The Body and Gesture: Painting as Existence

Bruno Rosa

My works fall within the field of Contemporary Abstract Expressionism, combining spontaneous gesture with a subtly considered construction of space and color.
Each piece is a raw physical and emotional force: lines, stains, and chromatic tears create visceral maps of internal states.

Exploring tension between freedom and structure, the canvas turns into a field of emotional survival, where color vibrates and gesture breathes unfiltered.
Each painting is an urgent movement, a raw transition between chaos and reconstruction.

Gestures are the most distinctive feature of my work. It’s not a simple outpouring of energy onto the canvas, but an almost architectural construction of rhythms, tensions and releases.

Each splash, each irregular line, each overlapping of color seems to arise from an inescapable inner need – an impulse that doesn’t ask permission from reason, but paradoxically finds an compositional balance.

There’s a constant tension between violence and control, that gives the paintings a magnetic force.

Color is used as an emotional device, not just as a visual element. Red, blue, yellow, black and white emerge in conflict or dialogue, like colliding states of mind.

The palette is not arbitrary: it reinforces the internal drama or each work, serving as both a backdrop and a visual protagonist.

I paint to understand what remains after the gesture.

I don't expect anyone who sees my works to find meaning.

I only hope that you recognize something true in them – a journey that, in some way, also belongs to you.