PETALS AFTER MIDNIGHT by Diogo Landô
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Medium: Mix-media on Aluminium Dibond
Dimensions: 110 x 140 cm
Year: 2023
Price: $2500.00 USD
Status: available
PETALS AFTER MIDNIGHT 140 × 110 cm — Mixed media on Aluminium Dibond In Petals After Midnight, Diogo Landô explores the fragile intersection between beauty, desire, and memory. A golden classical torso emerges through layers of collage, neon light, and fragmented imagery, suggesting a body suspended between reverence and reinvention. The surrounding petals bloom like fleeting moments, symbols of intimacy, sensuality, and the quiet poetry that appears in the stillness of night. Through the contrast of classical forms and contemporary visual language, Landô reflects on the timeless pursuit of beauty in a world constantly reinventing its symbols.
Why collect this work?
Fragmented flowers, classical bodies and the partially obscured word “DEATH” make beauty appear temporary, reproduced and vulnerable to interruption.
- Landô’s statement identifies layering, fragmentation and temporal overlap as central concerns. Here, those devices keep the classical figure from settling into a stable ideal.
- In the photograph, a golden torso anchors the composition while pink blooms, cropped sculptural heads, black marks and luminous lettering repeatedly cross it. Seduction and erasure occupy the same image.
- The documented mixed media on aluminium Dibond permits photographic, graphic and painterly-looking elements to be densely combined, although the photograph cannot establish their physical texture or production sequence.
- Made in 2023, the work provides a concentrated case of classical beauty recirculated through the colour, cropping and visual congestion associated with contemporary image culture. Its mortality reference prevents that reuse from reading as simple homage.
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.
