EDUARDO SANTOS: NASCIMENTO
"Espereitando pelo seu telscopia o nascimento do cosmos..."
The paintings of Eduardo Santos take a telescopic view of the Cosmos. Terrestrial and Aerial, Oceanic and Volcanic, his works make use of elements which interlock and mutate. These compositions fuse harmony with upheaval. His mastery of organic form and signature use of an icy mineral palette scrub away the established and literal interpretations of the landscape and create instead a terrain that is hybrid.
The paintings of Nascimento evoke diverse zones: ice cap / crater / earth / Saturn / river /cloud. In these works, the aqueous becomes solid, and the monumental distintegrate into veils of cloud and pigment. Inspired always by the primal relationship with nature forged by his childhood in Brazil, Eduardo Santo threads the seeds of autobiography into profoundly abstract work. For this series he looks to submerged memory. As a child he recalled the intense experience of drowning and then being 'reborn' on land:
"Perhaps painting serves as a meditative consolation for the experience of crisis."
As a body of work Nascimento does, on the surface appear aquatic. Yet the influence of cartography, aerial views and geology on these paintings create a textural depth not encompassed by the traditional seascape. Concentric diagonals and rippling furls of pouring paint echo the coiled energy of the spiral. The surface is agile. Here are works that talk about the firmament: The enigma of conception, the constant movement of tides, the glassy void of a sky after a storm. Rivulets and pools of pale colour expand and diffuse the literal dimensions of the natural world. Instead, within a deliberate inversion, he collapses the horizon, pivots the sky, makes the convex concave and literalliy sucks the eye into a centrifugal force field within the paintings' core.
Anna Johnson, 2020
Nascimento 05, 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
162 x 185 cm
Nascimento 26, 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
162 x 190 cm
Nascimento 08, (commissioned), 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
360 x 150 cm
Nascimento 28, 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
162 x 185 cm
Nascimento 03, 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
162 x 185 cm
Nascimento 20, 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
180 x 122 cm
Nascimento 21, 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
162 x 185 cm
Nascimento 27, 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
162 x 190 cm
Nascimento 17, 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
81 x 122 cm
Nascimento 14, 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
90 x 120 cm
Nascimento 06, 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
120 x 160 cm
Nascimento 13, 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
162 x 185 cm
Nascimento 18, 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
162 x 185 cm
Nascimento 07, 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
140 x 140 cm
Nascimento 15, 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
81 x 122 cm
Nascimento 22, 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
80 x 100 cm
Nascimento 19, 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
120 x 160 cm
Nascimento 09, 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
120 x 160 cm
Nascimento 25 (commissioned), 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
46 x 33.5 cm
Nascimento 16 (commissioned), 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
200 x 122 cm
Nascimento 04, 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
170 x 180 cm
Nascimento 02, 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
162 x 185 cm
Nascimento 12, 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
162 x 185 cm
Nascimento 10, 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
162 x 185 cm
Nascimento 11, 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
180 x 110 cm
Nascimento 01, 2020
Oil, acrylic and natural pigments on canvas mounted on board
162 x 185 cm
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