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Maico Camilo has just received an invitation to showcase his artworks in one of Italy’s biggest and most prestigious art fair. ECC – European Cultural Center, happening in Venice ITALY 2022 @ Palazzo Bembo. https://www.ecc-italy.eu

Lost Within My Own Self (2020), grew from the exploration of the complex relationship between father and son, drawing on my own experiences.  The journey of painting these works deals with sexuality and mental health issues, especially in relation to the deterioration of the mind suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease.  The decline in thinking and social skills and the inability to function independently is explored, as I link the state of mind, both in the inability to accept, as well as the inability to think and function independently. Each work explores a degree of expression, where it draws the viewer into a state of contemplation.  The layers of the works build up a darkness of thought and feeling that, just like the personal challenges explored above, also delves into the realities of dealing with a world as it is in these current circumstances, challenging our own sanity and identity.  Just as we hide the layers of our mental health and our emotional well being, so these works give a voice to those many layers, with hidden elements coming to light, forcing us to face the brutality of a senseless life.

This runs very closely to my heart as it is and has been my own journey, Maico Camilo