The breathtaking masterwork stands as a definitive milestone showcasing the formal sophistication and material innovation of ALMO’s acclaimed The Botanical Interruption Series. This exceptional contemporary portrait painting intentionally disrupts academic portraiture, deploying a premium large-scale cellulose leather backing as a minimalist landscape to float a highly structured, fragmented human silhouette in constant visual transition. The composition features a human profile countenance completely enveloped and invaded by an intricate, dense maze of botanical leaves executed in highly saturated cobalt and cerulean blue acrylic shades. Layered on top of this organic tapestry, a tight geometric web of golden lines fractures the anatomy, functioning as an anthropological map of borders, fluid displacement, and transcontinental memories.
Almo wonders about his identity, the countries he has lived in, his daily routine and how he creates himself. An outsider who has made the world his home, skin, and citizenship, and through his artwork, he safeguards it in an attempt to explore the mysteries that pass through. Whether they are symbols, dreams or marks of the life of each of us.
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Contemporary Portrait Painting - Big invasion #1, 2024. By ALMO
Big invasion #1, 2024
From The Botanical Interruption Series
Acrylic paint on cellulose leather
Dimensions: 39.3 H x 29.5 W in.
Unique
Unframed
Almo, Jorge Alberto Murilo, was born in Honduras, grew up in the Philippines. He lives in Brazil, Salvador, Bahia, since 1999, today he lives in São Paulo. Regarding his academic training, he graduated in Industrial Design, completed in 1997, at the European Institute of Design, Milan, Italy. He has training in Architecture from the University of Florence, Faculty of Architecture and the Milan Polytechnic.

















