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Paths of the Pitangas

Malu Brandão - 2017

Acrylic on canvas

168,00 cm height x 193,00cm width x 0,30 cm depth

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Malu Brandão

“By contrasting light with dark, I create images which can be dramatic, poetic, or provoke some type of indignation”

Malu Brandão takes us to the worlds of the post-impressionists George Seurat and Paul Signac – practitioners of pointillism, or divisionism – who formed (symbolically speaking) – a bridge to the Expressionists. Pointillism employed the construction of an optical image in the viewer’s mind from adjoining shapes or points of color.

Malu has a similar quest for distancing from the detail to arrive at an abstraction: she gives herself up to her unconscious mind and creates by navigating inside a game of lights and colors, with some exploding brushstrokes in which light surges out from an ambience of the unknown. Sometimes she accentuates the complementary colors to cause impact, movement – even to be slightly disturbing to the viewer. “I try to provoke the viewer to feeling a desire to enter the scene, move and walk between the brushstrokes, in some place – it could be the foreground, or the infinite,” she says.

In her most recent series of prints, she creates images that refer to deconstruction of nature through use of clean lines in movement, which refer symbolically to some natural phenomenon: the wind, a sound, a movement. “By contrasting light with dark, I create images which can be dramatic, poetic, or provoke some type of indignation”.

Malu has a similar quest for distancing from the detail to arrive at an abstraction: she gives herself up to her unconscious mind and creates by navigating inside a game of lights and colors.

She moves easily between prints and painting at the same time, depending on inspiration. This results in several different series of works.

As well as diversity of techniques, a feature of her art is the use of colors and textures. It is visible in her progress as an artist and her eye for landscape design – one of her initial passions. She says that any theme can be valid for learning – but that her aim and preference has always been for landscape – so that this has become the central theme of her artistic progress. “All the great masters in the history of art fascinate me as sources of learning and reference, but my aim is not to follow any one of them, but rather to be faithful to my own essence” – she says.

Born in Francisco Beltrão, in the southern Brazilian State of Paraná, she has lived in Curitiba, the State’s capital, since 1970. She began her studies at free courses in drawing and painting in the 1980s. At that time, her investigative attitude and quest for perfect artistic effect led her to the workshops of the Solar do Barão Print Museum (Museu da Gravura Solar do Barão), in Curitiba, where she still produces her work today, printing by hand.

Malu has mastered several print techniques: metal, photogravure, xylography, lithography, and serigraphy. In 1992 she completed the Degree Course in Painting at the Escola de Belas Artes of Paraná State. Five years later, in 1997, she went to the Associazione Culturale Lignarius di Arte e Restauro, in Rome, to specialize in the techniques of Byzantine mosaic.

Since 1983 she has exhibited at Brazilian and international exhibitions, receiving awards at several. Now 68, she continues her creative work full-time, every day. “Today, for me, life and art complement each other,” she says.

Summarizing: “The magic of art is that one is unique in what one aims to do.”

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