Broken Bridge

Name: Broken Bridge
Brand: Osvaldo Ferreira
SKU: 1
Price: 2295.0 EUR
Availability: InStock

Osvaldo Ferreira
Angola

€2.295,00

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 150 x 150 cm | 59.06 x 59.06 in

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About The Artwork

In Osvaldo Ferreira’s work, the everyday becomes a stage where community, memory, and identity take center. Through vivid color, textured surfaces, and careful composition, he elevates ordinary moments - market scenes, queues, daily gestures - into quiet, dignified narratives.

Floral and geometric backdrops recall African fabrics and domestic interiors, framing Black bodies as sculptural presences, rich in texture and meaning. These figures, often anonymous and paused in time, reflect the rhythm of urban Angolan life with both tenderness and depth.

Ferreira’s gaze resists simplification, offering instead a layered portrait of Black experience - grounded in belonging, complexity, and quiet power.

Originally created: 2025
Subject: Everyday Life, Street Culture, Community, Contrast
Material: Canvas
Medium: Acrylic
Styles: Figurative, Realism, Folk

Details & Dimensions

Painting: Acrylic on Canvas
Original: One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size: 150 W x 150 H cm
Frame: Not Framed
Ready to Hang: Not applicable
Packaging: Ships in a tube

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Ships From: Angola

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Broken Bridge by Osvaldo Ferreira is a striking work of Black Art, painted in acrylic on canvas with monumental scale and layered intensity. The bridge, fractured yet imposing, becomes a metaphor for rupture and continuity — reflecting histories of struggle, displacement, and survival.

Ferreira’s brushwork combines abstraction and symbolism, where bold colours and sharp contrasts evoke both fragility and strength. The composition situates Broken Bridge within the global continuum of Black Art, affirming its power to transform personal and collective memory into aesthetic testimony.

As part of Afrikanizm Art’s curated collection, Broken Bridge is a one-of-a-kind collector’s piece. A painting that unites cultural heritage with contemporary expression, reaffirming the enduring role of Black Art as a force of identity, resilience, and transformation.

Osvaldo Ferreira

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Osvaldo Ferreira

Osvaldo Ferreira’s work explores how generations inherit - or break from - the social experiences that shape them. Rooted in painting, his practice becomes a visual archive of Angolan daily life, interweaving memory, rupture, and identity.

Through bold colors and fabric-inspired patterns, he echoes African textile traditions while questioning the cultural fragmentation caused by colonization and globalization. His art becomes both a reflection and a resistance - honoring ancestry while reimagining the present with tenderness and strength.