Henrique
Oliveira
Henrique
calls himself a “painter”. He was raised in his fathers woodshop which is now
located next door to his own art studio now. He has come full circle as far as
location but has moved light years away as far as artistic concept.
He
refers to himself as a painter and he is in a way. If his sculptural works were
considered paintings it would only be in concept. He mostly works large scale
and with wood. His work looks like large frozen forms made of liquid and the
suggested movements of liquid. The painterly forms that he crafts are complex
engineering feats that end up looking like thick three dimensional paint blobs.
These large blob like shapes are much like that of a painter using heavy paint
being manipulated with a pallet knife.
The
way that he thinks is that these scraps of wood are often old and have old
paint or stain on them and this is like brush strokes of a painter adding color
to a canvas that is blank or an under wash which in his work would just be a
unpainted wood. Even the use of different types of wood add to the palette.
Often
the overall shape of his works look like waves and tides. This is to push wood
from its rigid natural form into a more liquid state as mentioned before. Some
of his work looks like cells and amebas and other simple life forms. One work
looks like a large seed with roots growing out of it.
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