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#birds
#Efrain Almeida
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#wooden
Photograph by Antônio Extra. All pictures courtesy of Oscar Niemeyer Museum, shared with permission
In O Jardim, Efrain Almeida cultivates the reminiscences of his mother and father’ house within the backlands of Ceará, Brazil. Carved wood creatures populate the gallery at Oscar Niemeyer Museum, showing as if they might buzz and flutter throughout the area. Comprising about 40 sculptures, work, and embroideries, the exhibition reinterprets the intimate, contemplative backyard Almeida loved as a baby.
Using numerous mediums and supplies, the artist first started working in wooden whereas in his father’s studio. “I drew and made the silhouette, and he minimize it on a bandsaw. Then I made the sculpture itself,” the artist says. The 2 had a troublesome relationship, and Almeida discovered that this shared course of was a fruitful level of connection. He provides:
This manufacturing brings the information of the hand—even the best way of holding the piece—and the warmth that the hand transfers to the supplies you’re employed with. This hand can deliver again a form of ancestral reminiscence. All of this, for me, has a relationship of ancestry and the transmission of data by one of these sluggish and silent ritual that’s guide work. A lot of the communication that I start to ascertain with my father is a silent form of alternate.
Almeida continuously returns to the hummingbird as a motif in his work, and on this exhibition, the diminutive creature seems with its beak piercing a lush orange flower. Painted in purples, greens, and oranges, the iridescent chook symbolizes a connection to “rainbow(s), water, and the spirit of the forest,” the artist says, and is a perfect motif for the methods one thing so small can reveal a broader connection to position, nature, and belonging. “These moments,” he provides, “are very expensive and necessary, within the sense of realizing that it’s one thing larger, that it’s a vibration, that it’s a reference to my historical past.”
O Jardim is on view by October 20, in Curitiba, Brazil.
Photograph by Antônio Extra
Photograph by Eduardo Ortega
Photograph by Eduardo Ortega
Photograph by Eduardo Ortega
Photograph by Eduardo Ortega
#animals
#birds
#Efrain Almeida
#sculpture
#wooden
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