BETWEEN THE MIST AND THE SPRING SUNNY DAYS

Becken Filipe (b. 1983) was one of the discoveries/revelations of 2017. (…)

Born in Lisbon, this artist spent his childhood between Estoril and Berlin, where he followed his father’s work, who is also a painter. 

(…) He’s an enthusiast of cultural agitation; he’s also interested in urban spaces mutations through artistic interventions but it’s at home, within family comfort, that his biggest inspirations are found. 

Becken Filipe juggled his passions around the duality of his academic formation: Communication Design (IADE) and Sculpture (FBAUL). This fusion led his work to Painting, a recent and constant practice. The practice of Drawing has always been part of his work, and it is noticeable in his aesthetic options, as he prefers figuration and brush strokes that flow with delicacy, perfectionism, and noticeable influence of German expressionism, (…) and complicity relations between the representation and it’s imaginated fitting context. (…) His path has not a very long past, but the future is very promising. With each new creation revealed, the more the style is refined, with technical domination that, overall, is still experimental; the color pallet is soft and there’s always a white light (or cloud) that creates an effect between the foggy and sunny spring days. 

(…) Becken Filipe is an example of an artist that assumes his personality in maturity, and that chases with resilience the painting as a view over the world – a sensitive world (his) and the daily world (also ours). 

Edward Hopper (1882-1967) wrote “Painting is a recording os emotion”. He also said that “if it was possible to put it in words, there would be no reason to paint at all”. Becken Filipe is in that range. He took my attention for his ability to capture souls within the bodily rhythms he paints. (…)”

Helena Mendes Pereira – Chief Curator at ZetGallery, Braga
in RUA Magazine