Artists

Chico da Silva

Press release

Almine Rech London is pleased to present an exhibition by Chico da Silva, on view from January 16 to February 22, 2025. Don’t try to find the sea creatures in Chico da Silva’s paintings in a book; you won’t find them. They are creatures not of this world, but of da Silva’s imagination; not that the artist would make any distinction between those two realms. These fish dance and bedazzle; they fight and swarm; they eat each other; some even seem to flirt with each other. "Each day I’d invent a different fish: my mind’s full of fish" the artist said. They come in a multitude of colours and patterns: whole landscapes, worlds within worlds, unfold across their scales, or perhaps inside their bellies. In oil on canvas and gouache on paper, da Silva imbues them with a jewellike quality, the artist partnering each dash of colour with a brush of white so his subject appears to glimmer luminescent.