According to Ernesto Silva Coelho his works follow a freestyle collaterally to the spontaneity of his mind, transcendent to outer appearances, manifested in the realm of ideas as a starting point for the implementation of a thought, an awakening of reason, or a process of mental creation, the protagonist of a story.
Let's talk about your work; you use various artistic forms, from painting to drawing to sculpture, in which you feel most comfortable?
Ernesto Silva Coelho: Especially in painting, I like to create new forms, but other strands attract me such as sculpture, drawing and photography, turns out to be an artistic worldwide.
What's your creative process? How do you develop your artistic thinking?
ECS: It's a mental preparation before physical implementation, i.e., there is a process from research and experiences where I collect the necessary information of colors and shapes that helps me doing the mental construction of the work. While executing it I have always this guideline, but there are always variables that alter the work and often pre-conceived image of the piece that may eventually change slightly or radically the work.
In your work there is a certain shock. Are you looking for the reaction of the beholder? The subjects fled to the unusual, I am talking about the theme of bondage, but not only that.
ECS: Undoubtedly, any artist wants to provoke a reaction, or a judgment, so every connoisseur digresses a little. I like to create images that are unusual.
What draws you to these themes?
ECS: Indeed they are little discussed topics. I cannot create traditional and classic paintings, I do not identify with that kind of art. I have a need to do something different, just the unusual.
One of the last works you presented at an exhibition was chairs.
ECS: This was an invitation by an association of plastic artist for a group exhibition in which the material was the chair. Each artist had that object as a starting point to build a work. And that was the way I found to show the chair, but I have a different way than usual and it was something completely different.
How do you define as an artist?
ECS: I am a curious; I discover various techniques, concepts and strands.
In terms of color palettes yours are not very lush.
ECS: Yes.
Is there any meaning behind this choice?
ECS: No, I never ever had the same line. I just use different influences, different colors. I started working with more color, now I am beginning to like the tones drier and milder.
Another aspect of her career is the production of books on art. Is it important?
ECS: I participated in the construction and deployment of a publication that was important to me as a person, as a way of contributing to the national culture and I think that was a starting point for other publications that were derived therefore.
But there are still people who read about art?
ECS: I read and I think there are other people who do it so. At least, I hope so. (Laughs)
Are you currently working in a new exhibition?
ECS: I'm working on a series of 15 works that follow the same line for an exhibition. The theme is something I cannot say yet. (Laughs)
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