Artist: Adriano Borges Ribeiro

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Adriano was born in 1970 and grew up in Belém; a strange, beautiful city in northern Brazil's Amazon area. He was surrounded by unusual life structures, with amazing and bizarre people including brilliant artists, musicians, story tellers and hunters, all of whom positively influenced him. As for his technique, he mixes sculptural elements, textured surfaces and assembles organic/biological like volumes. He paints them with acrylic enamel and oil, natural pigments collage and then superimpose them all on flat surfaces. He uses acrylic colours, oil, bitumen, sand, wood, micro crystalline and bee waxes, some neutral emulsions, fused plastic and natural resins. The process starts in a considerable solemn manner, everything must appear to be quiet and trivial, a blank surface and him, then the music gets turn on, loud, he rests his mood his thoughts go offline.