Real fantastic? The scientific wonder at Walmor Corrêa

Abstract

In the work of Walmor Corrêa the boundaries between the imaginary of science and the imaginary of art are almost none. More than the preference for a choice of themes, such confluences are an essential subject of his production. By borrowing languages and techniques from biology and scientific illustration, the artist reassembles shapes and characteristics to an exotic and fantastic creature, presenting to the public an amusing astonishment that produces not only a new being, but new scenarios, narratives and ways to analyse, catalog and exhibit it to the public. Through his work, there are cultural and theoretical aspects surviving, which surround both disciplines and shape the comprehension over the influences of the Imaginary in the past over the future.