Neberra - Modern Artist
My work reflects a lot of my unconscious! Especially in how I see the world and solve my fears and anguish. The images I create emerge as a mediator between my unconscious and my surrounding reality, that is, from a psychoanalytic point of view, a profound interpretation of various aspects of my mind.
Paul Neberra is from Mainz (Germany), where he spent part of his childhood, moving with his family to Portugal in the 80's.
After his degree in Graphic Design, he worked as an illustrator on a small children's magazine project. In the following years, between 2006 and 2007, he worked in a small advertising agency and after that, he found a teaching post at a Lisbon training school, dedicating the next five years teaching graphic software, always creating illustrations, mainly using a digital process.
After 2013 he devoted himself entirely to painting, participating in various group shows and individual exhibitions.
His work was featured in various art magazines, including Catapult, Blopop, and Hey.
At first glance, some of Neberra's works resemble classic-era paintings. It is between the Renaissance and the Baroque that we can identify his pictorial technique and style, but it is in the details that we understand more contemporary aspects. You can spot UFOs, creatures of the imagery inspired by the movies and emblematic TV shows of the 50's, 60's, and 80's.
As for the preferential theme of Neberra, we find melancholy wrapped in mystical contours tempered with a bit of sarcasm. His characters can sometimes be painted in a realistic figurative way, but others are like elaborate versions of cartoons.
In addition to collective exhibitions in the United States, Australia, Italy, Portugal, and England, his work has been published in several Blogs and some contemporary art magazines.
My work reflects a lot of my unconscious! Especially in how I see the world and solve my fears and anguish. The images I create emerge as a mediator between my unconscious and my surrounding reality, that is, from a psychoanalytic point of view, a profound interpretation of various aspects of my mind.
I have understood over time that not all the process of creation and interpretation is successful. And in this way, I am, in part condemned to a constant process of evolution and learning to get a better reading of the messages of my subconscious.
I am not devoid of opinions and concerns about the world around me, even because it is this point that undoubtedly creates the instability I need to solve the best I can by painting. Throughout this process that began at a young age, I identified myself with Surrealism and later with Pop Surrealism, and in these artistic movements, I frame my work.
In this way, I can point out that surrealism and lowbrow / Pop Surrealism artists are a significant influence. Still, as far as technique and representation are concerned, I find myself in classicism, realism, and the renaissance.
The fantasy and influence of Pop culture are just as important as sensitivity to environmental and social issues. I often try to revive an Era in which nature had great prominence in people's lives. Consequently, a universe emerges, a kind of symbiosis that relates the human being to his surroundings and nature itself.
I feel that the paintings I create serve as parallel reality windows. In these images, we have subtle references to past historical events, but different realities arise from ours.
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