Focus on Rafael Silveira / Reprise of “Yumei” by Fuco Ueda

Dorothy Circus Gallery is proud to present, together with the project Unlock the Vision, a double show of international artists: the exceptional Pop Surreal combination of the artworks by the Brazilian Rafael Silveira and by the Japanese Fuco Ueda. Their artworks will invade the splendid venue of the Hotel Butterfly, to introduce you in a world where dreams come true.
Rafael Silveira invites the spectator to leave all the daily paradigms at his back and to start walking in the artist’s ironic reality: a parallel dimension with a vintage taste, where lingerie, tattoos, skulls, music and food explicitly represent the artist’s stream of consciousness.
The artist expresses the fears, anxieties and emotions of his characters through an explosion of symbols and objects inspired by comics, classical representations and horror stories giving birth to sceneries that catch the spectator and bring him/her in their unreal dimension.
Silveira’s artworks are a splendid mix of Surreal art with the Pop component: those are bizarre sceneries, unconventional landscapes populated by fantastic figures, where nude female bodies become containers of gazes, multicolored flowers recall the style of botanical flowers of the XVIII century and the pelicans with their lamp-head give shape to male profiles. Here a woman with an ice cream body and the posture that recalls a classical statue, becomes a visible analogy of the ephemeral of the human body.
An amazing painting style free from every kind of logic and rational need, provocative and surreal at the same time, the perfect description of a dream. It goes beyond the limit of imagination through pallid and elaborate tonalities and brings us into the surreal jungle of the artist’s mind.
Fuco Ueda’s imaginary works are valued in the same way, and they show similar mysterious compositions that allow different levels of interpretation.
Her paintings disclose vibrant colors contrasting each other by creating the effect of a photo negative: they connote a “floating world”, a surreal vision where you can find yourself completely submerged by images and figures that go beyond your rationality.
Poetic elements of Fuco’s paintings, such as the marine fauna or flowers assume gaudy nuances, while, delicate female figures inspired by manga, float in lavender skies emerging from the fog or from evocative sea bottoms. Fuco Ueda narrates through a unique and recognizable style, depicting a world whose nature faces a forced metamorphosis and where doubt endures: there is a constant swing between the earth, where the morning air tastes like cherry-trees, or a world devoid of gravity, where lightness and freedom from every material limit dominate.

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