Expo Cotidianos

In the exhibition the artists Felipe Salsano and Ildeu Borges tell stories through the representation of images of daily lives of people in Brasilia and in different parts of the world.

Both are figurative artists and work with traditional drawing and painting techniques, using oil, watercolor and acrylic paints. Born in Brasilia, they belong to two generations and have very different backgrounds. Felipe was born in 1987 and at the age of nineteen he left Brasilia to study art in Italy and graduated with honors from one of the most prestigious schools in the world: the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze. Currently attending the Russian Academy of Art in the same city. Ildeu was born in 1971, graduated in engineering, is self-taught in the field of arts and regularly exhibits his works having been awarded on several occasions.

Felipe invites us to travel with him through the horizons that he found around the world. Ildeu is mainly inspired by landscapes and characters from his hometown, Brasília. Both artists are touched by simple, ordinary landscapes, people and situations such as the ice cream man who passes in front of a building, a family at the beach or a woman with colorful clothes who walks down the street.

The paintings are constructed with more detailed parts in contrast to simpler, almost abstract parts. Ildeu works with a geometric abstraction, Felipe finds it in the union of brush strokes that compose an atmosphere of colors and exalt the represented human figure.

Felipe and Ildeu invite viewers to immerse themselves in each scene, interpreting it according to their own experiences and emotions.