KP PROJECTS is thrilled to welcome Rafael Silveira to the gallery for his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles titled Picturesque Hallucinations.
Rafael Silveira’s work create a world the place pastel hues dance softly throughout canvases whereas weaving tales of caprice and surprise. On this realm of up to date surreal portray, human varieties intertwine seamlessly with the fragile great thing about nature, blurring the traces between actuality and fantasy. The extraordinary transforms into the extraordinary, prompting a sense of concord between the human and pure worlds. In Silveira’s world, the unconscious, or dream-conscious, reigns supreme.
In a tropical panorama titled Dancing to the Music, legs in crimson heels stretch and kind the bending limbs of a weeping willow tree with tooth-roots as a phonographic flamingo wanders close by. One other portray, The Great thing about Small issues reveals a girl, half butterfly, sporting a caterpillar cloak in opposition to pink skies in a area of tall flowers and greenery displaying her metamorphosis. Two portraits, Quietness and Travessia, showcase themes of transcendence inside the creativeness, conveyed by the faces of the 2 girls turning into translucent renderings of the skies and pure wonders behind them. In every of those items, the figures morph or mix into their environment with an uncanny fluidity.
“My work don’t belong to actuality nor to creativeness,” Silveira says. “They dwell in an in-between. A spot between gentle and shadow, thoughts and matter, amidst the wild and the home. Like vegetation slowly protecting a wall, my ideas are overtaken by this psychic vitality. Birds perch within the backyard, simply as visions land upon my gaze. I seize these sudden reveries on the pace of a scribble and, later, with the help of paint and brushes, I have interaction in a kind of taxidermy of delirium, developing psycho-pictorial dioramas that transport the viewer into my psychological landscapes… It’s on this distant psychological intimacy the place I encounter the viewers. And it’s from there that I confront the impermanence of inspiration with the facility that artwork possesses to render one thing immortal.”
Silveira’s distinctive type deftly blends parts of fantasy with meticulous element, creating artworks which are as thought-provoking as they’re visually gorgeous. Every bit invitations viewers right into a realm the place the extraordinary transforms into the extraordinary, a realm the place magnificence and strangeness converge in a symphony of visible poetry and pleasure.
