Featured Work Filipe Rocha da Silva
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    Filipe Rocha da Silva, Forms and Shapes, 2008, pencil and color pencil on paper, 19.5 x 73 inches (49.5 x 185.4 cm)
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    Filipe Rocha da Silva, Forms and Shapes, 2008, pencil and color pencil on paper, 19.5 x 73 inches (49.5 x 185.4 cm)
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    Filipe Rocha da Silva, Forms and Shapes (detail), 2008, pencil and color pencil on paper, 19.5 x 73 inches (49.5 x 185.4 cm)
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    Filipe Rocha da Silva, Mountain Slope, 2008, pencil and colored pencil on paper, 25 x 50 inches (63.5 x 127 cm)
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    Filipe Rocha da Silva, Mountain Slope (detail), 2008, pencil and colored pencil on paper, 25 x 50 inches (63.5 x 127 cm)
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    Filipe Rocha da Silva, Mountain Slope (detail), 2008, pencil and colored pencil on paper, 25 x 50 inches (63.5 x 127 cm)
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    Filipe Rocha da Silva, Number One, 2008, pencil and colored pencil on paper, 25 x 50 inches (127 x 66 cm)
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    Filipe Rocha da Silva, Number One (detail), 2008, pencil and colored pencil on paper, 25 x 50 inches (121.9 x 121.9 cm)

Filipe Rocha da Silva is a Portuguese painter who shows his work internationally. In his multilayered paintings, built up with a plurality of materials, there is a strong Asian influence ascribed to Chinese painting. We can also find traces of Western medieval painting, pointillism and 20th century art. He sometimes consciously quotes from art history, reinterpreting mannerism and the Renaissance, by overlapping his characteristic calligraphy composed of a multitude of small human beings. In his painting Rocha da Silva tries to reconcile tradition with technological research and explore the role of the individual in society.