Sao Paulo Brazil
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
É o mar de quem espera, 2024
Óleo sobre tela
116 x 156 cm
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Guilherme Santos da Silva
Vamo sair de 6 e meia, 2023
Óleo sobre tela
87 x 117 cm
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Guilherme Santos da Silva
Você entendeu que vem de lá, 2024
Óleo sobre tela
116 x 156 cm
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Guilherme Santos da Silva
Essa volta mexe tanto comigo, 2023
Óleo sobre tela
117 x 87 cm
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Guilherme Santos da Silva
Vou de carona, 2024
Óleo sobre tela
23.20 x 31.20 cm
Guilherme Santos da Silva
Sem título I, 2023
Óleo sobre linho
25 x 35 cm
Guilherme Santos da Silva
Vim com ele e nossos filhos, 2024
Óleo sobre tela
78 x 58 cm
Guilherme Santos da Silva
Talvez um dia vamos nos encontrar, 2024
Óleo sobre tela
78 x 58 cm
Guilherme Santos da Silva
Sem título II, 2023
Óleo sobre tela
31 x 23.50 cm
Guilherme Santos da Silva
A gente ta sempre a espera, 2024
Óleo sobre tela
52 x 38.60 cm
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Guilherme Santos da Silva
Margem n.07, 2023
Óleo sobre tela
174 x 234 cm
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Guilherme Santos da Silva
Benção Bastião, 2022
Óleo sobre tela
60 x 40 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
Vem cá pra baixo desse cobertor, 2021
Óleo sobre tela
120 x 120 cm
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Guilherme Santos da Silva
Guia, 2022
Óleo sobre tela
140 x 130 cm
