Contemporary Artist
This painting represents the moment of pleasure and the sensations of the Cyclops after having tasted the rich delicacy of wine, it looks like a stomach dance of several Cyclops full of liquor. This painting is a little different from the others, as if it were unfinished, as the artist wanted to highlight the play of textures that the tannins created naturally.
Empatia + Popis&Vital + Chinese ink + saffron + bleach
52 x 42
2024
“Rock pushing” as the translation in english, narrates the moment when Polyphemus throws a stone at Ulysses, who is already in the sea, this stone is thrown by the monster with the intention of attacking, but what ends up happening is that it helps the hero to meet the rest of the ships and companions, to continue their journey.
In this painting, we can appreciate all the tension pushing us towards the right side, whether through the bulging eyes that seem to look in the direction of a possible head almost like an arrow – a sea animal?, the ship where Ulysses and the rest of the survivors are going? – how this same shape leans towards this end of the picture. We would say that the escape is completed by the lack of hospitality.
Empatia + Popis&Vital + Chinese ink + bleach
53 x 38
2024
Èlea is olive tree in ancient Greek. This work is about the passage in which Odysseus and his companions prepare the weapon to blind Polyphemus, after having gotten him drunk. In this painting, Ulysses is at the bottom of the painting, highlighting his look at Polyphemus and the thought that comes out of the central part of his head, that is, the rational one. It is worth highlighting Oliveira’s two saffron bars, which represent the hero’s defense against the monster.
Empatia + Popis&Vital + Chinese ink + saffron+bleach
52 x 42
2024
Whispers is the moment when Odysseus tells his companions the trap he is going to prepare for Polyphemus. In this image, elegance and simplicity stand out, there are almost no textures, only in the main eye.
Empatia + Popis&Vital + Chinese ink
30.5 x 21.5
2024
This painting depicts the moment of Polyphemus’ blindness and Odysseus’s escape from the cave. In the upper right part of the painting, Polyphemus’s blindness is again depicted, with blood dripping from the painting’s main eye, and in the lower left part of the painting, Odysseus is shown with large legs as he flees into the sea.
Empatia + Vital + Chinese ink
51 x 41
2024
The representation of Neptune’s fury against Ulysses, motivated by Polyphemus’s desperate request and Telemus’s prophecy, offers a rich field for analysis. The image of an enraged sea god, unleashing his power over the seas and sending sea monsters to torment Odysseus, evokes powerful emotions and questions.
Empatia + Popis&Vital+ Chinese ink + saffron+ bleach
75 x 56.5
2024
Echo on the island, here is represented the moment in which Polyphemus asks for help from the rest of the island’s Cyclopes once he was attacked by Ulysses (Odysseus), highlighting again the representation of a slightly bucolic animal with a large eye and beneath it the rest of the Cyclopes, with the typical geopolitical texture, once again representing their nomadic movement.
Empatia + Vital + Chinese inkÂ
21.5 x 30.5
2024
“The gesture of Olissipo”, represents the city of Lisbon, so named in Roman times, but which has its origins in one of Ulysses’ journeys when he arrived in Ophiusa, an adventure that gave rise to the seven/eight hills of the capital, which rise from the city itself. queen- half-serpent, half-woman- Ophiussa’s pursuit of Ulysses when she failed to reach him, her multiple serpent arms became the city’s hills, an evocation of this founding myth. There are also other symbols that mention the city as the fetus. at the top, which means birth, and the sardine in the cyclops’ eye, one of the city’s great icons.
Empatia + Vital + Chinese inkÂ
74×104.5
2024
“On the walls of the stomach” represents the moment in which Polyphemus swallows some of Ulysses’ companions. It highlights the central dark stain where the Chinese ink seems to scratch the monster’s walls, representing the despair of the new tenants.
Empatia + Popis&Vital + Chinese ink + Bleach
53.5 x 63.5
2024
“Uranic Islands”, in this painting represents the moment in which the Cyclops Brontes frees himself from the land Gaia, the prison to which Uranus had subjected his children. The work is divided into two large areas, in the lower part Gaia is represented, as an icon of the cage, here once again the earth is represented as a political map, managing to represent the nomadic movement with these textures and in the upper part is the moment in which Brontes frees himself from his mother, making a call to attention in the central circle, a symbol of the union between the Cyclops and his mother.
Empatia + Popis&Vital + Chinese ink + saffron
44.5 x 61.5
