Martinho Costa

GALERÍA SILVESTRE


Nuvem, 2024
Oil on canvas
59,5 x 84 cm.

The artist Martinho Costa presents a new set of oil paintings. These are images from the artist’s archive that reflect the landscapes and the world that the painter habitually observes in his daily life. The emphasis is on the particularity of painting, painting as the discipline par excellence of the gaze. Of a gaze in depth, that goes slowly, hurriedly, without narratives, without moral discourse or any other kind of discourse, without anything other than the pure act of presentation of things made into painting.
Martinho Costa takes us, in these paintings, to contemporaneity, to understand what we see in the pause of analysis, and to see and understand things because we are observing them. And this is his journey, to see and understand in new places, with new eyes.