The Pictorial Consequence

Caio Fern , acrylic on canvas 2012

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Caio Fern , acrylic on canvas 2012

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Caio Fern, acrylic on canvas 2011

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I confess I’ve been a bit satisfied lately with my work ( of painting ).

I believe that I have condensed elements into a more focused way of expression.

The intention towards the works never was to represent anything, but to express the feelings generated during the process of the individual having to deal with itself.

I try to avoid the description of ideas, facts and concepts, what is hard to do when it is about figurative painting, and more, representational art….. as I don’t intend to represent anything, only to use the external light reflected by skin and its volumes on my own face as model for painting.

The real intention behind the works is producing expression by itself. Expression of individual issues behind the struggle for self development and self improvement, but making the artwork to become as independent as possible from the author on its feelings, life and destiny.

I always believed that pictorial values by its plots would be enough for all my needs. But during the whole year of 2011 I focused on composition of the image as a way to increase the conversation among an intention of anti-space, pictorial values, and the viewer.

The intention of denying the external space where the main figure is the only subject is still there and got a new and deeper level of intensity now. It opened the possibility to explore with more efficiency internal spaces found into the individual nature and its process self-discovering and fighting to become reformed, remodeled. Even so one of my earlier concerns was the doubt if exploring more internal spaces the image would naturally spread all over and lose its focus into itself. But I am glad to report that by a not so big effort it didn’t happen, as a matter of fact was the opposite, I have never been able to develop an image into itself as I’ve done lately.

I still have some issues to solve that haven’t made me totally satisfied and again for being able to reach what I need I will have to turn my attention to the improvement of the pictorial values always having in mind I can not lose the achievements obtained my the improvement of the composition.

The problem of the composition is creativity. I always saw creativity as an obstacle and diversion for the purest form of self expression. As I said , pictorial values should be able to deal with all my needs of expression and make the work be able to live by itself. But I confess the creativity demanded by the efforts for composing an image has given me a bigger offer for exploring internal territories and has made easier to deal with the image, maybe creativity is an escape from my main target. I don’t know if its is a phase or if it is another characteristic of my work’s nature that is coming to stay definitely. I say definitely because these characteristics aren’t new, you can observe then on the whole trajectory of my work with more emphasis on the years of 2001 and 2002. But I believe that on all the periods it has appeared in a more or less obvious way.

So in fact I didn’t produce anything really new on 2011, only improved or got more aware of characteristics I have denied for years or simply didn’t feel the necessity to work so hard on it giving the attention I think now it deserves.

CUT -
On these works I intended to only make the main figure have to deal with itself in a way the space around isn't necessary to be present.
On my paintings over the years ( the last 12 years ) the space around the main figure painted on raw canvasses is denied but here it is totally excluded.
These characteristics are always happening for the same reason. To isolate the individual from the environment and make it be forced to only deal with itself.

2011 has been a year where I only kept pushing harder what I was doing during 2010. Harder and more intense.
If 2010 was a year where I broke the "pure" Mein Welt aesthetic mixing it with the values of my earlier years and generating a new way to dig deeper what I have searched for the last 12 years, 2011 has been the moment where I take it all and focus on the main target narrowing into very personal view of the individual as spiritual and psychological being.
The relationship with the external world is only noticed by the way the matter reflects the material light and the effects it has under the psychological developing and movements.
...But , It has been one month or so that I don't paint, I feel I have lost even more control of this process I have never controlled anyway. I am Feeling that soon I will go back to studio but I have no idea of what is going to happen or what direction the work will want to take.
Hope you like these works.... at least we can say that the 2011 production so far can turn into an solo exhibition already. I feel lazy... but when I see what I've done , I am not so lazy.
thank you all that have supported and followed my work this year.

the Art Magazine Caixa Lote published Caio Fern on the Second Issue.

2011-12-12T02:30:00.000-08:00

http://www.caixalote.com/

the Art Magazine Caixa Lote, published Caio Fern on the Second Issue

The Brazilian art magazine Caixa Lote based in São Paulo has released its second edition and you can find my work on the pages 55, 56 and 57.

Thank you all folks , you're the best.
OBRIGADO !

http://www.caixalote.com/

MEIN WELT - the new book by Caio Fern

2011-11-16T07:11:00.000-08:00

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2476516

yey !!! finally,
I just published the book MEIN WELT !
I have worked on it since October 2010.
I am really happy with it , since the beginning it was supposed to be a fancy pretty and a bit expensive book, but it worths every single penny. The book is beautiful, touching and absolute not logical. Typical Mein Welt.
Life couldn't be better. I am so grateful that I was able to produce and publish it , a real dream, a real miracle.

You that are more intimate of my work , this blog and Mein Welt in general can understand much more about the book.

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2476516

Book concerned to register the Mein Welt Culture with poetry and beauty, its characters, ornaments, architecture, furniture, cuisine and other aspects of this little town hidden among sunny and cold mountains ( or just "Up There" ). Photography, Painting, Drawing, Sculpture by Caio Fern.

this is the link :

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2476516

Caio Fern - the site Kaleidoskop

2011-10-19T11:07:00.000-07:00

Now there is Caio Fern on the site kaleidoskop.

this is a very good place to know new artists.

check the link.

http://kaleidoskop-art.com/index.php?content=2

kaleidoskop is an independent project and exhibition space, opening its doors to all artists and designers. Whether you are experienced or just starting out, kaleidoskop is a good opportunity to show your work and to connect with other creative minds. As its name states, this space is a convergence point for art from all backgrounds: illustration, video-art, graphic design or experimental installations. There are no pre-defined borders to this project. kaleidoskop offers the possibility to experiment and be inspired, to be a blank page, gallery or meeting point for artists and designers.

Neukölln’s blossoming art scene is the perfect location to join Berlin’s inspiring creative side and kaleidoskop offers a welcoming space for networking and collaborations. Please stop by or share your ideas and inspiration.

Sweet Station posting about Caio Fern !

2011-10-05T07:14:00.001-07:00

http://sweet-station.com/blog/2011/10/caio-fern/

Hi Everyone !!!!
this site SWEET STATION has my work posted today by Honey that wrote very nice words about.
Thank you Honey.
Sweet Station is a nice place to know new artists and creative people that produces in the aesthetical area in general.
Hope you have fun visiting it.
http://sweet-station.com/blog/2011/10/caio-fern/

Art of the Day - Saatchi on Line - 7/24/2011 - Caio Fern

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This work was chosen as Art of Day at Saatchi on Line, the site of the Saatchi Gallery.

http://www.saatchionline.com/art/Painting-Acrylic-No-Tittle/85288/1309748/view

2010 - when the earlier painting values from the year 2000 to 2002 were taken back and recreated.

2011-06-28T10:18:00.000-07:00

2010 - when the earlier painting values from the year 2000 to 2002 were taken back and recreated.

This 2010 year was very important to my production. I kept a good regularity in my studio, published two books about my paintings and wrote an entire novel published in October.
About the painting, I felt that was taken back some values and concepts worked during the years of 2000, 2001 and 2002 and adding with everything I had made on the last years. Colors , pictorial values and the return to focusing on psychological and spiritual search allowing the brush strokes and plots being manifested by itself while I wasn't so concerned with the subject represented. Sure that what was made during the year of 2008 and 2009 still appears on this production in a very obvious way.... what isn't happening with the current 2001 paintings I have made now at the time I right this text.
So I believe that 2010 decisions have been fundamental to what have happened in my studio now ( June 2011 ).
Most part of the painting exhibited on this post give me huge pleasure , satisfaction and makes me wonder how I am going to develop my work from then. At the end of 2010 I was very happy with what I got in my studio. I hope you enjoy it .

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Kikked Magazine published Caio Fern

2011-03-31T13:37:00.000-07:00

Kikked Magazine is about visual art in general and on their Feb 2001 Issue 8 they published about my work.
Thank you Kikked !!!
From Damien Hirst to Buenos Aires street art many things can be found on this issue.

http://kikked.com/

SLAM FAD #140- Caio Fern: From Mein Welt, With Love - Slam Magazine by Terri Lloyd .

2011-02-22T04:39:00.000-08:00

SLAM FAD #140- Caio Fern: From Mein Welt, With Love
Slam Magazine .
SLAM FAD #140- Caio Fern: From Mein Welt, With Love
by Terri Lloyd
© Caio Fern

SLAM: Caio, you were born in Brazil and you studied psychology at Universidade Paulista. When did you become an artist? And how does your education influence your work?

C - As a matter of fact I was already producing visual art before to decide about college and what to study. When I started to work with the intention of producing something for real ( 1995 ) I was 20 years old and experimented many medias including computers and technology related materials. Psychology was a choice I took because believed that it would give me a better way to go deeper into the art work . I never had the intention of being a professional psychologist, only worked with this for few years and dropped. So my art has influence on my scientific way to deal with myself . Studying it helped me to see human being in a less romantic way and with less ideologies too. I can say the science gave me a good level of freedom to explore myself with no conceptual excuses.

© Caio Fern

SLAM: It’s been stated that you are sometimes described as a realist with a highly individualistic style. How you do see yourself and your work? Do you find this assessment accurate or is this just another label to perhaps help us cope with the deeper intensity and exploration of your works?

C - I don’t mind when people talks about realism when see my work . I think it is funny . I am laughing now. It isn’t wrong at all. All my paintings are result of observation . Light can give all that is necessary for self expression . I really try to do not be creative . I believe that creativity is a weakness, a resource you use when aren’t able to deal with things the way they are . It happens with me, sometimes I have to go beyond of what is considered reality . But it is still real . There is no lie or fiction. Is only reality by other angle . My way to see and deal with reality is extremely subjective and lonely. When I look to my works… they are hipper-realistic to me. But I get surprised when see people calling that realism or “a kind of realism” . I really didn’t expect that people would be able to see this way . Most part doesn’t .

© Caio Fern

SLAM: You have stated that “the intention of your work is to be impressive exactly by the fact that it has nothing impressive about this.” Is this minimalist or do you find this to be perhaps more aligned with a zen, if you will, type of intent?

C - I don’t like to see me as a minimalist , even less with the 20Th century’s concept of it . Because this idea would never allow me to go further and deeper into my work if was adopted, it would never fulfill my needs . About art today, it is the opposite, it is trying to impress too much .It seems that it is made for teenagers, maybe because is a very immature society . It is extremely Rococo and at the end all you have is thousands of exhibition with very impressive works that doesn’t feed, making you go back home with that feeling of “whatever”. It is all shallow . Even more with Tumblr , Flickr, blogs, so many art-fairs , biennials….. where you have to capture the viewer as fast as possible making it easy to digest . Art has became something very similar, if not identical , advertisement . I only want to develop a work with no frames or ornaments inside it . Simple and direct … but that allows the viewer to have a long relationship with it for many years . If sometimes my painting causes impact, I want to make it sure that has much more than this, that you can look to this for your entire life and will always discover and rediscover the work. Sounds contradictory , I know, being direct , simple and at the same time having so many layers of perception to be experimented for years .

© Caio Fern

SLAM:”Reductive” is also a word you’ve used in relation to your work. So is “a lack of spice.” How so?

C - Yes , Reductive is what I believe the best way to describe my work . It has the intention to reduces the feelings and attention of the viewer towards a target . There is nothing else, only focuses on that and go deep . Any distraction is going to be allowed . That is the reason I choose this word as the name of one of my books . Lack of spices is pretty much about this too . It is interesting you put the both expressions here together .

© Caio Fern

SLAM: This is a fabulously audacious thing to say, ” …only mediocre people produce with no pretentious [pretense]. Art is about pretentious [pretense], is about to go beyond. Even my smaller drawings has the pretentious [pretense] of an entire empire.”

Do you think artists today are losing the pretense or vision of their individual empire’s? And why do you think this is?

C - This is a thing that annoys me a lot about my culture . Everything here is too Bossanova , everybody wants a easy life with small inoffensive pleasures and any real commitment , any real target . Sometimes in Brazil the word ambition is seem as a sin . It has only created mediocre artists happy for spending the entire life doing plin plin on the piano or acoustic guitar singing about coconut water and teenager ass . With visual art isn’t different, everyone here only wants to follow some world’s trend because it is easier , pretty , correct , acceptable . When I get into my studio , I don’t accept anything nice or acceptable . I want to go beyond everything I have ever done and breed my own universe doesn’t matter the cost of it . On the entire world I see artists of all the generations and styles with that mentality of ” I want to do something cool” . Fuck the cool . I want something real ! If an artist hasn’t a very personal way to see him/herself and the world… so get out of my way, the world doesn’t need more people putting in practice the same values over and over again . We already have bad corporations and horrible governments doing that for us .

© Caio Fern

SLAM: What is particularly refreshing is to hear, read, you say how much you love your work. Often this is not a widely acceptable acknowledgement of what an artist does. Do you think it takes courage to be yourself, love yourself, love what you do? Or is this a necessary component to further exploration –of self, art and process?

C -I prefer to make clear that I need this as I need air . During the last decade I tried to give up of producing art and even hated art in general. But life forced me to keep doing it . At the hardest times only art was there by my side. It is very corny to say , hahah!! But is totally true . At the end the few real satisfaction I had in my life wasn’t traveling around the world or fucking a perfect pussy, helping poor people, planting trees and defending animal rights, eating a 4 cheese pizza, having friends …… but was finishing a good painting . How do I know if it is a good painting ? I only feel . It is very personal and I can’t say it applies to another artists , but all I need in my life only art can offer . I don’t know how sad or good it is … but that is the way it works with me .

© Caio Fern

SLAM: Something one notices when spending time with your works, is the influence of Punk Rock, Ramones, Misfits, Pettibon, in your work. Would you speak to SLAM readers about this?

C - One thing I really like is that when people talk with other artists about their influences they always talk about visual art , but when they talk with me about my influences names as Ramones and Misfits appears . Isn’t that great ?! hahah!!! I am serious , it really makes my day. The idea of Reductive came exactly because of punk rock : direct, intense and sincere . No guitar solos or frames , no bullshit . Cut off the crap . No conceptual excuses , no text behind . Do what must to be done and fuck off. About Raymond Petybon… I spent many years in my bed listening the albums and looking to the covers . His work was there in a way that was extremely good and reachable. I remember that my friends and I used to say : “He doesn’t look like an artist, he is real ” . Yes , I agree his work is very illustrative and sometimes even descriptive, but his ability to make the image “happens” used to fascinate me . Misfits , I think it is brilliant about everything, but Ramones is where you can find the real geniality . I like to tease people saying that Ramones is the only real form of art created on the 20Th century . I am only teasing and I know it really annoys everyone . But has some truth about this . If the Reductive idea found a form on the last century was with then . Everything that matters is there extremely concentrated. I still listen then in my studio, they are great teachers always helping me to do not lose the track .

© Caio Fern

SLAM: One would think that the influence of Punk might contribute to your statement regarding the importance of cheap supplies in the studio, “for you do not feel remorse to only sketch or try different things.” It is encouraging the artist to keep working and yet it also is a wonderful way of saying “ha ha fuck you, I’ve got pretense and cheap supplies!” Is this part of your underlying humor?

C - It made me remember now when I was starting to paint . I was very arrogant, almost as much as I am now .hahah!! I used to go to the galleries to see the exhibitions and I always got a smile on my face saying : “hahah!! my work is ten times better than this and cost 100 times less to be produced !!” The experience showed me in a fast way how important is to use really good material supplies for painting . Not only concerning about the way it looks and the possibilities for going deeper into that , but about the effects of time on it . I want to have a very well preserved work in the future . The idea of having cheaper supplies in the studio comes much more from the fact that I have no money to buy the best paints and canvasses all the time and it can make you stop before to do something you’re not sure about the results . So having cheaper stuff will help you do not have to think twice before to do anything. Do it and shut up , stop to complain about the money .

© Caio Fern

SLAM: Would you talk to us about Mein Welt? What is it? Where is it? How did this evolve?

C - Mein Welt . Long story in a very short way . In 2002 I isolated myself from the world in a dark old dusty haunting house for cleaning myself from my own life . I even left the art market , my last solo exhibition was in 2002 and after that year I wasn’t working with any gallery anymore . I started to paint again only in 2004 or something , and very few works . The Mein Welt idea was because I started to create an new universe to live with all the new values I was developing ( moral , ethical, aesthetically ). Exists my old humor inside this but I was really serious . Or I killed the world inside me and the life I had had or I would kill myself . I wouldn’t accept middle term . Mein Welt came when I was empty of all , it fulfilled my life . Was a search for a new life with beauty and peace . Something very rare when you are born and raised in Sao Paulo doesn’t matter you social class or origins . This was a period from 2004/5 to 2009. I realised in 2010 that I could keep my life going beyond of what was called Mein Welt , but it is the essence of what I live today , all my actual personal values for the everyday life were built on this period. Today this is my nationality . I consider myself a Welter , and intend even to take my own passport as a Welter very soon. When people asks me where I am from my answer is : “- From Mein Welt , sure , don’t you recognise by the typical accent ?”. Trust me , it isn’t a joke to me .

© Caio Fern

SLAM: You’ve written about how the Internet is changing the way we see art, how it influences art production, and that it also access to the learning about art. However, you’ve also stated to view art in person, is totally different relationship. (We agree!) That there is a physical power and presence when one is in front of art. But in front of a computer screen art is weak, boring.

Do you see this changing, and if so, how? Is this something that will get better over time, or something else all together?

C - Yes , it has changed . It has changed the way to see art , to discover new artists , to negotiate art , to study , to learn , to relate with art institutions and galleries, what is very good for somethings….. . About aesthetic values I won’t judge if it is going to be good or bad , but I am very optimist about it too. New medias and new ways to deal with the old ones are always welcome . I have met and talked with artists today that have produced only thinking about how it is going to look after posted on their blogs or pages . It isn’t bad at all. Not that I have any interest to produce thinking about how people will see it by their computers or whatever is the media they are going to use . I still paint for the person that is in front of the work . My only fear is that it starts to create more mainstream trends increasing gaps between artists with different productions in the market. What is very easy to happen and when I read blogs of art critics in general I start to feel this approach. It is interesting for art institutions , galleries , curators and critics to have as much people as possible thinking, doing and consuming the same . So Internet that so far has being a vehicle for alternative aesthetic values have a chance to exhibit itself and show that exists, what was almost impossible before, can be used to convince a larger number of people “what is good and what isn’t” or ” what must to be followed and what mustn’t” . I hope that collectors, new artists, and audience in general don’t be so stupid to fall into that .

© Caio Fern

SLAM – In this regard, you’ve stated, “I am here, producing what I want and sending a big FUCK YOU to the system. This is the sensation of the governments and corporations don’t want you to have…. this is the real freedom.” Are you an anarchist? Do you feel that art is perhaps a subversion from the norm, and act of anarchy?

C - Last week I send an email to a dear friend of mine saying how much I hate to be an outsider . I am an outsider because a guy that burns bridges, has a big mouth and more than everything : develops a work that is totally not related with any aesthetic or conceptual trend of the contemporary market … will not be invited to exhibit its work at the Tate Modern so soon. I don’t give a big FUCK YOU because is an ideal , but because this is what I do , simple like that . And nobody gave me the chance do NOT behave that way . I wish I was a very formal and conventional person shaking hands and having the work recognised as it should be . But is hasn’t happened so far . hahah!!! I don’t want to be part or apart of any “system” , I only believe that my work and I should be treated with more respect . But I have no doubt that art is the only human activity with power to subvert and norm . One of the facts that made me go to the college to study Psychology and not art , is because I didn’t want my name related with any academic art institution . DIY is something I take very seriously.

© Caio Fern

SLAM – Caio, you have also produced a couple of books. You wrote one, “Alemão.” It is described as a love story between two characters that grew up together and decided to give up of understanding or belonging to the world creating their own values and life style… the novel exposes contemporary values by the point of view of who lives at the other side of the concept of globalization and new world.

That’s a powerful statement. Would this reflect some of the intensity found in your art?

C - I don’t see difference between what I write and what I paint. One doesn’t complete the other and they could exist alone . I am the same person on both , I can’t change that . The book Alemão is very realistic, all you read there happened at the time the story is told ( between 1990 and 2009 ) . It isn’t a self-biographical work but there is no fiction there . The book tries to put down myths about racism , globalization, tolerance, bureaucracy in a ‘United World” and show how it all can sound as bullshit when you are at the “wrong side” not just of the world but of the life ” . The main characters are victims of other people’s values and it totally screwed their lives and minds . But isn’t a negative book . As it is described : “A love story “…. yes , an extremely not conventional love story . But beautiful . I believe that this book is edgy about everything , including aesthetically . The prove of this is that everybody starts to read the book and send me emails saying that have started . I have never received one single email of a person that have finished it .hahah!! I know that many ones got revolted and very angry . So , please , never buy my book , I don’t need more people hating me . hahahah!!

© Caio Fern

The Art Site The Curious Brain posted about Caio Fern

2011-02-19T06:46:00.000-08:00

The Art Site The Curious Brain posted about Caio Fern

Check it out , is a really good site as a matter of fact.

http://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=16357
http://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=16357

Art Magazine BOOOOOOOM posted Caio Fern

2011-02-17T04:27:00.000-08:00

Jeff Hamada from BOOOOOOOM posted about my work today on his Art Magazine that is really good and has posts of fantastic new artists.
Jeff , thank you , this is very generous.
Booooooom is one of the most popular art sites today and I think it makes any one really happy to be there.

visit the post here :
http://www.booooooom.com/2011/02/16/artist-painter-caio-fern/
BOOOOOOOM

WINO-STRUT NATION posting about Caio Fern .

2011-01-11T05:01:00.000-08:00

the L.A based artist David Phillips posted about my work on his blog "wino-strut nation " .

http://wino-strut-nation.com/blog/2011/1/10/the-paintings-of-caio-fern.html

The art site Art of Day has posted about Caio Fern's work. Dramatic Psychological Figurative Paintings by Caio Fern

2010-12-28T11:57:00.000-08:00

The art site Art of Day has posted about Caio Fern's work. Dramatic Psychological Figurative Paintings by Caio Fern

Today the site Art of Day has posted about my work. Go there to check it out : http://artofday.com/wordpress/?p=3130It is a very good site for artists , if you are an artist can submit your work and if approved they post an article about and they can even help to sell with a small commission if is your wish.
So I hope you enjoy the site !
Thank you Art of Day people !

the tittle of the post of my works there is : Dramatic Psychological Figurative Paintings by Caio Fern - isn't this great ?
http://artofday.com/wordpress/?p=3130

The art magazine Idea Fixa published Caio Fern. 18th edition.

2010-12-16T08:47:00.000-08:00

Idea Fixa Magazine published Caio Fern. 18th edition

The Brazilian Art Magazine Idea Fixa
http://www.ideafixa.com/revista
Pulished this December on the 18th adition named Sonhos ( Dreams . ahhhhhhhhh........I am such a dream ) 3 works of mine .
Idea Fixa is a magazine about art , illustration , cinema , design , animation , motion , multimidia .
To see the Magazine you need only to click on the link http://www.ideafixa.com/revista and click on the cover . The e-version will appear and you will be able to turn the pages till find .... ME !!!
Thank you people of the Idea Fixa !!

http://www.ideafixa.com/revista

ELIZABETH AVEDON: CAIO FERN: Slam Magazine Artist Interivew

2010-12-01T03:54:00.000-08:00

ELIZABETH AVEDON: CAIO FERN: Slam Magazine Artist Interivew: "Acrylic on Canvas (c) Caio Fern 2010 /All Rights Reserved Sometimes in Brazil the word ambition is seen as a sin... Slam Magazine Intervie..."

Slam Magazine interviews Caio Fern

2010-12-01T03:44:00.000-08:00

Today the Slam Magazine posted on their site an interview with me ( see it here - http://artslammagazine.com/?p=7415 )
The interview was made by Terri Lloyd.
( Terri's blog where you can find her really good works , trust me - www.hairycarrionarts.blogspot.com/ )
Really , when i knew about the interview, with all the respect , but I was expecting lame questions as :" what are your main influences, when did you discover that was an artist ...." and things like that .
But Terri questions where really good , she knew what was talking about and I felt like waves were breaking upon my head forcing me to answer it properly . She was fantastic . I had lots of fun and at the end I got really exited about .
http://artslammagazine.com/?p=7415
I do hope you enjoy this interview as I did .
http://artslammagazine.com/?p=7415

Beautiful Decay Magazine taking about Caio Fern

2010-11-03T02:59:00.000-07:00

http://beautifuldecay.com/2010/11/02/caio-fernandes/#more-34101
the art magazine Beautiful Decay posted 6 images of my paintings with a really good , short, clean text written by Julie Yeo.
you can see it here :

http://beautifuldecay.com/2010/11/02/caio-fernandes/#more-34101

acrylic on canvas by Caio Fern 2010

2010-10-19T10:21:00.000-07:00

Now it is published: Alemão by Caio Fern . The best novel of this generation. Already a classic .

2010-10-09T06:59:00.000-07:00

Now it is published: Alemão by Caio Fern . The best novel of this generation. Already a classic .

http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/2081181

It is finnaly publised !! ahhh!! What a birth !!
I am so happy , you have no idea . Even so when pushed the button to publish it I felt sad ... now the characters don't belong to me anymore , they are out there living their lifes and there is nothing else I can do. They are independent now . It is sad ... really , hahahah!! After months working with the characters I started to like then as they as they were here by my side .
http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/2081181
The Title is Alemão as you can see on the cover with a photo made by Maren Wieczorek . The backcover was made by me . haha!! Is a book writen in English with a title in Brazilian Portugues that means German.

Is this an edgy and polemic novel? Ahhhhh.... come on !!! How can you think that ? When something polemic have come fron me in all this time you know my work? I am gentle and inofencive as a sweet breeze on the prairie.
It was all written and published in English.

"A love story between two characters that grew up together and decided to give up of understanding or belonging to the world creating their own values ans life style . The story happens in São Paulo city , Brazil and in a small town named Campos do Jordão , Brazil's inside country. Among crimes , sexual violence and ruined familys the novel exposes contemporary values by the point of view of who lives at the other side of the concept of globalization and new world. Alemão means German in Brazilian Portugues and the subject imigration of Germans to South America is an important issue for the characters . Writen by Caio Fern. 242 pages".

Plus : after the novel I published on the last 6 pages a short tale named : Giny, Araucaria and the Mountain.... as the landscape is the same and the two characters of the short tale appear on the novel too. I have posted this short tale few times in many blogs , but now it is all revised by Sandy Gunderson. As all the book.

I do hope you enjoy reading this novel , only for 9 dollars, a real bargain.
http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/2081181
And thank you very much for all that have helped me on this book . Without help it would never exists .

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THE PICTORIAL CONCEQUENCE ///REDUCTIVE . books by Caio Fern

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The Pictorial Consequence | Caio Fernandes | Fine Art
Book about Caio Fernandes's painting production from 1999 to 2010 . 120 pages January 2010 .

. reductive | Caio Fernandes | Fine Art
The artist Caio Fernandes explains the history of the four phases of his work since 1999, included are 32 of his best paintings. , June 14, 2010
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1419178

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FAULT MAGAZINE HAS POSTED ABOUT CAIO FERN

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FAULT MAGAZINE HAS POSTED ABOUT CAIO FERNANDES WORK . see the post about my work HERE .

FAULT Magazine

Her influence - and a link to Elizabeth Avedon's post about Caio .

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This weekend many of you saw on Elizabeth Avedon's bolg a post about my paintings and photographys ( my world ) .
Her work had a definitive influence in my life when i was a teenager , her specific work and the artists she have worked with .

Thank you Elizabeth for your work and generosity .

and if you didn't see her blog , visit and discover a huge number of incredible photographers and fantastic images .
Elizabeth Avedon .

2009 - building a new life .

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2009 was the year that something different happened . I started to sow a new life inside me and it appeared on my paintings more than any other activity .
I remember in September I said that was lost about my work , going into no specific direction .
Mistake . This is a very specific direction I had to discover .
So these are my paintings from 2009 . They seems lost . But they are very aware of themselves .

2008 by Caio Fern - the year that almost didn't exist . acrylic on canvas .

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2008 this house was rebuilding , my life was just a dark room ,some rock'n''roll Cd's 2 Lhasa Apsos pups and my cat . September I received a call from a art dealer asking me if i had new paintings to show and let to her Gallery. I said : "yes , lots , I've worked sooooooo much , see you in one month ".
I had nothing , and didn't want to paint . so I spent 10 days sitting on the bed trying to get courage to start to paint . Then I locked myself in the only room of the house with space to work , even so , all ruined and dusty .
For 20 days I just ate brown bread , apple and green tea .

I produced it all on this posted , at the end I was empty , body and soul , exhausted , but satisfied and brand new . Almost all my values were there . I got happy . When the art dealer saw this production said it was far from what of she expected . She wanted something fashion , commercial , some copy of the most obvious New Yorker trend .

Fair , but I have no interest . sorry honey , I am not going to trade my values for a poor agreement with you , an exhibition and a ridiculous share of the profits .

Even so I liked to feel forced to work , I liked this production . After this I just went to paint in March , end of February of 2009 .
And the last painting , yes , the girl's head and green background I did in 2007 , the rest is from 2008 .

2007 - by Caio Fern -

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second semestre of 2007 , i came back " home " , or what God made me call home . the last time I had painted was 2005 .
if far from here I discovered something about me , was that I am a painter and can't avoid this . Even trying so hard .
London ( as being a painter ) was the biggest bless dressed as curse in my life . There I spent all my time inside museums and gallerys but didn't produce nothing . I fighted against this as I hated the idea that I could be an artist , painter, or something like this.
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Back here I fell in a strong depression that just got rid of at the year of 2009 .
The owner of the house I lived before decided to rebuild it when I came back .
I decided to try to paint, it was my way to say "Thank You" to God for all the madness I was living . Yes , I was really thankfull, hard to explain the reason.
I just had time to paint those 6 works in one week. then I vanished from map.
just returning in 2008 .
It was my way to say "thank you London " as well , for have forced me to see the painting that builds me .
a shock-treatment , if you prefer .

2003 -2005 by Caio Fern - transition years .

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Between 2003-2005 I produced few things . didn't want to talk about painting or art in general . Didn't want to live in my country , didn't want to be myself . I created the Unser Welt concept and lived inside it , turning my back to the world and recreating a new being and a new country .
All the rare works I produced are here on this post . They are few, but here you will be able to watch the transition for what I have done now .
The year of 2006 I didn't produce anything , Just restarted to paint at the end of 2007 . You will see the first painting of this post is the one I consider the most radical example of the changes .
And when I was out of the country , traveling faraway , just felt like to come back for one thing . anything else :
to see the painting of the little girl among trees ( the 5Th of this post ) .
So yes , I produced few things and didn't want to talk about or to show to anyone . But some of then are real classics on my mind .

2002 - by Caio Fern - the year I proved that wasn't just a great painter but a real GENIUS :D horrible photos of great paintings.

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some paintings from 2001 by Caio Fern

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works from the year 2000 - by Caio Fern - acrylic on canvas

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shadows of buildings over the sea - by Caio Fern 1999

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1999 - acrylic on canvas by Caio Fern

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1999 . The year I stopped to work with photography, computers, mixed media ... and started to paint for real . I needed something else, and just the painting gave me this . Weird to explain .

These works have more than 10 years, and as you can see, at that time I worked exactly the same values and subjects I do today . Some references were included with the time but anyone was took out .

That time I had a huge influence of all generations of the German expressionism ( as in everything I've done , even when I am cooking ) , and direct influence of the bad decorative paintings on the walls of the very cheap-dangerous bars I used to go in Sao Paulo City at that time . At least this is what I see strongest when look to these works now 10 years later .

i don't believe in creativity in art .

Creativity is for adverting , politicians , fashion , lawyers , people that need lie to the viewer to be able to convince and to sell an idea .

I believe in artists ( and include myself in this category ) that work the same thing for the entire life . A real search and improvement .

This is my thing . This is what I am and what I do .

I think my work got a little bit better with 10 years of obstinacy ... but I didn't reach nothing . Maybe in 30 , 40 years , i will be able to at least touch the top of the iceberg .