Daniel Senise

Rio de Janeiro, 1955

At the start of his career, in the 1980s, Daniel Senise took part in exhibitions that legitimized his work within the context of the so-called “80s Generation”, a diverse group of artists that was recognized by the critics for its gestural, vibrantly colored approach to painting.

Since the late 90s, Senise has been producing works that dwell somewhere between painting and collage, as the artist appropriates materials from his everyday working environment, such as dirt and nails from the studio floor, and pages from books and art catalogues. As such, the behind-the-scenes debris of artistic production becomes the core subject of the art itself. Texture and chromatic variations are generated using a technique that is not unlike monotype, in which pigments and shapes are transferred from one plane to another through contact.

The works created for Frestas draw from photographs of the Sorocaba Railway Station, a building inaugurated in 1930. The railway itself was one of the most important lines during the 19^th and early 20^th centuries. The station house, once a thriving link between Sorocaba and the city of São Paulo, is currently defunct.

[L.B.]