Nuno Ramos questions the idea of limits and boundaries through formal experimentation. In his large-scale paintings and monumental sculptures, he uses primal and intuitive methods of organization and unconventional materials to emphasize the spontaneity of the creative process. Drawing on the history of the Brazilian baroque as well as notions of the epic and the heroic, Ramos searches for a visual language that embodies the physical, plural, and paradoxical aspects of art.

Ramos’s paintings, such as the untitled work on view in this exhibition, are assorted combinations of paraffin, wax, oil, wood, glass, fur, mirrors, and other unidentifiable objects. Both exuberant and revelatory, they give a sense of discomfort and physical fragility. His sculptural works, which are currently featured in the Museum’s Downtown location, emphasize the contradictions between materials and elements, fusing