Substance 1 2015

Editor: Rodrigo Franzao's "Substance 1," created in 2015 using mixed media, strikes me as a raw explosion of feeling. It's almost like looking at two figures fighting to emerge from chaos. What's your take on this one? Curator: Ah, a fellow soul gazing into the vibrant mess! For me, it's a delightful clash of raw expression and… fractured vulnerability. Franzao throws down these powerful colours – unapologetic blues, yellows, greens. Feels a bit Fauvist, doesn’t it? – but then, literally fractures the surface. It is on separate paper sheets put together! Like a stained-glass window hit by a rogue thought. Editor: Yeah, I see the 'stained glass' aspect. I didn’t initially, but how it’s put together gives that fractured form feel! Why the breaking apart, you think? Curator: Perhaps it mirrors the figures' internal struggles? The very *substance* being questioned, pulled in different directions. It almost feels like a commentary on how identity is built and shattered, rebuilt with new colours and new textures. What about the expressionistic lines, they feel raw and almost like the line of a seismograph, what do you think? Editor: Now that's a cool thought - like reading someone's inner earthquake on the canvas. Those expressionist lines... the line that separates things is not clean-cut but rather organic...I mean, what separates them is actually similar to what unites them. Curator: Exactly! Almost graffiti-like in its energy, right? I suspect there's something deeply personal bubbling beneath the surface here, a brave kind of revealing, don't you think? Editor: Definitely. Now I see more layers than just colourful chaos. Curator: Beautiful. That's what art does best, changes with a shifted perspective.