FLAVIO MAN
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This is not a collection of images. It is a field of traces, where each painting is a small disaster in slow motion. Painting is excavating chaos. What is an image today will be a ruin tomorrow.
The works here do not follow a chronological order or a closed classification. They move between collapsing cities, fragmented bodies, fragile structures, absurd scenes and jungles that devour what remains. Together they form a map of instability rather than a stable archive.
The aim is not to explain the world, but to stay inside the moment when things begin to fail. Each painting is a fragment of that failure, a remnant of the present in ruins.
THEATER OF THE ABSURD
These works are small scenes where logic cracks and the absurd becomes the only certainty. They are fissure, a trace, a scene inside a theatre without a script, where figures do not resolve the situation but simply witness it, like us.
Brick falling over the head
90x70cm, mixed media on canvas
2025
Bird king with red shoes
150x100cm, mixed media on canvas
2025
Junkie bird believes that everything is fine
90x70cm, mixed media on canvas
2025
Useless Objects from the Future
90x70cm, mixed media on canvas
2025
RUINS OF THE FUTURE
Buildings are not just structures; they are witnesses of time. They rise like abstract prisons, solid blocks held at their breaking point after carrying too much for too long. Now they begin to give way.
It is about the moment when a structure is still standing but already failing, when the crack appears and something starts to fall with it.
It is about the moment when a structure is still standing but already failing, when the crack appears and something starts to fall with it.
Nubes de angustia
Ink, acrylic and pigments on canvas
100x150cm
2019
Sleepwalker at night
Ink, acrylic and pigments on canvas
110x70cm
2019-2024
Fabelas
Mixed media on canvas
100x70cm
2019
Escalera
Mixed media on canvas
90x75cm
2019
Tsunami
Mixed media on canvas
145x90cm
2019
CAVERN AND ECHOES
This series is a bridge between the prehistoric and the present, as if the walls of a contemporary cave were covered with the remains of a collapse. Automatic lines and faded backgrounds evoke archaeological fragments, something on the verge of being erased.
Each painting reads like an echo of a civilisation in decline. The figures are not heroes or mythological beings; they are entities caught inside the fall. They are records of human fragility in a time of acceleration and destruction, in a world that is disappearing in front of our eyes.
Each painting reads like an echo of a civilisation in decline. The figures are not heroes or mythological beings; they are entities caught inside the fall. They are records of human fragility in a time of acceleration and destruction, in a world that is disappearing in front of our eyes.
Cavern #1 – The Shaman of the Cave
Ink and pigments on canvas
40x40cm
2019
Cavern #2 – The Leaning Tower
Ink and pigments on canvas
40x40cm
2019
Cavern #3 – The Witness of the Cave
Ink and pigments on canvas
40x40cm
2019
XXI Century Caveman II
Ink and pigments on canvas
100x70
2019
XXI Century caveman
Ink and pigments on canvas
110x70cm
2019
Plunderers of the past
ink and pigments on canvas
90x50cm
2019
FRAGMENTED BODIES
The figures are broken apart and manipulated by invisible forces. They exist in a constant state of tension, between autonomy and submission. The bodies do not act on their own; they are moved, moulded and broken by something that exceeds them.
Man with umbrella
Mixed media on canvas
65x50cm
2023
El gato
Ink and pigments on canvas
25x30cm
2017
Marioneta (Puppet)
ink and oil on canvas
35x25cm
2018
San Vito Dance
Ink and pigments on canvas
25x30cm
2017
Selfportrait
Ink and oil on canvas
50x70cm
2017
In Fragile Structures the world exists on the edge of disappearance. Forms emerge and disintegrate, buildings fade into dust, gestures leave only a mark before vanishing. Absence is as present as form; what remains is a brief imprint of what once was. Nothing here is stable, everything appears only as a temporary trace of uncertainty.
Portrait of a city in spring
Mixel media on canvas
60x50cm
2019
End of the winter
Ink and pigments on canvas
80x60cm
2019
Raindrop
Ink on canvas
50X70cm
2020
Nocturnal wind
Ink on canvas
60x80cm
2019
Figures are assembled from technological ruins, fragments of cities appear and dissolve, architecture behaves like a mirage of what once was. These works do not offer certainties; they open unstable spaces where reality frays and mutation is the only constant.
The Astronaut
Mixed media on canvas
100x75cm
2020
The Canary
Mixed media on canvas
80x60cm
2019
The Witch
Mixed media on canvas
90x75cm
2020
After party
Mixed media on canvas
60x60cm
2019-2024
Open door to hidden street
Mixed media on canvas
75x60cm
2024
PRIMITIVE GARDEN
Not a memory of the past, but the ground where something new mutates. Concrete cracks, the jungle grows over it, scars spread across the surface. Nature is not a refuge; it is an organism that absorbs and distorts what remains.
Human presence fades into stains and erratic lines. Architecture stays as an empty shell, a structure that no longer belongs to us.
Human presence fades into stains and erratic lines. Architecture stays as an empty shell, a structure that no longer belongs to us.
Scratches
Acrylic on canvas
50x70cm
2017
Cementery garden
Mixed media on canvas
45x30cm
2017
Dragon flyng over a city
Mixed media on canvas
100x70cm
2017
Concrete consumed by jungle
Oil on canvas
35x25cm
2017
Song of the donkey
Oiil on cancvas
50x70cm
2017