Caio Fern, acrylic on canvas 2012.

acrylic on canvas by Caio Fern 2011

Caio Fern , acrylic on canvas 2011.

only a nice and calm painting in the morning listening music and do not thinking about the busy week I am going to have ahead.

this is it , i need to buy a decent camera, this one is having problem to turn it on and I think there is something wrong with the lens too, it is capturing the pictorial values in a all fragmented way.
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loose painting with no intention to arrive anywhere, just painting and having fun with the plots of brush stroke and little values.

Caio Fern on KALEiDOSKOP

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Now there is Caio Fern on the site kaleidoskop. 

this is a very good place to know new artists. 

check the link. 

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Acrylic on canvas by Caio Fern 2011 – revised.

 

 

Two nights ago I decided to paint this work a little bit more.
It was painted on January 10 but I never felt it was tottaly finished because of the background. Now I believe that I fixed it. It is horrible to have a painting that doesn’t make you feel confortable when think about it, it is like a half truth, it doesn’t match with what you feel. Doesn’t matter if was painted yesterday or ten years ago. You must to go there and fix it.
I think it is fixed now.

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CUT – acrylic on canvas by Caio Fern 2011 -

On these works I intended to only make the main figure have to deal with itself in a way the space around isn’t necessary to be present.
On my paintings over the years ( the last 12 years ) the space around the main figure painted on raw canvasses is denied but here it is totally excluded.
These characteristics are always happening for the same reason. To isolate the individual from the environment and make it be forced to only deal with itself.

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ACRYLIC ON CANVAS BY CAIO FERN 2011

An angry mess?
You bet it is.
Incredible, this morning I woke up a bit lazy but happy for having a time to paint. I spent the whole earlier night at the studio only thinking and was exited for the morning light and start to paint.
I believe that in less than 5 minutes painting my mood got totally twisted and I lost my patience with every single detail. There was a moment that I said: ” I hate this painting , it has been 4 hours that I am working on it and nothing happens”. Then I realized that I was painting for only 45 minutes. hahah!
Well…. after one hour the painting was too well done , I mean, so illustrative and polite that didn’t have its own life and didn’t seen that would get better. So I started to erase everything and cut. This is it . Done and fuck off.
well… now I even like the final result.
I thing that more than any kind of meditation , yoga or anything else, painting is the biggest and hardest lesson of patience and perseverance. My best works happened when I was working hard on it and nothing was right…. so I tried harder and after hours made that hell become a really good painting. I belive that most part of people that says that aren’t good painter is because they just give up too easily.
Then exists that cheap excuse : Painting isn’t a good media for modern life because we are always doing lots of things at the same time too fast and have no time for anything else”. Sure , what a lame excuse , people spends hours in front of TV or computer or playing video games but don’t have few hours to paint.
Today I was the opposite of what I believe. I really lost my patience about everything. Now doesn’t even matter if this work is good or not , only the fact it exists is already a miracle. Part of me wished to finish it because of my bad mood. Why not to be faithful to what you feel ? Simple, right ? Nothing more basic and simple than this. I would feel like an hypocrite if I said : ” You know what ? I don’t like this feeling so I am going to stop to paint and wait till I get calmer and happier”. No… this isn’t me. hahahah!
Have a nice weekend everyone !

when little paintings pretend to be drawings. Caio Fern 2001 2002. Oil or acrylic on paper.

 

It has been so many years that I don’t draw….. I dislike so much to draw that even when I draw I don’t…. these are all paintings, there are no lines on it, only very thin spots and sometimes not thin at all .
I just don’t like to express myself by the kind of plots offered by lines …I need spots, I need the relation spots offer between light and matter.
But I remember that doing these works I found some satisfaction.
these are few works of a time I used to make lots a day…. really , I think I have something like hundreds here. I only took pictures of something like 20 in 2009 and left kept on my files here.
works from 2001 and 2002 .
keep it simple,Caio, keep it simple.

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Acrylic on canvas by Caio Fern 2011 – cut and add.

 

 

At least for this week this is going to be the last one I will produce as I have done a total of 3 painting/objects.
Again the photo sucks, hahahah! oh my… I complain about the same things every single time for years. And about these last works has even more problem, I can’t pass to the photo one aspect I really like that is when I walk around the studio looking to it and its different angles. The work is strong and seducing but by photo is only a piece on the wall. What can I do ? I think that even with a good camera it would look like this.
On this process I have to take decisions during and after to paint when I am cutting the canvasses. I don’t only cut around the head, I really decide to make cuts creating new formats that I didn’t see when was only holding a brush. It allows my to be complete about the two main visual art natures: mould and sculpture. People always refer painting and sculpture as similar arts but the are the extreme opposite. Painting is like ceramics-pottery where you have to add matter to the body and manipulate it till give the form you search for. On Sculpture you have a full body and must to take-extract matter till find the for you need.
On these works I am able to do the same as the paintings are always bigger than the final result, then I cut cut cut for intensifying the expression reducing it only to the extremely necessary. If on a canvasses or board the balance of the image is crucial for its harmony here it becomes the most important part of the expression and this is what will make the work survive. 

On this particular piece I cut cut cut cut… and latter had to add parts already cut back to the work but in different positions and functions. 

I hope you liked it !
see you !

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Acrylic on canvas by Caio Fern 2011

 

 

yes , I finished one yesterday and started this one today…. done !!!
I just wanted to put it in practice a little bit more.
I don’t think this is going to be the new way my work is going to take. They are only experiments I am doing here. No commitment  

Hope you enjoy.

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