REPORT FROM A CERTAIN COUNTRY IN THE PLAGUE YEARS Print

One of the characteristics of Contemporary Art is the use, by the artists, of various materials and techniques, even in such a traditional format as painting on canvas. This picture has a background painted with acrylic paint, on which characters and objects have been painted with oil paint. Shadows and volumes were later added with Conté crayon, Posca pen and charcoal. The cotton canvas is mounted on a mdf board with a 3cm wooden chassis, so the work is ready to be placed on the wall. Figuration, three-dimensionality and perspective technically characterize the work, which deals with the political, existential and medical dimensions of Brazil, the artist's country of origin, in these times of pandemic and of rulers who practice a Tupiniquim variant of necropolitics.