Johanna Perret
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Fabio Almeida was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1968
and settled in the UK in the early 1900’s where he studied
painting at the City Lit Institute and Communication Art & Design
at the Royal College of Arts in London.
His recent work draws on the legacy of the modernist movement
so prevalent in his native South America during the immediate
post war period, the aesthetics and vision of architects and designers
such as Oscar Niemeyer, Lina Bo Bardi, Roberto Burble Marx to name a few.
Form the building blocks of Almeida’s visual language his work is laced
with a layer of realism and current préoccupations of present
day, especially those related to life in large urban areas.
FABIO ALMEIDA
Almeida’s large scale abstract collages, created using hand
painted papers, varnish and markers offer playful compositions
referencing design and architecture, but the materiality and texture
of the surfaces remind us of more mundane aspects of urban life: rough walls, pavements, digital glitches, even pollution.
It is in the tension between the pleasing aesthetics of the compositions
and the physicality of the layered surfaces that Almeida’s paintings come to life.
Laurent Delaye Gallery
A Maison Gabriel Paris collaboration
On view 26 rue du Mont Thabor, Paris 1er