A PELE DA COR (2022)

A CONSTRUÇÃO DA ABSTRAÇÃO EM SIMÕES

Abstract

This article investigates the transition from figurative language to abstraction in the work of José Toscano Simões, based on the exhibition The Skin of Color (2022). It analyzes how color ceases to function as an expressive element subordinated to figuration and comes to assume a structuring role in pictorial construction. It questions how this aesthetic shift redefines the artist’s work and contributes to abstractionism in the context of Pará. The objective is to examine this conceptual evolution by investigating his training, references, and the exhibition, as well as situating it within the panorama of Brazilian abstract art. The study is justified by Simões’s relevance in the Amazonian art scene and by the need to understand the contemporary renewal of abstractionism. The methodology is based on bibliographic research of Sobral (2002), Pimentel (2022), and Dempsey (2011) and an interview with the artist. It concludes that abstraction becomes consolidated as a structuring axis in his poetics, placing his production within the contemporary debate on abstract painting.