20/07/2018 Lívia Fernandes
20/07/2018 Lívia Fernandes
Hermano Ferro was born in Maceió, Brazil, but currently resides in the Brazilian capital and has already worked for more than 10 years in the artistic field. The artist reveals that his motivation to make art is to cross untapped boundaries, besides wishing to see the continued participation of art in his life, as it is so present in his essence.
His paintings are produced with acrylic paint, collages and adhesive tapes, which when removed from the canvas, contribute to a beautiful result. Hermano uses as inspirations for his art Pablo Picasso, Joan Mitchell, Jackson Pollock, Jean-Michel Basquiat, among others. We note the high frequency of some colors as yellow, red, blue and black in the artist’s paintings, which can express aspects and feelings that Hermano has and wants to pass on to his viewer. The titles of his works contribute to the perception and reflection on each one of them, in a way that instead of moderating the imagination, they end up stimulating it. Hermano intends to innovate and surprise the viewer, taking him out of the tedious, repetitive and discolored daily routine.
You can see more about how the artist declares his relationship with art in the text below:
“Art is one of the noblest ways of facing the world. It is like this, making art in a very peculiar way, that I have faced the world since 2006. That’s when the misunderstandings of life led me to find myself in art, discovering the various truths beautifully hidden in their infinite lines. I was born in Maceió but I live in Brasilia, where I exercise the job of trying to sensitize the world through vibrant colors and strong features, both printed in my works. Works that reveal nuances that can go beyond the least attentive glances, bringing to the fore, beyond the courage inherent to some of us, those little secrets, ours or from others, present between the lines of traces, colors and strokes. Graduated in Architecture and Urbanism since 2004, I have always been inspired by the timelessness of life, having the “common sense” as an adversary. Art, at that time, emerged as a way to escape and also as an inspiration. The painting was the turmoil and at the same time the peace for my spirit which is always instinctively restless.
In my career, in addition to the Fineart works elaborated in computer graphic design programs and printed on high quality photographic papers or Canson paper, also of high quality, I execute several paintings with acrylic paint on canvas, cardboard, or on prints in photographic paper or high-quality canson, using brushes of various sizes and formats, as well as spatulas of various types and sizes. Nowadays, my great passion is precisely the end of this path: the paintings of works made with acrylic paint on cardboard, using collages from newspapers and magazines and several other materials, mostly recyclable.
Leaving the comfort zone is the order. More than inspiration, I seek to inspire society to get out of the chaoticness caused by daily sameness and to live with an insertion of colors in everyday urban life, using the transfiguration of palettes, forms and common themes to all as a device to achieve a new meaning to all things that we are too accustomed to see. Finally, between the lines of literature, in which I also have participated as a writer, I was taught to discover the interweaves of life, arranged in a way not so obvious before us, hidden between words and expressions. That’s why I have the abstract as my passion. And through it I can be both an artist and a spectator, letting it reveals its identity and its secrets, astonishing me with the discoveries of my own art. “
Hermano Ferro has a mature and consistent work, with aesthetic and conceptual strength. We hope that everyone will take advantage of the artist’s proposal and that it positively reaches the various spheres of our contemporaneity.
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