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DAVIS LISBOA (SÃO PAULO, 1965) - BLANCA GARCÍA-VEGA

The artistic personality of the versatil Hispano-Brazilian Davis Lisboa has been developed from the synthesis of a multiple "hybridization" and shows the global complexity and the multicultural wealth derived from his time and his space. Formed in postmodernity, he has been influenced by the tranvanguardia, the German neoexpresionisme and the last creative tendencies. From 1988 to 1999, he has been dedicated to the advertising and that experimentation causes
that the graphic medias are used like "signs" in a clear and precise way.
The change of millenium has supposed in his trajectory the rereading of the historical vanguards: Self-portrait (1999), Abstraction (2002), Angel (2004).
The second phase of his pictorial production, from 2005, is within the analytical postmodernism looking forward his own identity, marked by the transversality and the linguistic hybridization, with the questioning of the artistic categories,
the elaboration of subversive contents and iconoclast repertoires, extracted from very different sources, to break the limits of aesthetic means and their ethics, as it is displayed in his last artworks: Great Stairs, Solum, Domus, Hybrid-Obex, Hybrid- Abaporu. Is in the purity of the hybridization that his artwork reaches his deeper meaning

Blanca García-Vega
Art History teacher of the Universidad de Valladolid
Member of the Florence Biennale Scientific Committee
Member of A.I.C.A
(Catalog of the Florence Biennale 2007, pp. 444)

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DAVIS LISBOA REVEALS HIS ART WITH AN EXPLOSION OF COLORS AND
DYNAMIC EXPRESSION - EMANUEL VON LAUENSTEIN MASSARANI

The vision of Davis Lisboa is attracted by all the possibilities of expression:
colour, line, space and meaning. Although he had moved away from a certain realism still implicit in his present canvas establishing almost a prologue
to the definitive adoption of an abstractionism totally influenced by the availability of the artist to the evocation of a pictorical image being both informal
and symbolical at the same time.

His painting represents the synthesis of a classic and a modern vision of the world. The artist has arrived to this situation with a careful chromatic investigation where masses of colors are mixed to express his world directed to an immediate dynamism of rare expressive power.

Davis Lisboa has found the key of this interpretation in his profiles
that as a whole he transforms into a true explosion of colours. Before being fixed images on the canvas his paintings constitute an experimented “reality”
in the thought. From this reality an essential painting is born, where colour, drawing
and composition are invented in an instant, without rethinking, without mistaking.

The matter does not prevent the flow of the emotion: the instinct arises
with its fundamental force and it obtains conscientious and expressly
the support that welcomes it. Davis Lisboa is an artist of the civilization of our time that lives art as a revelation, as a message and as a consequence like true poetry.

THE ARTIST

Davis Lisboa was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1965. Graduated in Communication, he has worked as an illustrator in Brazil from 1983 to 1987. He moved to Barcelona, Spain in 1987 still working in illustration.

He studied several art courses like painting in the Escola Brasileira de Arte, SP, Brazil (1984); Escola Massana, Barcelona, Spain (1987-1990) and at the Universitat de Belles Arts de Barcelona, Spain (1996).
He participated in many exhibitions, like in the Galeria Art Brut, São Paulo; Associação de Artistas Plasticos da Colagem, São Paulo (1984); Sala Jaume Busquet, Escola Massana, Barcelona, Spain (1988); Galería de Arte Gaudí, Madrid, Spain; Galería Kunsthaus, Barcelona (2005); galeria d’art espai [b], Barcelona,
Spain; Galeria d’Art Paspartú, Barcelona, Spain, Galería de Arte San Vicente 31, Seville, Spain.

He has works in some public and private collections, like BMW Ibérica, Madrid, Spain, JBM, Barcelona, Spain, Centrum Miasta, Chelmek, Poland and in the Museu de Arte do Parlamento de São Paulo, Brazil.

Emanuel von Lauenstein Massarani
Superintendent of Cultural Heritage in São Paulo, Brazil

Art Director of the Florence Biennale 

Art Critic

August 2007

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PINION (Piñón)

2003
Oil and collage on canvas
130 x 130 cm

VIOLET (Violeta)

2004
Acrylic and oil on canvas
130 x 130 cm

ANGEL (Ángel)

2004
Acrylic, oil and golden on canvas
130 x 130 cm

CROCUS

2005
Acrylic on canvas
130 x 130 cm

RED ADAN (Adán Rojo)

2005
Acrylic on canvas
130 x 130 cm

BIG STAIR (Gran Escalera)

2006
Acrylic, oil, gold and silver on canvas
130 x 130 cm

SOLUM

2006
Acrylic and oil on canvas
130 x 130 cm

DOMUS

2006
Acrylic, oil, collage, golden and silver on canvas
130 x 130 cm

HYBRID-OBEX

2007
Acrylic, oil, gold, silver, cooper and collage on canvas
130 x 130 cm

HYBRID-PHYLACTERIUM

2007
Acrylic, oil and charcoal on canvas
130 x 130 cm

HYBRID-ABAPORU

2007
Acrylic, oil, gold, silver and cooper on canvas
130 x 130 cm

ROSE MARY

2007
Acrylic, oil, gold, silver, cooper and collage on canvas
130 x 130 cm

WORLD TRADE CENTER

2007
Acrylic and oil on canvas
130 x 130 cm

HYBRID-CAECUS

2007
Acrylic, oil, gold, silver, cooper and aluminum on canvas
130 x 130 cm

HYBRID-FAVELA

2008
Acrylic and oil on canvas
130 x 130 cm

HYBRID-FORMIDONIS

2008
Acrylic, oil and gold on canvas
130 x 130 cm

HYBRID-LAVACRUM

2008
Acrylic, oil and gold on canvas
130 x 130 cm

HYBRID-DUPLICITAS

2008
Acrylic and oil on canvas
130 x 130 cm

HYBRID-PODAGRA

2008
Acrylic, oil and golden on canvas
50,7 x 50,7 in

HYBRID-SACI

2009
Oil on canvas
50,7 x 50,7 in