Luciano Figueiredo

(Fortaleza, 1948)

Luciano Figueiredo was born in Fortaleza in 1948. Figueiredo started painting in the 1960s with Adams Firnekaes, a teacher from the Bauhaus, transiting between Salvador and Rio de Janeiro throughout his formation period. While in London, between 1972 and 1978, Figueiredo carried out studies in Art History and English Literature. During that same period, he began his research using newspaper prints, following his visual poems made with cutout words, colour stains, and British tabloids. His investigation led, since 1975, to the construction of three-dimensional objects with collages, wire meshes, and monochromatic reliefs, represented in exhibitions held in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo from 1984 onwards. The artist asserted himself as an exponent of the Brazilian counterculture movement in the 1970s through the production of music performance’s scenography, graphic design projects, and thanks to his participation in the historic publication Navilouca.

Luciano Figueiredo creates various possibilities of perception, where his work is distinguished by its experimental, interdisciplinary character. Currently, the artist develops completely planar paintings, in which he constructs and overlaps layers of colours applied directly on wood or canvas, inviting a mood of pure contemplation from the viewer, in the their own individual time.