Artist Portfolio Bruno Castro Santos Drawings and Paintings 2013 - 2019 | Page 24

Binary
In search of lost rhythm (excerpt)
(...) The aesthetic suggestion in Bruno Castro
Santos’ drawings and patterns seems to be the
result of a combination between architecture and
design. However, he takes care in breaking up those
designed patterns as to disturb repetitions and
maybe introduce the mystery of an entirely unique
individuality that will vibrate in a merely different
outline. That is when they say that the ‘drawing is
solved’.
From a rhythmanalytical point of view, Bruno
Castro Santos’ case as an artist - which he confided
in us - is now between the ‘effort to achieve a strong
intuition’ and ‘a certain dormant state of this time,
which does not function with the arts’. Bruno also
states that: ‘Wild intuition is extinct’. Therefore,
Castro Santos’ fight and work seems to revolve
around these two clusters - the effort to achieve
intuition and the dormant state of time. (...)
Rodrigo Sobral Cunha.