The image presents a serene and ethereal composition of soft, hazy shades of blue and white. The overall visual effect evokes a sense of tranquility and dreamlike abstraction, with indistinct forms and blurred edges creating a sense of depth and atmosphere. The artist's technique appears to employ layers of translucent paint or digital manipulation, resulting in a subtlety and ethereality that invites contemplation and interpretation. This artwork may reflect the artist's exploration of the boundaries between the tangible and the ephemeral, or their pursuit of a meditative state through the use of minimalist, atmospheric elements. ...
What immediately strikes from Goncalo Preto’s production it’s how his sophisticated pictorial technique is applied to the creation of situations that are often embedded with a tense atmosphere, as parts of disconnected narratives that compose the whole visual world of the artist. Since his second solo show, Middle Finger Pedestrians, presented at the gallery in November 2019, the artist started a new series of paintings originated by the interest in the representation of dim environments, focusing on the portrayal of different light sources and on how the observer's eye adapts to the blackness of the different represented scenes. His most recent works show a development in this research about vision where the artist plays with our vision and its reaction to light, focus, proximity, abstraction and the mysterious creation scenes that seem to belong to everybody’s lost memories. ...
