
ABSTRACT
For this exhibition, I have chosen to present a selection of paintings whose main characteristic is that they were all painted using stones. These are brushes whose multiple morphologies and roughnesses make it more difficult than any other object for the painter to master his gesture. My desire was to offer a unity of principle in a plurality of forms. The paintings on show were produced over a period of 7 to 8 years. These works come from very different contexts and reflections, yet a certain homogeneity of purpose seems to emerge.
They also have the particularity of touching on the two opposing poles of my research, which are, on the one hand, a conceptual approach in the construction of a nomenclature of language (as much in a logic of capturing references to the history of Art, as in a quasi-anthropological investigation aimed at identifying the archetypal structures underlying man's innate desire to project himself onto the world). On the other hand, a more emotional and sensitive approach drawing its source from the personal and collective unconscious. Here we see that opposites end up touching and revealing themselves to be of the same nature.
Some of these works embody these aspects clearly as illustrations of these principles, while others are more fascinating for their sensitive dimension, beyond language, as an intuition of the primal condition of Man.
LIST OF ARTISTS
Jofroi Amaral, solo show
AGENDA
14.06 - 30.06.2024
CREDITS
solo show Jofroi Amaral
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