Vol. 15 No. 28 (2019): Tensões Mundiais - Edição Temática: América Central

Artist of this issue

Carlos Décimo de Souza was born in 1961 in Camocim, Ceará. He has a degree in Fishery Engineering from the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) and since 1995 lives in Brasilia. A self-taught artist, he follows a creative path marked by a passion for vibrant colors, elaborated into effects that resemble a hyper-expanded vision of digital pixels. The result is a work of visual impact that arouses dreamlike and sometimes psychedelic sensations. Visual lightness can appear absolutely or interspersed with massive blocks of color in quasi-sculptural compositions, obtained by both the overlaying of acrylic paint layers, giving it an opulent texture, as well as the perspective that creates volume and depth effects. Undeterred by trends, it is open to the influences of various arts schools from which it draws inspiration to translate them into their chromatic universe, where color and light complement each other in a disquieting and unexpected way.