"O homem que coleciona OVNIs" ("The Man Who Collects UFOs" Painting

Born in 1961, in Recife, Pernambuco - Brazil, Ricardo A. B. Pereira graduated in Painting from the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (EBA-UFRJ). At the same university he did his master's and doctorate in Visual Arts (History and Art Criticism). As a professor of painting at EBA-UFRJ, he has diversified work in the fields of painting, woodcuts and ceramics, having held over 25 individual exhibitions and numerous collectives. He has works in private collections in Brazil and abroad, having received several awards throughout his career. Her favorite themes are directly related to Afro-Brazilian culture, ancestral arts, myths, fantasy, folklore and Brazilian popular culture, but lately she has been working on transcendental themes related to planetary changes and contacts with extraplanetary civilizations and other spatiotemporal dimensions. He works with several techniques in his paintings, highlighting the combination of oil paint with wax paste and traditional encaustic. In engraving, his favorite technique is woodcutting. In ceramics he produced vases, plates and sculptures, coloring his pieces with engobes and sometimes enamelling them. His art has its own identity, recognizable in its various creative phases. His motto is: “Art can improve the world”.