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Painting by Bruno Neves, "Fulgor" (Glow) (2021). Inaugural work of the Glows (Fulgores) series. Geometric composition in vibrant yellow, light green, and ochretones. The image shows the full canvas, focusing on the contrast between color blocks and the palette's luminosity.

Painting by Bruno Neves, Crates (Engradados) 17 (2025). Rhythmic grid composition with vibrant color blocks (yellow, blue, red, and purple) on a white background. The image highlights the irony of the grid and a chromatic vibration reflecting global contemporary art trends.

Painting by Bruno Neves, Excavations (Escavações) series (2024). Composition in bluish-gray and off-white tones evoking the visuality of steel doors. The image highlights the structure's undoing through graphite incisions and crayon strokes, where modern grid rigor seems to collapse into a material mist.

Painting by Bruno Neves, Glows (Fulgores) series (2024). Geometric composition in lilac, purple, and mauve tones, with horizontal and vertical color fields. At the top, a small white semi-circular detail breaks the linearity. The oil and dust texture creates a matte, tactile surface.

Diagonal installation view of Bruno Neves' exhibition "Starting Line" ("Linha de Partida"). The photo highlights the spatial dialogue between the Palimpsest (Palimpsesto) (110x110 cm) and Glows (Fulgores) (30x30 cm) series. Separated by an architectural element, the works reveal Neves' compositional evolution, where the monumentality of Palimpsest (Palimpsesto) derives from the chromatic synthesis of Glows (Fulgores). A study on scale and contemporary abstraction.

Horizontal painting by Bruno Neves, From Concrete to Liquid (Do Concreto ao Líquido) series (2015). The composition articulates a rigorous and rhythmic geometry, where black, gray, and cream planes meet at precise angles evoking an urban or architectural horizon. The work operates on the threshold between figuration and abstraction, featuring a dense oil filling that contrasts the solidity of dark masses with the luminosity of the central field.

Painting by Bruno Neves Glows (Fulgores) series, 2025, showcased in the group exhibition "The silence of tradition" ("O silêncio da tradição"). Geometric composition in ochre, beige, and sea-green tones, highlighting horizontal balance and chromatic sobriety.
Featured painting by Bruno Neves from the Glows (Fulgores) series, exhibited at Centro Maria Antônia - USP (2025). Work published in Revista Celeste with a critical essay by Gabriel San Martin. The composition explores ochre and yellow tones with rigorous chromatic sedimentation, standing as an icon of new Brazilian art and a high-value piece for contemporary painting collectors.

Painting by Bruno Neves, Marari Village (Vila Marari) series (2024). A vertical composition transfiguring the neighborhood's urban landscape into soft, planar shapes. The image highlights the layering of buildings in pastel pink, blue, and gray tones, suggesting a fragile and poetic architecture operating on the threshold of abstraction.

Abstract geometric painting by Bruno Neves, Glows (Fulgores) series (2025). Composition in muted pink, pale blue, and gray tones, divided into horizontal and vertical rectangular fields. The oil and dust on canvas technique provides a velvety, matte texture to the surface.

Vertical painting by Bruno Neves, From Concrete to Liquid (Do Concreto ao Líquido) series (2016). The work features a vast surface of grayish and off-white tones operating on the threshold between figuration and abstraction. Through a malleable filling of oil and dust, the solidity of forms is dissolved into a fluid mass, leaving only dark traces at the edges that suggest the base of a structure in the process of liquefaction.

Painting by Bruno Neves, Excavations (Escavações) series (2024). Inaugural work marked by a rhythm of incisions that transpose the structure of urban steel doors onto the pictorial plane. The image highlights a dynamic and intentionally gritty visuality, where deep grooves reveal underlying layers and transform geometry into pure material gesture.

Painting Crates (Engradados) 15 (2025) by Bruno Neves. Oil, graphite, and masking tape on canvas (30x30 cm). The work redefines the grid in Brazilian art by introducing the "virtual fold", where layers of color and tape conceal an underlying composition. A radical investigation transcending the geometric tradition of masters like Sued and Andrade, positioning Neves at the forefront of global contemporary painting.

Painting by Bruno Neves, Situations (Situações) series (2025). Night or eclipse landscape, with a dense black sky and a road cutting through the plane toward the horizon. The image highlights the radical contrast between the dark sky, the pale pink ground, and an absolute black mass at the base, acting as an abstract cutout.

Painting by Bruno Neves (Glows (Fulgores) series, 2025), featured in the solo exhibition "Starting Line" ("Linha de Partida") at Contempo Gallery (Galeria Contempo). Geometric composition in bluish-gray and white tones, with thin reddish lines on the edges. The image highlights the formal rigor and sobriety of the full canvas.

Painting by Bruno Neves, "Styx and Acheron" ("Estige e Aqueronte") (Palimpsest (Palimpsesto) series, 2022-2025). Monumental composition in vibrant red and earth tones. The image highlights the thick oil surface with dense horizontal incisions and a complex upper zone of gray and pink overlaps, challenging the rigid structure of form.

Front view of Bruno Neves' exhibition "Starting Line" ("Linha de Partida"), highlighting three works from the Excavations (Escavações) series. The layout reveals the scale interplay between 50x50 cm and 30x30 cm formats, showcasing an investigation into materiality and space. Curated by Gabriel San Martin, the series is presented as a study of sensitive geometry and pictorial depth in contemporary Brazilian art.

Square oil painting by Bruno Neves. The image is dominated by large color blocks in seafoam green and faded turquoise tones, which appear to subtly drip downward. At the top, a horizontal band of earthy ochre presses against the composition. The shapes are rounded and the edges between colors are blurred, evoking a malleable and dense mass that challenges geometric rigidity.
Painting by Bruno Neves, Tire shop (Borracharia) series (2024), exhibited at Millan Gallery (Galeria Millan), current Almeida & Dale. The work, in vibrant turquoise and deep green tones, utilizes oil, gesso, and dust to investigate the synthesis between urban space and abstraction. A standout piece of contemporary Brazilian painting with market validation and critical acclaim by Antônio Gonçalves Filho.

Contemporary painting by Bruno Neves, Structures (Estruturas) series (2024). The work features a rich sedimentation of brushstrokes in pastel, lavender, and ochre tones, integrating oil, gesso, and dust. The composition organizes space through a grid of lines supporting vibrant color fields, evoking an atmospheric and tactile luminosity.

Painting by Bruno Neves, Situations (Situações) series (2025). Park landscape with a dense sky in Caput Mortuum variations. At the center, a perspectival shape suggests a walkway or pool, interrupted by a gray bar at the base that breaks the figuration through a physical incision.

Painting by Bruno Neves, Palimpsest (Palimpsesto) series (2025). Composition in deep black tones with subtle touches of red and green, with horizontal modules in pale pink and cream. Striking horizontal incisions in the central right module of this work reveal hidden layers beneath the surface. At the edges of each vertical module, a line is noticeable, generated not by the presence but by the absence of paint; in some horizontal modules, incisions at the edges separate each module.

Installation view of Bruno Neves' solo exhibition "Starting Line" ("Linha de Partida") Contempo Gallery (Galeria Contempo), 2025. The image showcases the panorama of the new series Excavations (Escavações), Glows (Fulgores), and Palimpsest (Palimpsesto), highlighting the transition from small-format delicacy to the monumentality of 110x110 cm canvases. A landmark of contemporary Brazilian painting curated by Gabriel San Martin.

Crates (Engradados) 14, 2024. Oil, gesso, wax, and graphite on canvas, 40 x 30 cm. Work sold by Contempo Gallery (Galeria Contempo). This painting subverts the grid tradition through a dense, opaque materiality, where the use of wax and gesso creates a tactile surface that resists depth. The structure of 24 rectangular modules establishes a rhythmic and chromatic pulsation, where serial repetition is tensioned by gestures suggesting a challenged sobriety and a deliberately saturated visuality, typical of a virtualized perception.

Oil painting by Bruno Neves, emerging Brazilian artist. Structures (Estruturas) series (2024). The work explores urban geometry through reddish tones and subtractive lines evoking scaffolding and support structures. A study on structural weight and formal abstraction in contemporary South American art.

Vertical painting by Bruno Neves, titled Blitz (2023), Structures (Estruturas) series. The work features a bluish-gray surface saturated by frenetic and visceral graphism that evokes the urgency of scribbling and the layering of urban information. A study on movement and erasure in emerging Brazilian art.

Painting by Bruno Neves, Cocytus (Cócito) (Palimpsest (Palimpsesto) series, 2025). Monumental composition in deep green and black tones. The image highlights the thick and extremely smooth oil surface, pierced by rhythmic horizontal incisions in the central modules that reveal the archaeology of the layers.

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