Adriano Ribeiro

My artwork is conceptually formless, an empty space in which occasionally I take a flamethrower into and start all over again, with love. This is what I’ve been doing for the past decades. It’s my job, my passion, my duty. I am really grateful and honored to the universe for this assignment.
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I was born in the Amazonian city of Belém, Brazil. From the year 2000 I live in Italy.
• I paint, sculpt and draw since I was a child, figurative and then changing to abstract art.
• I studied philosophy and industrial design, I am essentially a self-taught artist.
• I work in my green sunny farm-studio in the heart of the amazing Sicilian countryside.
• Fluent speak: English, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian.
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ARTIST STATEMENT-
I intimately think that building a visual subject is above all immediacy, I am a pretty rational and pragmatic person consequently I do not place through my art cultural contradictions or philosophical reflections, I’m into the pure visual zone of my work most of the time.
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In other words I’m just looking for a trice of emotion in the abstract beauty, something that I can read on the fly, and cry and laugh without having to identify myself ...