ARTIST STATEMENT

JOGO DO GALO ARCHAEOLOGIES, 2014
Oil on canvas
195 x 310 cm

  
  
Having engaged subjects as diverse as multiculturalism or anti-racism, some of my work reproduces familiar visual signs arranging them into new conceptually layered pieces such as those combined into sculptures.

Each of my work is engraved with fragments: photographs, objects, drawings, paintings, texts and other inventions. The subject matter of each body of work determines the materials and the forms of the work.

As a Sculpturer, I use a variety of materials from steel and glass to bronze to create shape-changing art forms.

As a Figurative painter, I capture and illustrate the expressions and movements of the human body. My work addressing the human body with anonymous faces is representational. Depicting human poise and anatomically correct proportions, each painting combines canvas, wood, metal, oil and cloth.

My artwork creates a social environment in which people come together to participate in a shared activity. I am driven to create the expression of my feelings, imagination and reason, which are charged with intense curiosity.

In my Portraits, Face, Expression and Personality prevail rather than the superficial.

As a Still Life painter, the items I portray are mostly selected for their shapes, textures and colours and for any symbolic meaning they may have. I essentially paint vegetables, most of the times combining them with unsual elements – masks from different cultures – full of force and intensity creating thus a new narrative within the composition.