“Paintings by Daniel Lannes are omnivorous. They feed on various sources of images and techbiques to fuel their originality and gain bodily weight. Scenes from documentaries or from the imagination are re-invented and laid out on broad surfaces. Some are decades or centuries old; others produced only yesterday. The historical and the banal interest Lannes in equal measure and he thus breaks down the conventional hierarchies that have scant regard for the banal.”
Moacir dos Anjos
Painting since his childhood, Lannes started to dedicate himself professionally to artistic production in 2003, the year he began studying painting with Chico Cunha and João Magalhães at Parque Lage School of Visual Arts, in Rio de Janeiro. At the same institution he also studied with Fernando Cocchiarale, Anna Bella Geiger, José Maria Dias da Cruz, Reynaldo Roels, and Viviane Matesco.