A pair of scissors that we sometimes use to cut paper, whole grain biscuits that we crunch absent-mindedly, bath towels, caps, grapes, nuts and lettuce leaves... To most of us, these are just obvious, familiar objects. But to Victor Nunes they are small, essential pieces of a bigger picture - art fragments imbued with beauty and harmony. Because it takes an artist's eyes to find some magic where we usually see, well, just 'things'. Small, ordinary things that we all have at home.
Yet sometimes art hides right under our nose - that's the simple and powerful message of Victor's pieces. Portuguese-born and currently living in Sao Paulo, Brasil, he turned 65 but he still manages to see the world with naive eyes. Technically, his works are the result of what you might call a pareidolia, that is to say a psychological phenomenon that induces us to see something significant in apparently random shapes - like animals or faces in clouds.
In Victor's unique illustrations, these random shapes give birth to bizzarre imaginary worlds and characters permeated with with subtle irony - scissors become bicycles, a lettuce leaf turns into an opulent night gown, a pop corn looks just like a baby elephant and coffee grounds are the eyes of funny face. An amazing art of everyday objects that invites us to look around us with the open eyes and the creative mind of a child.
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