Fabio Almeida Brazilian, b. 1968
Overview
Fabio Almeida was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 1968 and settled in the UK in the early 1990's where he studied painting at the City Lit Institute and Communication Art & Design at the Royal College of Arts in London.
His recent work draws on the legacy of the Modernist movement so prevalent in his native South America during the immediate post war period. The aesthetics and vision of architects and designers such as Oscar Niemeyer, Lina Bo Bardi, Roberto Burle Marx to name a few, form the building blocks of Almeida's visual language. His work is laced with a layer of realism and current preoccupations of present day, especially those related to life in large urban areas.
Almeida's large scale abstract collages, created using hand painted papers, varnish and markers offer playful compositions referencing design and architecture, but the materiality and texture of the surfaces remind us of more mundane aspects of urban life: rough walls, pavements, digital glitches, even pollution.
It is in the tension between the pleasing aesthetics of the compositions and the physicality of the layered surfaces that Almeida's paintings come to life.
Works
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Fabio AlmeidaTicker, 2022Painted paper, markers, letraset and varnish on plywood panel with oak frame62 x 62 cm
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Fabio AlmeidaConcrete Clouds, 2022Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel with oak frame124 x 102 cm
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Fabio AlmeidaRise, 2022Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel with oak frame102 x 102 cm
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Fabio AlmeidaOpen Edges, 2022Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel with oak frame124 x 102 cm
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Fabio AlmeidaOn Firm Ground, 2022Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel with oak frame124 x 102 cm
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Fabio AlmeidaLa Promenade (Nocturnal), 2022Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel with oak frame124 x 102 cm
48 13/16 x 40 3/16 inSigned, titled and dated on reverseView more details -
Fabio AlmeidaRolling Out, 2022Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel with oak frame102 x 82 cm
40 3/16 x 32 1/4 inSigned, titled and dated on reverseView more details -
Fabio AlmeidaCata, 2022Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel with wood frame35 x 25 cm
13 3/4 x 9 13/16 inSigned, dated and titled on reverseView more details -
Fabio AlmeidaA Square Trick, 2022Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel with oak frame32 x 29 cm
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Fabio AlmeidaTomorrow's Lines, 2022Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel with oak frame39 x 30 cm
15 3/8 x 11 13/16 inSigned, titled and dated on reverseView more details -
Fabio AlmeidaPula, 2022Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel with wood frame35 x 25 cm
13 3/4 x 9 13/16 inSigned, dated and titled on reverseView more details -
Fabio AlmeidaPonta, 2022Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel with wood frame35 x 25 cm
13 3/4 x 9 13/16 inSigned, dated and titled on reverseView more details -
Fabio AlmeidaOlv, 2022Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel with oak frame53 x 46 cm
20 7/8 x 18 1/8 inSigned, titled and dated on reverseView more details -
Fabio AlmeidaLado, 2022Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel with wood frame35 x 25 cm
13 3/4 x 9 13/16 inSigned, dated and titled on reverseView more details -
Fabio AlmeidaIntala, 2022Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel with wood frame32 x 24 cm
12 5/8 x 9 7/16 inSigned, dated and titled on reverseView more details -
Fabio AlmeidaHatch, 2022Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel with oak frame38 x 30 cm
14 15/16 x 11 13/16 inSigned, titled and dated on reverseView more details -
Fabio AlmeidaFasson, 2022Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel with oak frame53 x 46 cm
20 7/8 x 18 1/8 inSigned, titled and dated on reverseView more details -
Fabio AlmeidaGlowding, 2022Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel with oak frame43 x 33 cm
16 15/16 x 13 inSigned, titled and dated on reverseView more details -
Fabio AlmeidaWater Jump, 2022Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel with oak frame43 x 33 cm
16 15/16 x 13 inSigned, titled and dated on reverseView more details -
Fabio AlmeidaUrba, 2022Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel with wood frame35 x 25 cm
13 3/4 x 9 13/16 inSigned, dated and titled on reverseView more details -
Fabio AlmeidaUntitled, 2021Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel with oak frame.42 x 40 cm
16 9/16 x 15 3/4 inSigned and dated on reverseView more details -
Fabio AlmeidaThe Rails II, 2021Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel with oak frame33 x 28 cm
13 x 11 1/16 inSigned, titled and dated on reverseView more details -
Fabio AlmeidaAfter the Call, 2021Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel124 x 102 cm
48 13/16 x 40 3/16 inSigned, titled and dated on reverseView more details -
Fabio AlmeidaAs it Was, 2021Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on a solid piece of sequoia wood49 x 47 x 6 cm
19 1/4 x 18 1/2 x 2 3/8 inView more details -
Fabio AlmeidaB-Side, 2021Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel124 x 102 cm
48 13/16 x 40 3/16 inSigned, titled and dated on reverseView more details -
Fabio AlmeidaBitter Flame, Sweet Shadows (II), 2022Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel with oak frame82 x 82 cm
31 1/2 x 31 1/2 insigned, titled and dated on reverseView more details -
Fabio AlmeidaBit by bit, 2021Collage on card40 x 30 cm
15 3/4 x 11 13/16 inSigned, titled and dated on reverseView more details -
Fabio AlmeidaBitter Flame, Sweet Shadows (I), 2022Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel with oak frame82 x 82 cm
31 1/2 x 31 1/2 insigned, titled and dated on reverseView more details -
Fabio AlmeidaLanes, 2021Painted paper, markers, letraset, pva and varnish on plywood panel with oak frame.57 x 49 cm
22 22/50 x 19 14/50signed and dated on reverseView more details -
Fabio AlmeidaPercolate, 2020Painted paper and markers collage on board with a sapele frame122 x 62 cm
48 1/8 x 24 3/8 inView more details -
Fabio AlmeidaLonely Planet IV, 2018mixed media collage on card26.5 x 21.5 cmView more details
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Fabio AlmeidaThe Escape, 2018Mixed Media collage on cardframed: 30 x 21 cm
11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inView more details
Exhibitions
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Fabio Almeida
In Plain Sight 29 April - 5 June 2022In Plain Sight brings together a new group of works by Brazilian-born, London-based artist Fabio Almeida for his first solo exhibition at the Laurent Delaye gallery. The title seeks to...Read more -
Winter Salon 2021
IT'S A WRAP! 26 November - 24 December 2021It's a Wrap is the conclusion to a pretty turbulent year world-wide. Covid, the Climate, it has been an 'on and off' year out of self-isolation in which we tried...Read more -
Trans_Formations Finale
1 October - 20 November 2021 -
Trans_Formations II
Summer exhibition 12 August - 26 September 2021The exhibition presents contemporary artists in a wide variety of media including embroidery (Jessica Voorsanger), flint sculpture (Drew Edwards), paintings and collage (Lucy Troubridge, Fabio Almeida, Rosalind Davis), ink monotypes...Read more