The commanding masterpiece stands as a definitive milestone showcasing the formal sophistication and raw gestural energy of ALMO’s acclaimed The Head Series. This exceptional large scale modern painting intentionally disrupts traditional portraiture, deploying a premium large-scale canvas substrate as a minimalist landscape to float a highly structured, fragmented human silhouette in constant visual transition. The composition features a human profile template completely enveloped and invaded by an intricate, dense maze of multicolored paint splatters, violent drips, and thick gestural cells executed in heavily saturated primary, neon, and warm earth tones. This calculated visual matrix functions as an anthropological map of borders, nomadic displacement, and transcontinental memories, transforming the canvas into a raw physical statement on identity fluidness.
Whether they are symbols, dreams or marks of the life of each of us. The artist's work often features portrait paintings, 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 acrylic paintings, aiming for a state of ' semi-trance' as he himself defines his process.
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Large Scale Modern Painting - Abstract head looking left, 2020. By ALMO
Abstract head looking left, 2020
From The Head Series
Acrylic paint on canvas
Dimensions: 47.2 H x 31.4 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.
