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An Argument

It is worth paying attention to the artist's view of his own works. "My concern is to give visibility to the issues related to painting: color, composition, form, matter (...). It is not a conceptual approach. I consider my current work as painting fixing the boundaries of the three-dimensional. That is why I call each of these pieces a painting-object". (1) Fernando Velloso said that in 1989, a moment when he was working with big pieces made with metal sheets, and painting as it is usually understood (working with paint and brushes) was practically non-existent. However, the range of posed questions, excluding the theme of surface building, informs us of an ongoing process since 1987, when his works' visuality already contemplates the opposition between geometry and organic surfaces, although it does so with a gestural bent.

From that moment on, the oscillation between figurative and non-figurative was replaced by a clear preference for the latter. Fernando Velloso himself said that his language "has come to abstraction after 13 years of figurative art in a long and fairly sensible trajectory" (2) an attempt to make a deeper exploration into what he considered essential for pictorial thinking. And important point in this "patient transition" is the series "Muros e Tapumes" (Walls and Planks) in 1987 and 1988. In this series, there was already a frantic juxtaposition of geometrical structure and "scratches, stains, accidental forms that served as inspiration and reference in the treatment of color, matter, and textures".
 
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