Luiz Braga: Colorista
About to celebrate his 50th career anniversary, artist Luiz Braga is opening his fifth solo show at Galeria Leme, in a long-standing partnership. The show Luiz Braga:Colorista presents a cross-section of the artist’s production, focused much more on color than on the social themes of his work. In this scenario, Braga detaches himself from figuration and dives into the hidden colors of everyday life in his homeland, Pará.
The dialogues proposed in the show illustrate this aspect of the artist’s work, finding intersections with pictorial works by Paulo Pasta and Alfredo Volpi, in which he brings his photographs closer to painting techniques. To do this, Braga emphasizes the light field of the region as a materiality brushed by the lens of his camera.
In a region like Marajó, where in the small riverside villages the houses don’t have numbers but different colors to identify them, Luiz explores all this light and the richness of this vast palette displayed on the island and in its daily life.
Luiz Braga is not a photographer by name, but rather because he is – as he says – “a painter who chose the camera, taking on the challenge of painting with light.”
