I am a painter born in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro currently living in Berlin. I was raised between the city, where I watched as all the women in my family handcrafted and sold delicate and beautiful porcelain dolls, a pleasure I was denied for being both a boy and still a child and my grandfather's milking farm, where I wandered with the horses, dogs and eventually helped milking and hearding the cows. My career as a painter started exhibiting my own handmade sketchbooks, where I drew basically anything I thought interesting using ink, coca-cola, pencils or whathever I could get my hand on. I went on to study Biology and Graphic Design and worked as a print designer for an important brazilian brand. Eventually moving to Barcelona for three years and then to Paris. Now I just move to Berlin. Right now I'm working in two series of paintings: Nature Fémenin in witch I use monotype principles and paper brushes to paint realistic idealized women in their private life. It celebrates their innocence in the form of basic desires within the freedom of anonymity These extreme realistic portraits are created with unstable brushes in an unstable technique, imbuing the paintings with an unusual wild harmony that can only be seen up close. In this series, I open a window into intimate lives, reducing women to basic yet poetic desires. It's an admirer's point of view of little pleasures, small moments and delicate feelings inspired by amazing women. In Reencarnation I paint influential people im my life in a way to create a mosaic of influences that together form my own personality. Sometimes these people are represented realistically and sometimes they are symbolic. This series is painted over canvases I found in the streets of Barcelona, Paris, Rio and Berlin. I think bringing something that was disposed back into a home is like adopting a stray dog. It has it's own history, nationality and manners that I have to understand in order to work with it. I paint because it is a way of saying things I could not articulate in words. I had a beautiful childhood and loving parents but being a boy who liked painting, ballet, porcelain dolls and at the same time sports made me grow questioning what was "right" for a boy to do and made me very sensible to trying to understand how people around me felt. Many times I felt like an alien not understanding how or why people would react and often felt more confortable in my own head, with painting and studying mammal behavior. In my painting studies I was unwelcome for not following the rules in watercolor and chalk drawing and in design college there was no consensus in between the teachers, as some loved my work and some despised it as non-design. I graduated with the lowest grade possible in design in a agreement amongst the professors, as they said my research about how our brain understands what our eyes see was not design and I refused to re-create it as a graphic piece. I immediately got hired in the most important and artistic brazilian brand and worked there developing print designs that made covers of Vogue, Elle and was published in articles about the "future of design". Eventually moved to Barcelona to do a Masters degree in fashion design an the description above picks up from there. Thanks for the attention, I hope you like my work. Daniel Bo www.danielbo-art.com