About

QUIM Alcantara visual artist’s Statement

QUIM Alcantara is a Brazilian contemporary artist who paints current issues like the global warming to make people think about it, but without forgetting the beauty of art so that they can enjoy the paintings.
His work is focused on contemporary socio-environmental facts like the earthquakes at Haiti and Chile, Amazon deforestation and Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

QUIM developed his own abstract style along the time.
He have a solid experience in art painting, having worked at Art Atelier Gogo & Pimpa by 05 years and worked freelance in murals at restaurants, hotels, luxury stores, among others besides Trompe L’Oeil paintings and décor shows (more details at QUIM’s resume). QUIM also coursed industrial design, art and history classes during this period.
During an abstention of arts of 07 years after loosing his father, he hard worked on offices. Only in the past year his production of artworks gained consistency.

The actual phase highlights the influences of cubism, post-impressionism and modernism, with acrylic paint on canvas and raw fabrics as his main technic.