German-Portuguese artist Paul Neberra takes inspiration from classical and surrealist painters, besides pop culture icons, to create mesmerizingly surreal paintings.
My work reflects a lot of my unconscious! Especially in the way I see the world and solve my fears and anguish. The images I create emerge as a mediator between my unconscious and my surrounding reality, that is, from a psychoanalytic point of view, a profound interpretation of various aspects of my mind. (…) I can point out that surrealism and lowbrow / Pop Surrealism artists are a great influence, but as far as technique and representation are concerned, I find myself in classicism, realism and the renaissance. The fantasy and influence of Pop culture are just as important as sensitivity to environmental and social issues. I think that many times I try to revive an Era in which nature had a great prominence in people’s lives. As a consequence, a universe emerges which is a kind of symbiosis that relates the human being to his surrounding and nature itself. I feel that the paintings I create serve as parallel reality windows. In these images we have subtle references to past historical events, but in which different realities arise from ours. I’m still searching…
Paul Neberra