Meia’s practice is grounded in his research around landscape painting, its forms, history, and meanings. Meia’s landscapes begin to take shape through the artist’s movements, whether through his travels along the streets or through his circles of affection. Both circuits equip the artist with materials for the elaboration of his paintings. In the street, he identifies, selects, and collects elements with constructive potential; from his affection, he is presented with elements that carry tonic and symbolic qualities.
His compositions, therefore, are based on grids that detach from rationality, order, and neutrality, to develop from contextual subjectivities, the fragmentation of stories, and hybridism. Although his constructions are based on collages of materials with different intrinsic values, his practice includes classic and noble painting techniques and materials, such as encaustic, oil paint, oil stick, and charcoal. These materials coexist with assemblages of different papers, leathers, fabrics, pieces of towels, epoxy paint, hardware scraps, and felts, all in search of pictorial elaborations.
The themes of his paintings bring this myriad of elements together in the representation of horizons structured by roads. These paths reflect the observer’s journey in search of the multiple stories that make up his scenes.
Meia’s practice is grounded in his research around landscape painting, its forms, history, and meanings. Meia’s landscapes begin to take shape through the artist’s movements, whether through his travels along the streets or through his circles of affection. Both circuits equip the artist with materials for the elaboration of his paintings. In the street, he identifies, selects, and collects elements with constructive potential; from his affection, he is presented with elements that carry tonic and symbolic qualities.
His compositions, therefore, are based on grids that detach from rationality, order, and neutrality, to develop from contextual subjectivities, the fragmentation of stories, and hybridism. Although his constructions are based on collages of materials with different intrinsic values, his practice includes classic and noble painting techniques and materials, such as encaustic, oil paint, oil stick, and charcoal. These materials coexist with assemblages of different papers, leathers, fabrics, pieces of towels, epoxy paint, hardware scraps, and felts, all in search of pictorial elaborations.
The themes of his paintings bring this myriad of elements together in the representation of horizons structured by roads. These paths reflect the observer’s journey in search of the multiple stories that make up his scenes.