Fantasy and whimsy collide with skillful, exacting artistic technique in Brazilian painter Andre Netto’s works. Bold, expressive color is applied through smooth, precise brushstrokes, formulating exotic, abstract compositions. Netto’s use of fluidity and movement is exceptional, as forms and lines glide through two-dimensional surfaces with an unmistakable poeticism of action. While Netto is practiced in Renaissance painting methods, he expounds and develops these aesthetic approaches through his imaginative eye for the extraordinary. Grounding his thematic and artistic character in Fantastic Realism, the artist reworks the human figure and its environs in these illuminating, alluring paintings. “In my work one can find the content of magic and fantastic elements noticed as part of “normality” by the character, magical elements sometimes perceived but never explained,” he says. Through this mysterious blend of the natural and the unreal, he inspires the viewer to look beyond the expected or the mundane in contemporary life. Engaged in sculpting and drawing as well as painting, Andre Netto lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.