Inspiration from other artists

 
 

Henrique Oliveira

''I believe that the message is never art itself, but instead, the lack of a message is a characteristic that makes some creations interesting to me,'' he says, adding ''my works may propose a spatial experience, an aesthetic feeling, a language development and many more nominations to refer to the relation it establishes with the viewer. But, any attempt to find a message would fail.''.
Henrique Oliveira

''I call them pictorial and organic,” he says. Although he always starts from a sketch, when occupying large spaces his work is made in a much freer way. “In the organic works, which are based on more clear references such as skin, bellies, organ, or tumors, I tend to follow a plan which can be changed a little bit on the way.''

The thing that struck me about Oliveira's work was the tension between his big beutiful organic forms breaking out from the the rigid urban spaces. These works reminded me of traveling in Cambodia seeing the magnificant kingdom of Anchor Whatt crumbling over the past 700 years from enourmas powerful trees that started out as hair like roots between the cracks of the stone work. When i was sitting in these spaces i was humbled by the power of nature that could dismantle the most impresive human endevour.