Xingú

At the basis of the paintings resulting from the experience Pomar lived in the Amazon are, as he himself described in an interview with the art critic Alexandre Melo, a group of drawing studies made with a loose and spontaneous approach. These sketches and notes served mainly to capture and understand gestures, group movements, and rituals that the painter would later rework using colour.

«I left somewhat sceptical, stayed there for two months without moving, filled notebook after notebook with quick notes, and forbade myself from painting so that I would not be distracted by it. I wanted to remain as open as possible to receiving images that naturally I would never see again. When I returned, for two months I painted nothing but Indians.»