Walter Miranda
Plastic Artist

Walter Miranda and Evaldo Barros exhibit at House of Culture 

1988
Newspaper Diary of Bauru - 01/Apr/1988 - Page 8

Oil paintings on canvas reflecting the poetic and critical sense of art, and poems worked with images that distort reality are the novelties of the exhibition of Plastic Arts and Poetry, from São Paulo artist Walter Miranda and the poet Evaldo Barros from Bauru.

The exhibition will open next Monday, at 8:30 pm with a theatrical performance, and will continue until the 30th, in the Convivência and Art Gallery of the House of Culture.

It will be exhibit 16 canvases and four poems will be exhibited, in a promotion that aims to bring together poetry and visual arts in the same cultural space.

 

                     Walter Miranda

In his work, the artist seeks to address current themes, giving them a poetic and critical sense, with the intention of provoking questions, reflections and conceptualizations in the viewer. Walter always uses a personal and innovative language, despite using traditional techniques; Walter Miranda incorporates elements that are characteristic of our time in his paintings. He uses computer parts in an attempt to obtain new textures and effects. In the series “Brave New World”, the artist addresses the subtle side of the individual's control.

The technological modernity achieved today is portrayed by him as the cause of the human being's static situation, which due to material comforts has become unable to deeply question the fundamental concepts of “pseudo” human development. The intention of this series is to represent the inconsistencies of human development, - he explains.

The series is portrayed in four basic points: cultural development; the unstructured technological development, the risk of a nuclear catastrophe, and the consequences of that possible catastrophe.

All paintings are planned based on the golden ratio, rectangles and various elements are painted on cardboard and placed at strategic points on the canvases.

 

                                                                                  

Tempos

                        Sense    

Some physical / mathematical formulas and artistic elements represent real human progress. The leaves of trees (prepared for not deteriorate) portray naturalism, which until a time was valued, and now practically forgotten. Elements painted and then placed in the paintings reflect the threat of the nuclear holocaust at the end of this century and millennium.

All pictures have computer parts placed, which represent the unbridled dominance of technology in today's society. “I don't worry if the viewer will be able to understand my language, because the important thing is that he draws his own conclusions about the topic addressed and understands the essence of what I try to convey” - he concludes.

 

The exhibition of visual arts and poetry will run until April 30, at ouse of Culture – 1160, Sete de Setembro st.

 

 

Walter Miranda
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