About

Amos Coimbra is an Italian contemporary artist. His practice develops primarily through watercolor and acrylic painting, mostly on paper, within a territory between abstraction and minimal figuration.

His work begins with the observation and construction of a field, understood as a space in which different elements enter into relation: events, trajectories, tensions, and configurations of possible scenarios. Within these landscapes, small human presences occasionally appear, introducing intentions, choices, relationships, and destinies into the field.

The image is not defined from the outset. An initial chromatic space is observed over time, allowing signs, forms, and relationships to gradually emerge. Painting thus develops as a system of forces in which every intervention alters the overall balance.

The works register these phenomena as sensitive cartographies: partial maps of inner and existential territories. Fields of color, lines of passage, thresholds, and small figures become traces of movements and tensions running through the pictorial space.

White, too, is not an empty space, but an active part of the field. Forms emerge as provisional coordinates, vectors, deposits, or fragments of landscape. Painting thus takes on something of the nature of a seismograph: it does not represent what happens, but records its effects and tensions.

Many works remain open over time. The process unfolds through successive observations, acts of subtraction, and occasional additions, until the image reaches a configuration perceived as necessary.

His most recent research focuses on the relationship between field, threshold, and perception: on the conditions that make something accessible or inaccessible, visible or latent, and on those moments when a configuration loses its stability, transforms, or allows different possibilities to emerge.