The breathtaking masterwork stands as a definitive milestone showcasing the formal sophistication and conceptual framework of ALMO’s acclaimed The Geometric Head Series. This exceptional contemporary portrait painting intentionally disrupts academic portraiture, deploying a premium brown cellulose leather backing framed by a delicate hand-drawn golden linear border to anchor a highly structured, fragmented human silhouette in constant visual transition. The composition thrives on a striking internal dichotomy: the back of the head template is sliced using precise multicolored vertical fine lines, while the face fractures into a dense, cubist-inspired patchwork of geometric shapes in deep blues, fiery oranges, and warm tones. ALMO masterfully translates his transcontinental memories and nomadic displacement into an intricate cartography where every pattern serves as an anthropological sign of identity fluidness.
Whether symbols, dreams, or traces of our individual lives, the artist's work often features heads, floating bodies, trees, dollar signs, cars, laurel branches, and symbolic elements that denounce the cruelties of our borders. Almo executes his drawings intuitively in these portrait paintings acrylic paintings, seeking a state of semi-trance, as he defines his process.
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Contemporary Portrait Painting - Cellular Interventions #2, 2024. By ALMO
Cellular Interventions #2, 2024
From The Geometric Head Series
Acrylic paint on cellulose leather
Dimensions: 23.6 H x 19.6 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.

















