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"For me, painting is a necessary activity above all else - to explore my inner depths in search of beautiful and balanced imagery, is like cleansing my soul.
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"Over the past twenty years, I've been working in art direction and set design for Brazilian motion pictures. I enjoy creating alongside the director, and love the process of filmmaking because it is such a collective task. For me, the art of film is the most important aspect of all. Between the harried schedule of Brazilian film productions, I find painting to be an exercise of deceleration - the reconstitution of a personal creative space, rather than the collective space of film. It is in painting that I can exert control, searching for the best, seeking balance. <br><br>
"My interest in painting first arose during my youth, during the time of the Artisan Fair of Belo Horizonte, when it began to take shape. I had a lot of friends who were artists and painters that started the artistic movement in the capital of the state of Minas Gerais. I used to roughly sketch out the mountainous landscapes of Minas Gerais. Later on I moved to Rio de Janeiro in search of what existed behind those mountains, of the ample horizons along the sea's edge. I abandoned a course I was taking in agronomy to begin studying architecture. <br><br>
"To have a place to exhibit my works stimulates creativity; I paint so that my art may be seen, I paint to create something pleasurable for the eyes. The great part about Novica is that it makes art from one world available for another."