ALCHEMY ON RED
Artwork Title: ALCHEMY ON RED Dimensions: 124 x 63 cm Medium: Oil paint, spray paint, mixed media, and enamel on unprimed canvas
The artwork "ALCHEMY ON RED" emerges as a visceral declaration of art's transformative power, where pictorial materiality becomes a metaphor for alchemical processes of transmutation and rebirth.
Technique Used: The technique reveals a sophisticated experimental approach combining multiple expressive media on unprimed canvas. The absence of primer is fundamental to the final effect - it allows paints to be absorbed irregularly by the fibers, creating areas of variable saturation that confer organicity to the surface. Oil paint, applied in dense layers, especially in the incandescent yellows and oranges, creates pronounced reliefs that capture and reflect light dramatically. Spray paint introduces a contemporary dimension and more diffused application, possibly responsible for the smooth gradients and color halos emanating from central forms. Enamel, with its glossy finish and ability to create defined contours, seems responsible for the dark, fluid lines that delimit and connect the color eruptions. Mixed media adds textural complexity, creating a tapestry of surfaces varying from opaque to translucent, from dense to airy. The work's imposing height (124 cm) versus its width (63 cm) creates a dominant vertical presence that emphasizes the ascension and verticality of forms.
Style: The style is firmly situated in gestural abstract expressionism, with clear influences from tachisme and action painting. The work dialogues with Jackson Pollock's tradition in gestural freedom but maintains its own identity through the incandescent palette and more organic structuring of forms. The biomorphic forms emerging from the red background evoke simultaneously flames, incandescent lava, organisms in metamorphosis, or cosmic explosions. The chromatic palette is bold and primary: the dominant red serves as an ardent matrix for the dramatic interaction of solar yellows, vibrant oranges, and warm reds, punctuated by dark tones that create contrast and depth. The style celebrates controlled spontaneity and direct expression of creative energy, fundamental characteristics of the finest abstract expressionism.
Poetic Context: The title "ALCHEMY ON RED" establishes a deeply evocative poetic context that transforms the work into a meditation on transformation and transcendence. Alchemy, the ancestral art of transmuting base metals into gold, becomes here a metaphor for the creative process and art's capacity to transform raw matter into transcendent experience. The "RED" is not merely background color, but the primordial crucible, the sacred fire where transformation's magic happens. The forms emerging from red can be read as elements in purification process, primal energies seeking superior form, or the artist's own soul in metamorphosis. The work invites an almost mystical experience, where the observer witnesses the exact moment of transmutation - when matter becomes spirit, when chaos organizes into beauty, when destruction reveals itself as creation. It is a celebration of art's alchemical power to transform not only materials but consciousness, offering the observer the possibility of their own transmutation through aesthetic contemplation.
A Galeria Margot nasceu do olhar sensível e da jornada pessoal do médico e artista plástico Fábio Teixeira. Fundada como um espaço de expressão e resiliência, a galeria celebra a arte contemporânea em suas diversas formas, refletindo a paixão de seu idealizador por cores, texturas e a capacidade transformadora da criação artística. Mais que uma galeria, é um lugar onde a arte floresce como um legado de amor e superação.