15/07/2018 Bárbara Gual
Tiago Segundo is another artist from the Verdandi project! The 24-year-old, native of Rio de Janeiro, started his contact with drawing since he was a child, but it was in 2012 that he turned his focus to the visual arts during his course of Art History and some others free courses with a focus on this theme. Among the techniques that he has already used are photography, painting and drawing. In this last one, he produce with techniques such as watercolor, acrylic paint, collage, wood engraving and silk screen. The artist still does artworks like installations, video and performance.
Tiago sees art as part of himself, not as a gift but as an aptitude.
“I think people are born with skills and a different and special eye for each thing, which will be improving with the passage of time. I feel that I was born with this different eye for art “
Tiago draws inspiration from countless artists and stylists. In an interview with VHMOR Artes Visuais he tells us a little bit about these influencers.
“(…) I think Andy Warhol and Louise Bourgeios. Andy Warhol for his criticism of the mass market system, and even so, its inclusion in it in a paradoxical way. Louise Bourgeios by building the body from memories, metaphors and psychological disorders. In style, I bring Alexander Mcqueen and Thierry Mugler. Alexander Mcqueen for the insanity applied to the concept, and Thierry Mugler for the sculptural form applied to the style. “
Among the concepts used by the artist are the paradox, irony, and in the artist’s own words “the perverse
breach of expectations”.
Below you can read the statement wrote by the artist.
“My visual research brings with itself strangeness, ironies and duality. It is also possible to visualize a perverse breach of expectations: beauty and horror, passivity and obsession, brutality and fragility, pain and pleasure, sacred and profane, time and chance.
Why thinking about breaking expectations? It is expected in a painting, a sacred work, perfect and eternal beauty, a body in its full condition, human ingenuity, being fashionable, as if they were promises of happiness. All these questions, throughout the research, are placed in a way that, always happens something that rupture, that breaks with the expected, like the sand that is left of our hands, or like a “pull of carpet” causing an epiphanic moment and something is revealed to us, a new possibility is opened.
Much of the production is in Nanquim and Watercolor, techniques that, for me, complement each other in the artworks. In Nanquim, the ink is highly graphical, aggressive and opaque, while in the watercolor is fragile and translucent, and therefore practically opposite. Thus the plastic language, in other words, the way I work on the paper and on the screen, is used as a metaphor for the theme I explored, precisely because it deals with paradoxes and oppositions. Still, I have works in acrylic paint, xylography and silk screen.
Therefore, what results from the artworks surpasses ironic analysis and criticism, leaving an open possibility for the artwork to lead us beyond expectations and promises of happiness. What next? After that, we have the hybrid between breaking those expectations, which is a turbulent moment, and the triumphant occasion after that rupture. “
The work of Tiago Segundo instigates us to think about various issues of the modern world and innumerable dogmas and rules imposed upon individuals. It brings the “perturbation” that art can cause, considering psychological and social aspects involved. It is a work that brings both obsession and serenity, the break with everyday ideals and the constant provocation before the ready and already constructed ideas to the detriment of the deconstruction of thoughts.
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