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Body landscape VII

Lavalle - 2023

Ink on Montval paper 300g

29,00 cm height x 42,00cm width x 0,10 cm depth

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Lavalle

“I work with the human condition, the fragility of being, life and death – questions about the transitory nature of time and of existence, often using irony.”

The imagination, and memory; vibrantly expressed emotion; symbolism; figuration, with traces of the abstract; mythology; psychology; sexuality: these are all features that mark the work of Luiz Lavalle – and are also intrinsic to neo-expressionism. This movement emerged in Germany in the late 1970s, spreading to Europe and later the USA, aiming to bring back into painting the role of recording and expression of feelings through art, re-igniting features of expressionism, symbolism and Surrealism.

Lavalle points to the work of German artists Gerhard Richter and Anselm Kiefer as two of his most significant references. “I work with the human condition, the fragility of being, life and death – questions about the transitory nature of time and of existence, often using irony,” Lavalle says. He uses mainly oil paint and acrylic, in paintings; charcoal, in drawings; and occasionally, photography.

He achieves poetry with color, texture, superimposition and various pictorial themes and devices. In many of his works there is a tenuous border between figure and background – figurative and abstract; smooth and rugged; fragile/resistant; brilliant/opaque; geometric/organic. Paints with varied ingredients are used to indicate external and internal layers. Transparencies are created using varnishes, providing brilliant, exaggerated colorations, with a deep carnality. His arsenal of resources is wide and diversified, and in this respect also expresses the character of neo-expressionism.

His works are made with a wash technique: acrylic paint is applied to black fabric, then washed with bleach, revealing the image on the underlying medium. Ironically, this washing is an allusion to the ‘social cleansing’ of recent years in Brazil.

In his most recent series of paintings, Lavalle takes a new approach. His Eugênia series, using images from the web, flies to the core of current Brazilian problems. This group of images highlights the present social-political stand-off, presenting deaths and persecutions of local leaders, politicians and communities who have positioned themselves against the prevailing system: he presents the chaotic narrative that Brazilians are living every day.

The reportage photos that serve as the base for the paintings were chosen from the web and worked on by computer. The resulting images of the Eugênia series function as a group, forming a large polyptich, which denounces – and requests reflection on – the violence and oppression of the current system. These works are made with a wash technique: acrylic paint is applied to black fabric, and the painting is then washed with bleach, revealing the image on the underlying medium. Ironically, this washing is an allusion to the ‘social cleansing’ of recent years in Brazil. As in the news, the artist uses keywords to underline the idea of the painting’s subject.

Lavalle is from Curitiba. Born in 1980, he has drawn since he was a child. “I was a much later arrival in a family of several siblings: I had few children around me to play with, and drawing was my main pastime – my friend –” he says. Growing, he never abandoned drawing. As a teenager he did a course in creating comic strips – discovering the Nankin pen, and watercolors. As he tells it, he finished up not doing any comic strips – but spent the whole course creating the book cover.

It was then that he realized that color and paint fascinated him, and that he wanted to work with art, specifically painting. He entered the undergraduate course in visual arts at Paraná State Art College – where he discovered the other passion of his life, teaching.

He has postgraduate degrees in visual arts and contemporary philosophy, and currently works as a visual artist and lecturer in the painting and drawing courses at the Alfredo Anderson Museum.

He has shown in innumerable exhibitions and salons, receiving six awards.

“I believe that art is something that transcends the mundane, because through it, we face the reality around us better, and become more critical and sensitive beings," he says.

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