Arthur Palhano
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, 1996
Lives and works in São Paulo, SP, Brazil
In his artistic practice, Palhano examines the complex relationship between action and gesture in the context of painting, revealing its multiple historical layers through scraping. Both the gesture and the tools chosen to represent his poetic imagery require a dispute between what is presented as the front and back of the painting, so that they are negotiated as their depths are excavated. His production is intimately related to the desire to expand, reveal and investigate these multiple layers - material and historical - involved in an artistic process that endorses, above all, an economy of matter, in which everything counts. By embracing these aesthetic procedures, the pictorial physicality reveals a conceptual structure that blurs the boundaries between the tangible and the intangible.
