“Reverse Sky 1”

The artist began working with visual arts in the 1990s and in 1997, he studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts du Louvre in Paris. In addition, he was close to the artist Gil Vicente during his formative years. His work includes painting, installation, urban interventions and photography. He has participated in exhibitions in several countries, such as Dengler und Dengler in Stuttgart and the D'Est and D'ouest gallery in Paris. Among the public collections of which he is a part are the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation, the Aloísio Magalhães Museum of Modern Art (MAMAM), SESC Pernambuco, all in Recife; and the Museums of Contemporary Art (MAC) of Goiânia, Sorocaba and Paraná.

After his contact with Gil Vicente, Manoel Veiga began to develop his interests as an artist, working mainly with drawings and paintings. In the late 1990s, when he began studying with Rodrigo Naves, he focused mainly on abstract paintings. Fluid canvases, created from pigments applied to the canvas in a horizontal position and without a brush, leaving room for chance. In his most recent practice, Veiga began to use new media such as photography and video.

Manoel Veiga believes that the most important thing is not the technique used by the artist, but the possibility of creating meaning. “It doesn’t matter whether the visual manifestation is in the form of painting, sculpture, installation or performance. This is how I understand where the need for coherence in art comes from, here understood as the artist’s search for a clarity of intention that allows for a deeper exploration of issues of interest and that materializes in works with a great capacity to generate meaning and discourse.”