Artists
Leonor  Brilha (Portugal)


Contact Artist
 

 After Albrecht Durer 
 

 After Albrecht Durer I 
 

 After Hans Memling 
 

 After Jacopo Pontormo 
 

 After Johannes Vermeer 
          
 

 Face Without Soul I 
 

 Face Without Soul II 
 

 Identity map I 
 

 Identity map II 
 

 Identity map III 
          

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Leonor Brilha

born in Portugal, 1982. She lives and works in Lisbon.

She studied licenciature in painting in Fine Arts University in Lisbon
 
 Work for Arte Periferica Galerie in Centro Cultural de Belém - Lisbon.  Website:  www.arteperiferica.pt


Statement about my work:

It is immediately disturbed by heaps of an extrinsical sensations originating an indistinct magma of inconsciousness and experience that fills it as if it were an empty mould, that I took faces to create my paintings.
Their strokes whose initial identity is explicit,in the course of my work have changed into mere gestures announcing new types of shape and intirely free from their objective origin. Here they appear as a kind of chromatic catastrophe which disguises and distorts the physionomical features of a face.
It is a furious suffering and a terrified expression of victims and witnesses of someting, whose effect is a cruel feeling of tragedy. These faces are composed of human and animalistic elements, all of them ambiguous because of their deformity. They are so fathenless and enigmatic that they prevent the understanding of any explicit meaning. Any effort to find out the intention behind the morphology of these creatures by means of a logical thought will fail, will fall into pieces, admitting that these paintings lead us to an unknown territory where the borders of convencional logic don�t exist.

The strength of the human creature is inseparable from an unconscious vulnerability like the one that the animal, even the most powerful and fiercest of animals, can unwillingly reveal to the hunter who is watching it. Like the primitive hunters or predators, the painter attacks the canvas not only to defend it but also to feed himself having watched it from the most original and rarest point of view, in oder to explore its weakest point and beat it. The act of painting is a battle that reveals the features as scars that are afterwards dissipated in the image. Extrapolated from any racional link and changed by their own expressive content, they assume the new identity of the figure.