--- title: Anderson Asteclines description: Anderson Asteclines discusses his artistic journey and insights in an interview with Art Verge, highlighting his Brazilian roots and experiences at The Tracey Emin Artist Residency. --- ## Anderson Asteclines Anderson Asteclines' practice is rooted in instinctive, gestural mark-making. His paintings draw on memory, desire, and the traces of past encounters, reflecting on intimacy and identity through two recurring subjects: queer encounters and experiences of anonymity in London's parks, and his complex childhood with his mother and younger brother in Brasília. Populated by spectres of the past, Asteclines' works explore the tensions between anonymity, vulnerability, and longing through distorted faces, fragmented figures, and symbols of mourning. These vivid paintings often evoke the absurd, violent, and visceral dimensions of queer encounters, where pleasure and danger coexist. Working in oil on canvas, Asteclines employs a process of layering, smudging, erasing, and reworking that echoes the act of remembering. Images gradually emerge like dreams or visions, shaped through accumulation and revision. This continual negotiation between revealing and concealing reflects the desire to both expose and protect personal experience, allowing memory to remain fluid, elusive, and emotionally charged. His paintings often seem as if they are both coming into being and fading away at the same time. Anderson Asteclines (b. 1994, Brasilia, Brazil) holds an MFA with distinction from the Glasgow School of Art. Upon the completion of his studies in 2025, he spent 15 months at the prestigious Tracey Emin residency in Margate, UK. ***Enquiries:*** [mail@wentrupgallery.com](mailto:mail@wentrupgallery.com) [Available Works](https://wentrupgallery.com/artists/95-anderson-asteclines/)   ***Upcoming:*** **(Solo show) Wentrup Gallery**, Berlin,  20th November, 2026.    ***Previous:*** Berlin Art Week, at Wentrup Gallery, 9-13 September, 2026. Showroom with recent works.  The Cabin LA, La Brea Studio Artist Residency, Los Angeles. 30 August-27 September, 2026 TEARS' Final Show from 28 June - 31 August at TKE Studios, Margate. Curated by Tracey Emin. Coast of Bohemia Group Exhibition at Joseph Wales Studio, Margate Memento Amoris, Group show at The Lido Stores, February and March, 2026 Ordinary Ghosts, Off-Season with Casey Walshe and Brogan Bertie, Margate, January 2026 TEAR, Darbyshire x Tracey Emin Artist Residency, London, 2025 Works Cited, Group show at Margate Bookshop, 2025 TKE Studios Summer Fair, Margate. Curated by Dame Tracey Emin, TKE STUDIOS, Margate, 2025 MFA Degree Show, The Glue Factory, Glasgow, 2025 MFA Interim Show, The Glue Factory, Glasgow, 2024. Curated by Sarah Tripp and Francis MacKee Too Important to lose, Temporal Lobe Collective, Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, 2024 ## Madonna Reveals She Bought an Anderson Asteclines Painting **In her latest Vogue Italia interview, Madonna reflects on meeting Anderson, says she was deeply moved by the story behind his work about his mother, mentions the sweet gift he gave her, and reveals that she bought one of his paintings.** Video player - Screenshot 2026-06-29 183941 - Click to play video ## Anderson Asteclines Featured in Art Verge ### Between Material Fragility And Chromatic Tension: Figuration At The Threshold Of Contemporary Abstraction In Anderson Asteclines’ Paintings Anderson was just featured in an in-depth interview with Art Verge, discussing his creative practice, his background in Brazil, and his time at The Tracey Emin Artist Residency (TEAR) in Margate. **[Click here to read the full Art Verge interview](https://art-verge.com/between-material-fragility-and-chromatic-tension-figuration-at-the-threshold-of-contemporary-abstraction-in-anderson-asteclines-paintings/)** [![he was thin, with sad eyes and a welcoming smile](https://andersonasteclines.com/hs-fs/hubfs/he%20was%20thin%2c%20with%20sad%20eyes%20and%20a%20welcoming%20smile.jpg?width=2000&height=1279&name=he%20was%20thin%2c%20with%20sad%20eyes%20and%20a%20welcoming%20smile.jpg "he was thin, with sad eyes and a welcoming smile")](https://gsamfa.com/year/2025/anderson-asteclines/) --- Privacy Policy · Legal · © 2025 Studio Anderson Asteclines. All rights reserved.