Alex D. da Silva

"I remember accompanying my father - Quirino da Silva, a long-established artist who was an older man when I was born - on outings to the coast and the outskirts of São Paulo to paint. My brief apprenticeship with him, was marked by visits to his friends at their studios, full of objects a child shouldn’t touch, the air strongly scented of turpentine, colors and mystery."

Alex is moved by landscapes that change, whether by people or nature itself. Selecting images from different times and places, he composes an emotional combination of these elements. Thew intention is to question the usual memories and narratives associated with images. Rarely does the final result resemble his initial vision, for the process is to find harmony through editing but also embracing the random mark and permitting the paint to go where it chooses until the expression becomes as truthful as it can be.