Works
Biography
Luciano Maia seeks to anchor himself in the mythologies of the "encantados" (spiritual entities) and the legends of his childhood in Pará, drawing on the recurring elements of his daily life transformed into symbols – such as the fish, the ox, the table, and the family – to compose a mosaic of meanings that reflect his everyday experiences, surroundings, and ways of relating to reality, including affections, memories, work, states of mind, and life perspectives.
His figures, sometimes undefined and nebulous, evade the colonized gaze that immediately categorizes what it sees. The notes of surrealism translate into a fantastic expressiveness that spills out from the surface of the canvas, expanding the painting. The ceramics, which engage in dialogue with the artist's pictorial mythologies, are also constructed expansively, layer upon layer, much like the drawings on paper that seem to float in space.
In these works, the use of color, the interplay between brightness and opacity, and the overlapping elements contribute to a certain magical dimension, resembling a cult object of something that remains yet to be fully defined.
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