Caetano De Almeida (b.1964, Brazil)
De Almeida has been creating optically-charged, patterned abstract paintings for the last 12 years. At first glance, his canvases are prismatic, highly controlled arenas of chromatic synergy; examined inches away, the viewer encounters a surface encrusted with evidence of the artist's hand: dimpled strokes, pooled paint, torn remnants of tape, vectors produced via controlled drips of fluid acrylic. Following the traditions of Brazilian Modernism and Tropicalia (Antropofagia), de Almeida culls freely from the paradigms of American and European abstraction and renders something distinctly Brazilian: networks of lines evoke Sao Paulo's highway glut, interwoven grids tuned with the birght palette of a Bahia tourist bag. A painting's ostensibly mechanistic systematizing belies its true identity as purely handmade object: each picture is intuitively conceived from scratch with the rudimentary materials of pencil, tape and acrylic paint.
artworks in collection
Carlito Carvalhosa
—b.1961, Brazil
1 WorkLeda Catunda
—b.1961, Brazil
2 WorksMarcos Chaves
—b.1961, Brazil
3 WorksAdriano Costa
—b.1975, Brazil
2 WorksIran Do Espirito Santo
—b.1963, Brazil
1 WorkOs Gemeos
—b.1974, Brazil
1 WorkRodrigo Matheus
—b. 1974, Brazil
1 WorkMarcelo Moscheta
—b.1976, Brazil
1 WorkVik Muniz
—b.1961, Brazil
2 WorksPaulo Nazareth
—b.1977, Brazil
1 WorkRodolpho Parigi
—b.1977, Brazil
1 WorkJosé Patrício
—b.1960, Brazil
1 WorkThiago Rocha Pitta
—b.1980, Brazil
1 WorkRegina Silveira
—b.1939, Brazil
2 WorksDelson Uchoa
—b.1956, Brazil
1 WorkLaura Vinci
—b.1962, Brazil
1 Work
Edgardo Aragon
—b. 1985, Mexico
1 WorkEduardo Basualdo
—b.1977, Argentina
5 WorksDiego Bianchi
—b.1969, Argentina
1 WorkCarlito Carvalhosa
—b.1961, Brazil
1 WorkLeda Catunda
—b.1961, Brazil
2 WorksMarcos Chaves
—b.1961, Brazil
3 WorksAdriano Costa
—b.1975, Brazil
2 WorksNicola Costantino
—b.1964, Argentina
4 WorksAbraham Cruzvillegas
—b.1968, Mexico
1 WorkIran Do Espirito Santo
—b.1963, Brazil
1 WorkMatías Duville
—b.1974, Argentina
1 WorkOs Gemeos
—b.1974, Brazil
1 WorkSebastian Gordin
—b.1969, Argentina
1 WorkCarlos Huffmann
—b.1980, Argentina
2 WorksGabriel Kuri
—b.1970, Mexico
1 WorkSze Tsung Leong
—b.1970, Mexico
1 WorkLaura Lima
—b.1971, Brazil
1 WorkLos Carpinteros
—est.1991, Cuba
1 WorkMateo López
—b. 1978, Colombia
2 WorksJorge Macchi
—b.1963, Argentina
1 WorkRodrigo Matheus
—b. 1974, Brazil
1 WorkJorge Mayet
—b.1962, Cuba
1 WorkMoris (Israel Meza Moreno)
—b. 1978, Mexico
5 WorksMarcelo Moscheta
—b.1976, Brazil
1 WorkVik Muniz
—b.1961, Brazil
2 WorksLavar Munroe
—b.1982, Bahamas
2 WorksPaulo Nazareth
—b.1977, Brazil
1 WorkJorge Pedro Nuñez
—b.1976, Venezuela
1 WorkDamian Ortega
—b.1967, Mexico
2 WorksBernardo Ortiz
—b.1972, Colombia
2 WorksRodolpho Parigi
—b.1977, Brazil
1 WorkNicolas Paris
—b.1977, Colombia
1 WorkJosé Patrício
—b.1960, Brazil
1 WorkPedro Reyes
—b.1972, Mexico
3 WorksNicolas Robbio
—b.1975, Brazil
2 WorksThiago Rocha Pitta
—b.1980, Brazil
1 WorkRegina Silveira
—b.1939, Brazil
2 WorksRodrigo Torres
—b.1976, Colombia
3 WorksDelson Uchoa
—b.1956, Brazil
1 WorkErika Verzutti
—b.1971, Brazil
1 WorkAdrian Villar Rojas
—b.1980, Argentina
4 WorksLaura Vinci
—b.1962, Brazil
1 Work