THE PAINTER HENRIQUE NEIVA, DEVELOPS ' TO MANY YEARS RESEARCH WITH ACRYLIC INKS MIXED ' DIVERSE ORES AND OTHER ELEMENTS AS CEMENT AND LANDS, MAINLY IN ITS PAINTINGS Of THE SERIES “ MUROS” ( WALLS ).
THE WORKS ARE EXECUTED IN MIXING TECHNIQUE ON CANVAS WITH RELIVES AND TEXTURES AND USING THE FOLLOWING ELEMENTS: NATURAL LAND PIGMENTS; OXIDES OF IRON, POWDER OF MARBLE , DOLOMITA, NATURAL CRYSTALS OF QUARTZO;PIGMENTS OF GOLD, SILVER, COPPER , BRONZE, AND DIVERSE BRAZILIAN ORES.

This show took place one year BEFORE the Iron Curtain fell.
I visited the show by train, going through Dresden and Vienna to get there.
Cracow was still filled with USSR soldiers in 1988.
Quite Orwellian.
Upon hearing me speaking German with my German wife, a Polish taxi driver pointed to smoke curling up from a smokestack and said one word very clearly; "Crematorium" ... Auschwitz is a suburb of Cracow, which until that moment, I wasn't aware of.
My distorted silkscreen in the show; "Permanent Wave" fit well with the scene ... a distorted woman undressing before an oven.
Had I had a million dollars at the time ... I would have easily bet it all that "The Wall" would NEVER come down in my lifetime ... a year later it was gone.
Thank you Lech Walesa, Mr. Gorbachev, Mr. Reagan, and Pope Paul II ... you did it ...
and by the way ... the most obedient Soviet Serfs BY FAR were the East Germans, who didn't open their mouths until the entire Eastern Block had fallen due to the courageous resistance by Czech's, Slovak's, Hungarian's, and the Polish Solidarity Dock Workers in Danzig who had protested looking into the barrels of Soviet tanks.
If it had been up to the East Germans, the Iron Curtain would still be standing ... take it from someone who was there ... and you may now use those "History" books as Frisbee's.
"Peaceful Revolution" my ass ... "cowardice" would be a historically more accurate term.

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