Moises Santos works with painting and installation on the relationship between natural and artificial forms. His canvases, characterized by a great energy of matter and color and by the repetition and overlapping of elements of rounded shape, are a hymn to the vitality of natural forms: although nourished by experiences that refer to the tradition of classical abstraction, the Brazilian - born artist looks at reality as a territory of infinite suggestions and experiments, escaping from any definition regarding his style and his work. In fact, the artist defines himself as an artist in constant evolution and change, who tries to escape any kind of classification.
Moises Santos
Artists
The subjects of his canvases refer to a starry sky, a portion of the universe, a seabed, the reflec tion of water on a surface, or the internal part of a natural organism. They are reflections on the relationship between micro and macro, between forms of the infinitely small and those of the infinitely large, such as the universe. But those of Moises San tos are also visual metaphors of a formal universe characterized by fluidity, instability and an uncontrolled vital energy. With his work, the artist wants to tell the sense of fragility that man experiences every day, that state of insecurity and transience that places him in front of the power of a superior force, that of God or of nature that inevitably shows human limits. humans. “These compositions are a projection of universal journeys in which I express myself through color,” says the artist.
Moises Santos was born in Aracaju, Brazil, in 1972. His love for colors, dance and music soon turned into an expressive urgency which coincided with his arrival in Italy, where he began its first productive season. Today he lives and works in Italy between Milan, where he has his atelier on the Naviglio Grande, and Erba. Distinguished for his personality and for the energy released by his works, already in his first group and personal exhibitions, Moises Santos experimented with mixed techniques, using acrylic, a crylic plaster and oil, to create forms without form. In 2005 he created on the Naviglio Grande in Milan paper small boats, a temporary installation linked to a public art project, the first of a long series of artistic installations that invaded all of Lombardy, Italy and even abroad. He has also exhibited in numerous public and private museums such as the Civic Aquarium of Milan, Castel dell’Ovo in Naples, international art fairs.