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faBIo Cardoso

1958 born in sao Paulo, Brazil
lives and works in Brazil

Looking for the first time at Cordoso’s paintings it seems like there is “nothing to be seen “. Then, among
the superimposition and the removal of chromatic surfaces, we perceived on eclectic vertigo of forms. A ver-
tigo almost baroque. A vertigo of flesh and spirit. Probably art is obliged to disappear to be replaced of course,
by the artificial museum of the devouring publicity But Cardoso does not accept this belief. He subverts the
rules of the game. He re-creates. He re-makes and he allows that something evolves again. In the silence of
these paintings - where stasis and movement ore set against each other as in life -something Tom i1io~ recog-
nizable slowly reappears. Canvases become almost ritual aggregates, clearly anthropological. Inside them do
not exist references to any aesthetic or speculative judgment. Therefore they spore us from further disillusions.
What comes out from them is not a sentiment of absence, but rather a sensation of loss. It is to regain consci-
ousness in front of a question absolutely ethical. Cardoso expresses a vision of the world that doesn’t need to
be seductive to understand it. The pointer tells about the man, and telling about the man he tells of himself. so,
even if his limbs seem consumed by his exhausting wondering through the time of history, his being spitted,
suffered, and dismembered doesn’t surrender yet tells it is still able to dream colors. Once again. As always.
(AndreA PAgnes)
UNTITlEd I, 2000 oil on cAnvAs 70 x 50 cM. / 27½ x 19½ in. 
 UNTITlEd II, 2000 oil on cAnvAs 50 x 120 cM. / 19½ x 47 in.

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