In the Specters series, the artist performs a pictorial intervention on works from the Dark Matter series, which in turn are prints on canvas whose starting point is images of Caravaggio's paintings that undergo digital manipulation where colors are eliminated and everything is erased, except for various fabrics, through a manual process using image editing software. In this way, Veiga literally merges his pictorial work with the photographic series Dark Matter, where acrylic paint becomes another connecting element between the remaining drapery of Caravaggio's original work and the dark and undefined space of the background. Furthermore, the painting intervention also creates other relationships and tensions between parts of this drapery. The fluid, albeit controlled, character of the artist's painting, visually manifests the release of energy caused by the displacement of the paint through diffusion, this being caused by the second law of thermodynamics and measured by the variation in entropy of the system. In this way, a spectral relationship is created between Veiga's painting and Caravaggio's representational painting of fabrics.

︎︎︎  Arte 1 Channel - First time

Manoel Veiga talks about the influence received from Caravaggio, the 16th century Italian master, that led him to create the “Dark Matter” series. Program exhibited at the tv channel Arte 1 in June 2017.
Directed by Gisele Kato. Duration of 5 minutes. English subtitles.