Exhibition "Fortunately there are those who have eyes to see"

Rico Sequeira's plastic world has a characteristic that sets it apart from others of his contemporaries. It's the way in which, in the order of his work, drawing is opposed to painting.
Not because Rico Sequeira denies one or the other, on the contrary, or because he doesn't use them in the course and internal movement of his work, but precisely because, by using them incessantly, he does so according to a regime of opposition and even deep tension.
Drawing thus functions in this work with a double incision. On the one hand, an automatic, or rather automatist, release - as if it were an immediate record of an impulse, a release of energy, expressive vehemence (but never expressionist) - of an inner matrix of one's own being.
(...) On the other hand, painting, which also intervenes, but without contaminating or invading this first field, let's call it opera in an almost opposite way.
As a mark of pleasure, of saturation, of direct sensitivity to its own carnality or material density, the presence of a thickness and passion for color and texture that does not intrude, but rather keeps a respectful distance from this other plane of invention in which drawing plays out in its dazzle and desiring fullness.
(...) From all this comes a kind of splendor. A dance that disturbs and leaves us somewhat perplexed. A glow that captures us and arouses us. Identical to what we feel when there is silence in the midst of chaos.