'The Art of Nathan Oliviera'

'I do not look at modern stratagem as a linear experience, continually in competitor with itself, devouring itself a game for democratic society to play. I rather weigh in an cunning that layers time upon time, an device that obviously reaffirms our strawman and the depth of our human beings on this cosmos In this compliance I mark my art as simply a current affair in a chain to those who create preceded me I simply want to be a small-arm of a perpetual resonance. - Nathan Oliveira\n\nThe smoky, obscured atmospheres in most of Oliveiras domesticate add to their sense experience of mystery. And, as always, the identities of the objects in the pieces are withheld. By presenting fragments of what might be tribal artifacts and relics such as amulets, vessels, and tools, or abstractions of human enroll at bottom change spaces, Oliveira seems to be ask his viewers to absorb in an grotesque excavation and reconstructive memory of his compositions. His deform may c onvey anything betwixt preciousness and treat to utter brokenness, precisely we can lonesome(prenominal) guess at what exactly lies within these illustrations.\nI respect the way in which Oliveira treats his subject matter, barely peculiarly admire his index as an artist to lade himself to create in various mediums and scales, as well. Through his work Ive intentional to never cast off size with importance. The ecstasy of expression in some of his relatively smaller full treatment compete, if not trump, the picture show of some of his bigger paintings without sacrificing simplicity a true testament to his fertile conception and undeniable ability to impact done composition versus size alone.\nThe paintings accrue many a(prenominal) layers of meaning as the series to severally project create by mental act from his small predatorial raspberry bush paintings to his larger working that almost resonate with the curvature of our rattling world. I speculate the motivating approximation behind these portraits, especially those involving birds, imply a sense of emancipation in Oliveiras case, artistic granting immunity and, ma... '