Blue Bird by Diogo Landô
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Medium: Mix-media on Aluminium Dibond
Dimensions: 120 x 85 cm
Year: 2022
Price: $2000.00 USD
Status: available
BLUE BIRD Size: 120x85cm + w/ floating black frame Edition: Original 1/1 Medium : Mix media on Dibon panel There is a moment when everything becomes weightless, even after rupture. In Blue Bird, the figure dissolves into layers of memory and silence, as if the body no longer defines its limits but expands beyond them. Among fragments and absences, a small blue bird emerges, quiet yet absolute. A symbol of freedom that endures, even when everything else feels uncertain. This is not about escape, but resilience. About remaining, even when broken, and still finding a way to rise. A unique work (1/1), Blue Bird blends photography, collage, and digital painting into a singular visual language. It stands as an emblematic piece in the practice of Diogo Landô, where fragmentation and beauty coexist as expressions of the human condition.
Why collect this work?
A rear-facing figure is made porous by abrupt white gaps and overlapping natural imagery, turning the body from a stable portrait into a site of interruption and persistence.
- Landô describes layering, fragmentation and digital intervention as central to his practice. Here, those devices complicate recognition rather than simply embellishing the figure.
- In the photograph, a sunflower occupies the figure’s back while a small blue bird appears near the right shoulder. Torn-looking white intervals cut across the head and torso, balancing growth and flight against visible absence.
- Catalogue metadata identifies mixed media on aluminium Dibond. The documented combination of photography, collage and digital painting permits sharp shifts between photographic detail, translucent overlap, scattered dots and blank areas, though the image cannot establish surface texture.
- Dated 2022, Blue Bird is particularly useful for considering how contemporary portraiture can withhold a face yet construct identity through editing, substitution and concealment. The artist frames the bird as resilience, while the fractured composition keeps that reading unresolved.
About the Artist
Diogo Landô
Diogo Landô is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: mixed-media. Based in Oliveira de Azeméis.
Nationality: Portuguese
My work begins with emotion! An impulse born from a continuous need to create.
