FLOWERS FOR THE FORGOTTEN GODS by Diogo Landô
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Medium: Mix-media on Aluminium Dibond
Dimensions: 140 x 108 cm
Year: 2023
Price: $2500.00 USD
Status: available
FLOWERS FOR THE FORGOTTEN GODS 140 × 110 cm — Mixed media on Aluminium Dibond, black frame In Flowers for the Forgotten Gods, Diogo Landô constructs a layered visual dialogue between classical permanence and contemporary visual noise. A fragmented classical face emerges from a dense field of collage, typography, and neon gestures, evoking the silent persistence of ancient ideals within the chaos of modern culture. Flowers bloom across the composition like offerings—symbols of devotion, memory, and fragile beauty—placed before a deity that modern society has long abandoned. Through his characteristic fusion of digital manipulation, collage, and painterly intervention, Landô transforms the classical figure into a living relic, suspended between reverence and erasure. The work reflects on what remains sacred in an age saturated with images: a meditation on beauty, memory, and the forgotten myths that still inhabit our collective imagination.
Why collect this work?
A monumental face becomes legible through interruption: flowers, graphic fragments and white bands turn remembrance into a contest between persistence and erasure.
- Landô states that layering, fragmentation and digital intervention keep meaning unsettled. In this work, that intention is borne out by the collision of an idealised face with contemporary graphic debris.
- In the photograph, white horizontal smears cross the eyes and lower image, while roses gather around the mouth. Resembling offerings yet blocking recognition, the flowers connect devotion with concealment.
- The documented mixed media on aluminium Dibond brings photographic modelling, typography, drawn contours and luminous-looking pink lines onto one compressed surface. Their competing visual registers prevent the central figure from settling into a single historical moment.
- The work gives concrete form to a question about cultural memory: must inherited images remain intact to endure, or can obstruction itself keep them active? Its classical reference survives not outside visual noise, but through it.
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.
