S.Alves
THE SUBJECTIVE EXPRESSIONISM
S.ALVES (1958) - The Subjective Painting in Expressionism
Over the last 10 years, S.ALVES has sought a new way of painting contextualizing with a cross- sectional view between real and abstract. With this starting point, he has sought to develop a different style of painting, which it defines as SUBJECTIVE EXPRESSIONISM.
S.ALVES believes that SUBJECTIVE EXPRESSIONISM is trying to break free from the fire of the last 10 years. However, this artists personal vision leads him to a different way of looking at contemporary painting.
In 2001, S.ALVES meets a Portuguese painter residing in Paris, who invites him to paint together in his studio in the Montparnasse distric, and between 2002 and 2004 the visits to Paris become more frequent. At this stage, S.ALVES believed that his work had an incredible improvement, about the Light, Black and White, Creative Freedom and a new way of looking at the Natural Space of the canvas.
During his travel to Brooklyn-NY in December 2014, he visits a few nightclubs and meets the band “Jazz Quartet”, playing David Brubeck “Time Out”. This rustic and modern scenario, encourages him to rethink the concept of the Abstract Expressionism; in New York.
Returning to Lisbon, S.ALVES concentrates on the history of the European Expressionist movement and started to asking to himself if there is something is missing about a new point of view regards Contemporary Painting.
In 2017, S.ALVES begins to develop what he believes to be a new style, named "The Subjectivity of Painting in Expressionism" or "The Subjective Expressionism".
This is because S.ALVES understands that figurative drawing, geometrical drawing of objects, drawn landscape and still life are artistic concepts, which in modern times and in collective
movement thinking are losing space for the new generations in which everything is disposable.
So, S.ALVES seeks, through painting, to follow this actual tendency and the way of seeing things, from the old and new generations, as everything being considerably Subjective.
This is The Subjective Painting in Expressionism