English version: Francisco Brennand

Francisco Brennand was an artist who investigated telluric forces and the immemorial mysteries of creation. Influenced by ancient myths, literature, philosophy and science, he thought of his art as a reflection about primordial origins, the cycles of life, earthly organizations and the continuous metamorphosis of matter. In his practice, Brennand embraced existential paradoxes – the aristocratic legacy and the popular impetus, the modern and the archaic, the erudite and the intuitive, the industrial and the artistic – giving birth to a baroque of his own, with a style marked by outlines, textures and specific colors. His work, as dense as it is prolific, is populated by natural elements, mythological figures and archetypal forms. Whether in the sketches and designs for his sculptures, in his ceramics or in his greatest work – the Oficina Francisco Brennand –, it is possible to see a combination of the technical rigor of industry with the indomitable artistic freedom and the aspiration to embody beings and large spaces beyond the limits of the object and of matter itself. His sculptures, often misshapen, strange and disturbing, connect the clay to the unfathomable abyss from which all things surge forth, affirming the unceasing transformation of life and the intrinsic connection of human beings with the whole.