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CUTOUTS, 2016 MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS 51.1X51.1X1.5 IN. | 130X130X4 CM. CUTOUTS, 2016 MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS 70.8X62.9X1.5 IN. | 180X160X4 CM. 
INVITED ARTIST CUTOUTS, 2016 MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS 51.1X51.1X1.5 IN. | 130X130X4 CM. CUTOUTS, 2016 MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS 51.1X51.1X1.5 IN. | 130X130X4 CM. 
CUTOUTS, 2016 MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS 51.1X51.1X1.5 IN. | 130X130X4 CM. 
CUTOUTS, 2016 MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS 51.1X51.1X1.5 IN. | 130X130X4 CM.

PINTOMEIRA

Lives and works in Braga, Portugal
www.pintomeiragallery.com

Pintomeira, holder of a multifaceted career (17 themes until
2020), presents here some artworks of his 14th theme,
denominated Cutouts. The words from the verb “to cut out”
were agglutinated in order to substantivate the agglutination
to the word “cutouts”. The artist used a distinct mixed media
technic (cut and glue), more comprehensive and more
elaborated. He paints or draws his shapes, mostly faces, with
acrylic or graphite pencil, on a non-assembled canvas. Then,
using scissors, he cuts it, randomly, in different pieces. These
fragments are, then, ordered on the floor of his studio, until
he reached the final composition. All these pieces (canvas),
being ordered that way, are then glued to the main canvas,
now mounted on a wooden grid. In the next phase the glued
shapes and the spaces between are worked with acrylics,
using drippings, layers, textures, and lines. The aesthetical
composition expresses degradation, destruction, aging, and
the vision of a deteriorated mural painting, or ancient frescos
ruined by the time or by man’s negligence.

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