FERNANDO GRADE — MATTER, MEMORY AND TERRITORY 🖼️🔥

Some works seem to be born from the earth itself. This magnificent oil on canvas by Faro artist Fernando Grade carries that telluric, dense and almost archaeological strength: a painting made of matter, texture, silence and depth.

The composition reveals itself as a fragmented territory, somewhere between rock, skin, shadow and light. The intense browns, torn whites, deep blacks and warm accents create an inner landscape, almost geological, where the eye loses itself among layers, fissures, organic forms and hidden memories. There is something visceral in this work — as if we were standing before an ancient map, a wall excavated by time, or a landscape seen from within.

Fernando Grade, an artist from Faro, works here with an intense and very personal language, where painting gains body, weight and breath. His work reveals a strong relationship with matter, with the structure of composition and with the silent energy of places, creating images that do not reveal themselves immediately, but make us stay, look and feel.

A piece of great presence, deeply decorative and emotional, perfect for those seeking contemporary Portuguese painting with character, density and soul.

Oil on canvas.
Artist: Fernando Grade, Faro.