ANTONIO MALTA CAMPOS (BRAZILLIAN B. 1961)
Things
2007
acrylic on canvas
230 x 360

Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 2012

Exhibition History:
London, Saatchi Gallery, Pangaea: New Art From Africa And Latin America, 2 April 2014 - 2 November 2014
São Paulo, Centro Cultural São Paulo, Antonio Malta e Erika Verzutti, 2012
São Paulo, Galeria Virgilio, Antonio Malta, 2007

Literature:
The Saatchi Gallery, Pangaea: New Art From Africa And Latin America, The Saatchi Gallery, London, 2014, pp.40 (illustrated in colour)

Artist Description:
Brazilian artist Antonio Malta Campos applies the unstable wonder of musical improvisation or jamming principles to his unpredictable but close-fitting paintings. The artist begins his works with a single pattern that expands over time into interweaving layers and shapes, light and dark. Like a building up of sound, the image starts to define organic forms: two solitary characters in a minimal landscape looking straight into the void or staring at us as lost heroes.