Coletiva de Pinturas do grupo de artistas da Galeria Uffici: Ana Veloso, Fernando Ferreira de Araujo, Julieta Pontes, Plinio Palhano e Pragana.

Review by Artist Showdown:

The Uffici Gallery, in Recife - Brazil,  is officially  opening its 2009 exhibition program with a group show on Tuesday, March 10Th. There will be five artists displaying a total of 12 works. Yet All five artists, Fernando Ferreira de Araujo, Plinio Palhano, Julieta Pontes, Carlos Pragana and Ana Veloso, have a unique hallmark and the show has no specific theme, all art-pieces dialogue almost seamless. Texture, depth, bold and fast strokes seem to be a common ground among these contemporary artists. They tend to avoid any means of association with any art movement, however it's impossible not to recognize the influence the American Abstract Expressionism has had in most of them. Embodied by the passionate way of the Brazilian soul, the influence we see almost dissipates in a style of its own.