Delson Uchôa | Exercícios Geométricos Vingados
Past exhibition
Overview
Delson Uchôa
Tutti-frutti, 2021
Acrílica e resina sobre lona | Acrylic and resin on canvas
125 x 140 cm | 49.21 x 55.12 in
After more than ten years, Delson Uchôa is returning to present his work at Luciana Brito Galeria. This time as a visiting artist, the Alagoan is presenting a brand-new group of six paintings made in 2020 and 2021, produced during social isolation. In this period, the artist concentrated his production on small-scale works, whose idea, according to him, “arose naturally based on the forced living at home.”
Research around light continues to guide Delson’s production, which this time, even while combined with the popular geometry of the Northeast, evinces stronger signs of constructivist geometry, thus dialoguing perfectly with the architecture of the vintage modernist residence. The “solar stridence,” a characteristic of the region of Maceió (AL), is applied by the artist to a palette of original colors used by American indigenous peoples in their Feather Art. Nature and its hues – always present in Delson’s investigation – come out of the artist’s studio, located amidst the natural environment, and are inserted into the landscape design by Roberto Burle Marx.
Besides the paintings, the artist is representing the sculpture Sem título [Untitled] (2015), which he calls a painting-object. The work was made with small parasols of green polyester (which he calls “dry paint”), acquired at street markets in Caruaru. In an allusion to a chlorophyll molecule, the work is part of an older series by the artist, where the painting is constructed through the combination of “dry paint” colors.
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