In Pedro Prandini’s art, the gesture doesn’t follow the brush —
it follows the urgency of the material itself. It’s the paint that
moves. The air that pushes it. Gravity that signs its name.
Pedro doesn’t paint with traditional tools — he channels
forces. His work doesn’t begin with a sketch; it spills, leaks,
flows. Like the rivers of the Amazon, it finds its own path.
The series he dedicates to the four elements — air, fire, earth,
and water — is more than an aesthetic choice. It’s a rite of
invocation. In each piece, there’s a silent conversation with
nature, as if his art breathes with the planet. In ArtNow
Report’s special Amazon edition, this series feels like a
whisper from the forest — urgent, dense, and alive.
The paint drips, the colors merge, bubbles rise as if the
surface itself were breathing. More than a painter, Pedro
reveals himself as an alchemist — orchestrating chaos,
transforming spills into landscapes that echo not the visible
world, but the elemental forces that shape it.
When this language of flow meets the Amazon, the
resonance is seismic. Rather than trying to depict the biome,
Pedro dares to simulate its processes, diving into the
challenge of translating its complexity through the four
elements. With Earth and Water, his technique finds an
immediate echo. The fluidity recalls the omnipresent rivers —
the arteries that define the land — while textures emerging
from controlled chaos feel drawn directly from the richness of
Amazonian soil, layered with life and decay.
Fire, however, confronts him with a respectful silence. The
artist admits that connecting it to the Amazon is still a “work
in progress” — a search for a visual language capable of
honoring a reality so painful. In his experiments with charred
wood and the use of red, there is no easy answer — only the
honest vulnerability of someone who knows that certain
wounds can’t simply be painted; they need to be understood
at their core.