EDUARDO SANTOS: FOLKLORE
There is no memory without touch. The first memory forms at the mouth of the infant and evolves swiftly through tactility. This sensory recall is known as haptic memory and though it's impact is fleeting, it builds over time. The eyes describe texture but the hand absorbs it. Our bodies recall the immediate terrain as inviting or hostile, yielding or sealed through hungry senses. What is felt is not forgotten.
As the work of Eduardo Santos evolves, the physical presence of his primal themes have become more intense. These new works possess a sculptural geology that evokes three dimensional maps, surging landforms and cooled hardened magma. Their palette is torn between an aquatic mineral spectrum and the rubbed raw pinks of flesh. The cleaving between skin and crystal, seabed and stone create a de-stablising drama at the core of each painting. Inspired by the bedrock of his indigenous childhood in Brazil, his forms are his folklore. To apprehend the work is to meet memory: a private lexicon of interior landscapes that evoke the earthy environment of life at the river's edge and the ever present vast interior of the forest and the sea.
Folklore VI (commission), 2017
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
87 x 87 cm
Folklore XIII, 2017
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
81 x 81 cm
Folklore II, 2017
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
180 x 160 cm
Folklore VII, 2017
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
190 x 165 cm
Folklore - Land and the Dream (commission), 2017
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
200 x 400 cm
Folklore IX (commission), 2017
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
87 x 87 cm
Folklore I, 2017
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
180 x 160 cm
Folklore XII, 2017
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
80 x 64 cm
Folklore XI, 2017
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
80 x 64 cm
Folklore VII, 2017
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
190 x 165 cm
Folklore XVI, 2017
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
180 x 162 cm
Folklore III, 2017
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
180 x 150 cm
Folklore V, 2017
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
168 x 125 cm
Folklore IV, 2017
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
168 x 125 cm
Folklore X (reworked), 2017
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
180 x 150 cm
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