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Wallace Alves was born in Cataguases, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. His interest for Arts turned out while he was still a child, when he made his first drawings with pencil and his first paintings with gouache. At the beginning, all his works were figurative. He is graduated from the Minas Gerais Federal University, with a specialization in neurosurgery and spinal sur- gery at the Minas Gerais Hospital Foundation. He is currently a neurosurgeon and is working in two hospitals: the Materdei and the João XXIII. Self-taught painter, he has been influenced by the abstract impressionists, but also got some inspirati- on from great Flemish masters as Vincent Van Gogh and Willem de Kooning and from the german artist Gerard Richter. 82 Caminho do Ouro, 2018, huile sur toile, 90 x 90 cm. www.heclectik-art.com