Untitled, March 2013
Oil on paper
50 x 64 cm

Untitled

Tupi or not Tupi series, work 1, March 2013
Pen on paper
50 x 64 cm

Tupi or not Tupi series, work 1

Tupi or not Tupi series, work 2, March 2013
Pen on paper
50 x 64 cm

Tupi or not Tupi series, work 2

Tupi or not Tupi series, work 3, March 2013
Pen on paper
50 x 64 cm

Tupi or not Tupi series, work 3

It was a long time ago, longer now than it seems, in a place that perhaps you’ve seen in your dreams, March 2012
Pen on paper
40 x 30 cm

It was a long time ago

Untitled, March 2013
Charcoal on paper
48 x 61 cm

Untitled, March 2013
Acrylic on paper
50 x 64 cm

Paraíso à venda, work 2, March 2013
Pencil and colored pen on paper
50 x 64 cm

Paraíso à venda

Paraíso à venda, work 1, March 2013
Pencil and colored pen on paper
50 x 64 cm

Closure, March 2013
Charcoal on paper
48 x 61 cm

Closure

Untitled, March 2013
Pen on paper
55 x 70 cm

Mistura Religiosa, March 2013
Charcoal on paper
48 x 61 cm

Mistura Religiosa

Working hands, March 2013
Mixed media on paper (watercolor, colored pencil and pen)
50 x 64 cm

Working hands

Sala das Velas (Igreja Aparecida, São Paulo), March 2013
Oil on paper
50 x 64 cm

Sala das Velas

Work part of Idrawalot Gallery Collection.

Title: Naiá
(based on the Brazilian folk-legend ‘vitória-régia’)

Medium: Mixed Media

Date: Jan. 2012

Naiá

Title: Self-portrait study with oils

Medium: Oil in canvas

Size: 30 inches x 42 inches

Date: Feb. 2012

Status: SOLD

Self-portrait study with oils

Work part of Rotebete Kunst Collection.
Also part of the exhibition "Despir-se", at Speakeasy Sprachzeug venue.

Medium: Graphite

Date: Feb. 2012

http://www.speakeasy-sprachzeug.com/en/

http://www.rotebetekunst.de/en/artist/mariana-moreira


The Lovers

Wonderful collaboration with The Illuminator Online Magazine.

Title of Series: European Disillusion
Date: April 2012

“In collaboration with The Illuminator, Brazilian born artist Mariana Amaral explores her own personal perceptions of the European Union through a series of work. She talks us through each piece, revealing an insight into the way in which inspiration is drawn from the political sphere.”

Personal statement about the work: Like an arranged marriage, destined to be tied together from the first days of the French and German cooperation in the European community, they put forward the facade of a conventional partnership. The pants, the dress, with a strong, authoritative father to lead them and with a mother – whose feet don’t seem to stay on the ground – to console the children and to keep up appearances for the other nations… Of course, since children are not mature enough to decide their lives for themselves, the parents are needed to keep them from mistakes.
And, when the children make yet another mistake, like good parents, these two leaders of the house take away their children’s autonomy in order to, ‘do right by the children’. Spare the rod, spoil the child.

“For the sake of the family” is a satire about the EU family, where the political ‘marriage’ between the representatives of France and Germany for the sake of others is given a literal meaning.

European Disillusion - For the sake of the family

Wonderful collaboration with The Illuminator Online Magazine.

Title of Series: European Disillusion
Date: April 2012

"In collaboration with The Illuminator, Brazilian born artist Mariana Amaral explores her own personal perceptions of the European Union through a series of work. She talks us through each piece, revealing an insight into the way in which inspiration is drawn from the political sphere."

Personal statement about the work:  “Let’s invite our starving cousins to the European table; it’s only the humane, brotherly thing to do, of course. And while we’re at it, we’ll pool our value together, so we can all eat richer food. Oh wait, our cousins cannot afford it? Well, they’d better, because we have economic needs which require power and might in the economic sphere. And if our cousins end up eating scraps from under the table, well so be it. At least they are eating better than they were before.”

“Vladimir told you so” portrays both sides of a contradictory political view of the Euro: the blindness of some against the surrendered personification of poverty.

European Disillusion - Vladimir told you so

Wonderful collaboration with The Illuminator Online Magazine.

Title of Series: European Disillusion
Date: April 2012

"In collaboration with The Illuminator, Brazilian born artist Mariana Amaral explores her own personal perceptions of the European Union through a series of work. She talks us through each piece, revealing an insight into the way in which inspiration is drawn from the political sphere."

Personal statement about the work:  While squares and cubes are useful, an obsession with such things must have something Freudian about it. While the fetishism has its uses to achieve a pleasurable end for some people, for others, it’s quite uncomfortable. Generally, when you have so many partners, you try to have a pleasurable situation for all included, or you just don’t stage the situation at all. Too bad the EU doesn’t have a ‘safe word’.

“One must fit to be part” portrays the uncomfortable feeling that comes from the necessity of fitting into a box, an idea, a concept, a shape or, if one may say, an economic and political union.

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