São Paulo Brasil
In delicate brushstrokes and passages of color, full of evocations and reminiscences, Guilherme Santos da Silva shows a politically and ethically motivated painting, a plastic response that combines tradition and personal experience – in this case, the family environment in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro – and the history that painting, as a language and process, carries.
A self-taught artist, Guilherme Santos da Silva (Rio de Janeiro, 1987) began his artistic experience by painting walls and façades in an urban context. Inspired by Brazil’s cultural margins, linked to his experiences and family memories, especially his grandparents, migrants from Paraíba who arrived in Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s, he moved on to canvases, in works with subtle personal and social connotations. Guilherme translates his work, made up of subtleties between figures and shapes, between suggestions of landscapes, elements and pure geometric shapes, into harmonious compositions, on planes where color and matter define the state of mind and the contrast with time in the painting. The delicate passages of color and brushstrokes nevertheless carry the force of elements that involve the artist’s biography, in a dialogue between affections and political questioning around narratives of class and belonging from different social strata, notably on the outskirts of large cities such as Rio de Janeiro.
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Guilherme Santos da Silva
Chico, 2023
Óleo sobre linho
55 x 75 cm
Guilherme Santos da Silva
Sonho da Varanda, 2023
Óleo sobre tela
55 x 75 cm
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Guilherme Santos da Silva
A lua doida para reinar, 2023
Óleo sobre tela
65 x 85 cm
Guilherme Santos da Silva
Eu tô contando as horas para te ver, 2022
Óleo sobre tela
35 x 75 cm
Guilherme Santos da Silva
Motivos para ver o mar, 2023
Óleo sobre tela
65 x 85 cm
Guilherme Santos da Silva
Benção Bastião, 2022
Óleo sobre tela
60 x 40 cm
Guilherme Santos da Silva
Canção de partida, 2022
Óleo sobre tela
60 x 80 cm
Guilherme Santos da Silva
Sério diz que não vai embora, 2022
Óleo sobre tela
50 x 60 cm
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Guilherme Santos da Silva
Nenhuma lágrima mais, 2021
Acrílica sobre tela
50 x 110 cm
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Guilherme Santos da Silva
Este teu silêncio, que encerra, 2022
Óleo sobre tela
80 x 100 cm
Guilherme Santos da Silva
Vem cá pra baixo desse cobertor, 2021
Óleo sobre tela
120 x 120 cm
Guilherme Santos da Silva
Saudade daquele feijão de antes, 2022
Óleo sobre tela
120 x 120 cm
Guilherme Santos da Silva
Não volta mais tão tarde, 2022
Óleo sobre tela
40 x 75 cm
Guilherme Santos da Silva
A jangada voltou só , 2021
Óleo sobre tela
30 x 60 cm
Guilherme Santos da Silva
Contratempo, 2022
Óleo sobre tela
60 x 80 cm
