Caio Fonseca
Caio Fonseca
Caio Fonseca is an American painter. He is the son of the Uruguayan sculptor Gonzalo Fonseca; the artist Bruno Fonseca was his brother...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
CountryUnited States of America
rooms mixing paint
My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.
art block rushing
When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
brother sibling artist
All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
art real people
I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
art school ideas
Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
wall needs painting
So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
art world painting
The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.
thinking artist house
I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
magic elements return
I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
piano trying painting
I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.
years months categories
If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories opened up.
eye ideas people
Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
jobs real giving
My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.
trying quality possibility
I try not to bring in anything I don't love looking at. It's about restaint ... There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves within you that sense of possibility.