, the same theme reappeared in the series Su Chi Song, the Calligrapher. Considering my artistic path from an evolutionary point of view, or at least taking into account the historical changes in style, technique and theme that I have experienced over these 30 years of career as a visual artist, there are interesting novelties in this last two works in in relation to what I had been doing: the increasingly frequent and intense use of curves in combination with straight and constructivist areas; the use of a spatula and oil paint combined with acrylic paint; the production of diluted bases composed with glazes in several layers of paint; the color palette is essentially the same, but used in new combinations and blends. The work was produced with a combination of acrylic paint for the background and oil paint for the textures; it is mounted on a 3 cm deep wooden chassis and ready to be placed on the wall. It can be combined as a diptych with the work As Gastronômincas nº4 (see image).