Fabio Almeida

(b 1968, United Kingdom. Lives and works in 0)

Combining references from the realms of architecture; design and art history; Fabio Almeida creates large scale collages using a variety of materials including painted and found paper; markers; bleach and letraset. His playful compositions functioning as fractured landscapes or structures whereupon events and narratives may develop. A sense of nostalgia permeates through Fabio's work - his colour palette; shapes and materials alluding to a bygone era of modern optimism but tinted with the gritty realities of present day living. A tension is created between the elegant; ordered language of geometric abstraction and the materiality of the surface - the scribbled and tarnished layers of paper suggesting more mundane and fragile aspects of life.