The Three Graces Print

This work is part of the "Rebirth" series, the artist's first series of paintings. The work is a reinterpretation in acrylic on canvas of the painting of the same title by Raphael Sanzio. In "Rebirth", the artist pays tribute to the masters of the Italian Renaissance period by presenting reinterpretations of their works in allusion to another renaissance the world will have to go through after the current crisis caused by the pandemic. In Neto's opinion, there is a need for an intense revaluation of the world and models of life and society, in addition to questioning and revising the status quo. An inner search for the most sublime expression of what the human being is capable of performing as co-creator of this world and as aspecies is necessary. And, with the Renaissance as the subject of his first series of paintings, the artist also makes reference to his own rebirth for art after many years of denying himself that path. Upon rediscovering himself as an artist, Neto felt that his need to express himself visually was of vital importance to him, and as he turned his gaze back to art he realized that he had long been in a kind of "Dark Ages" self-imposed through his choices that distanced him from art. It was then that he decided to seek his own rebirth for a less stifling, fuller, lighter and more celebratory life.