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Paulo Arraiano

Magma

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EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPE: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS

Paulo Arraiano (1977), with a dual background in fine arts (Arco) and Communication (ISCEM), and with an extensive curriculum of international exhibitions since 2007, is another artist with a connection to Street Art who is already established in Portugal. As his name suggests - "raia" meaning border - he finds himself on a fluid margin between the world of nature and a chaotic and overwhelming urban reality that is present in his murals. In his paintings and installations, a different reality, cosmic and inaugural, asserts itself, following the interrogation of the limits of matter and "non-matter" that he explored in a collective exhibition in 2017. This serigraphy is part of the series of "emotional landscapes", titled "Magma", which is also the name of an impactful mural he created. In this artwork, the vertiginous movement, the colorful warm and cool tones in violent contrasts, enhanced by the flow of blacks and whites, are associated with the representation of a cosmic and primitive energy. An energy capable of giving new life to a society that has forgotten its deepest emotional and mythical aspects, rooted in a solar and cosmic nature.

Maria João Fernandes - International Association of Art Critics (AICA)

Paulo Arraiano

Paulo Arraiano, born in 1977, is an artist whose visual universe resides in a duality that merges the natural and the artificial, nature and urbanity, emergence and creation. In the intersection between these two seemingly opposite and exclusive worlds, Arraiano has managed to establish a new balance that emerges from the primal energy that flows between them and is at the root of his visual dialectic. He seeks society even before the reference to "man". A territory, a body, adrift in flows of energy. Arraiano's artistic work has been focusing on the immaterial territory and its connection with the physical territory: emotional cartographies where the body acts as an extension of nature, through a record based on movement and the fluidity of the connection to the root, seeking to bring to the city the energy it tends to forget. In the artist's work, the detachment from the original artwork initiates an emotional wandering in a new dialoguing body/space, a crossing between urban cartography and the meridians of the human body, aligning premises for a work of "urban acupuncture". Seeking points of conflict, blockages, emotional and energetic flows to be returned to the geographical space. In 2015, as part of the CPS's 30th anniversary, Arraiano curated the exhibition "1/81" at the Côa Museum, for which he created the serigraphs "Sediment S I" and "Sediment S II" at the CPS Studio.
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Artist

Paulo Arraiano

Color

Black, Bright Yellow, Vermillion

Date

2018

Editor

Centro Português de Serigrafia

Format

Large

Image Size (in)

25 x 17.3 in

Total Size (in)

25 x 17.3 in

Orientation

Landscape

Paper

Fabriano 5 GS 300gr Paper

Print Run

150

Technique

Screen print

Style

Abstract, Action Painting

Framed

No