Gorgias 1920 diptych

gorgias 19 Aung

Piece description from the artist

For about 18 months a group of Burmese sailors where stranded inside Rio Arauca, an oil container ship belonging to Venezuela, in the Tagus delta in Lisbon, Portugal. The ship was arrested as a guaranty from debs of the Venezuelan state to Portugal, the crew was not allowed to leave the ship, as a security measure, until the final court decision. Aung and Sing where two of the crew who accept to share their story.

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About Zalo Kappa

Madrid, Spain

Madrid based artist Nuno Paixão was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1985.
After completing his degree in Fine Arts – Painting, and starting to exhibit in 2008, Nuno departure to Leipzig, Germany to pursue further specialization in painting history and techniques, with great interest in the "european masters". Returned to Lisbon to complete a Master´s degree in Painting in 2017.
Now living and working in Madrid, Nuno´s work explores the space between abstraction and figurative, between history and the quotidian reality to create an excuse to paint and let the material transform into matter.

In an age of technological innovation, when the competitive flux of production
has taken the place of the physical expression of one's inner universe and imaginary,
and after it's obituary has been declared innumerous times over the last 150 years,
painting presents itself as an act of resistance. A melancholic resistance that mirrors
several times and spaces, between past and present, yet mostly, the extent of an utopian
time and space: the inner time and space of its author.
What room is there in the world for mystery? What language is there for a logic
and wisdom that is not binary? Can we go beyond the argument? What other
relationship can you have with the world besides dominance? Listening to the truth of
being is the silent response to a being's calling. This silent response is found in painting.

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