(b 1968Brazil. )
Combining references from the realms of architecture, design and art history, Fabio Almeida creates large scale collages using a variety of materials including painted and found paper, markers, bleach and letraset. His playful compositions functioning as fractured landscapes or structures whereupon events and narratives may develop.
A sense of nostalgia permeates through Fabio’s work - his colour palette, shapes and materials alluding to a bygone era of modern optimism but tinted with the gritty realities of present day living. A tension is created between the elegant, ordered language of geometric abstraction and the materiality of the surface – the scribbled and tarnished layers of paper suggesting more mundane and fragile aspects of life.
