Overview   If I had to define the painting of Miguel Osorio, I would say that it is the total absence of shadow. As the meridian luminosity that imbues and involves it, it is projected by the diffuse light of noon. It is in the maturation of the color of daylight that the artist impregnates the creative impulse of the motion reflected at the verge of the communicable.  Emersion from chaos, his own, in the search of a thematic order with vast representative information veiled by the light of the abstract, skillfully projected on the white paint which is his mind as well. Forms that disintegrate to exhaustion in the search of the superior essence withdrawn from the worldly sights beyond the apparent figurations, like virtualities fighting their way to realities and chromatic sounds other than those of revolt. Bright colors arranged in blazing, almost  anarchic mozaics, with the fire as their central element, tell us of troubled passions tending to final undulations, sublime sortileges, disenchanted figures held captive of our time. We see them, both by the visible action of a redeeming angel and the disfigured wingless man dreaming of their possession.  It all happens as if the artist, while travelling through the earth, our common abode, would imprint inventories of moments in blazing tones, purging the stigmas of a decaying scenario which would not otherwise fade away. Being it unquestionable that we are appeasing ancient flames, it is no less true that we should realize the nature of the fire we have lit.  The artist has initiated the alchemist process of its manipulation, choosing as a mean the aesthetic side of the artistic creation, since somehow, sometime, somewhere, all of us will also one day have to choose how to perform it.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Jorge Coutinho