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Atelier Coloris
Founded in 2022, Atelier Coloris aims to contribute to the development of artistic creation in Corsica (the island I live on), offering various workshops for awareness, artistic and environmental education suitable for all audiences, but especially designed for children.You can find out more about this project in the gallery or on Atelier Coloris Facebook page.
Protese Involuntaria Band
Protese Involuntaria was a kind of conceptual punk/hardcore band co-created with Fabio Couto (Battery), Dinis Carrilho (Guitar) and André (Bass) he would later give way to Roberto Afonso) I was the Vocal Leader.
Between 2007 and 2012 we played all around Portugal but with the end of the University, the disintegration of the group and my departure from Portugal, the project was puted on standby.
During that time we recorded two albums: the first "Protese Involuntaria" 2008 and the second "A Mama Acabou" 2012 with Carlos Borges at the Bass replacing Roberto.
Here, you can access the Albums and some special projects like the One Year Band Documentary or the "Tira a Mascara" and "É Fixe" Videoclips, also available on YouTube like the rest of our video documentation.
Between 2007 and 2012 we played all around Portugal but with the end of the University, the disintegration of the group and my departure from Portugal, the project was puted on standby.
During that time we recorded two albums: the first "Protese Involuntaria" 2008 and the second "A Mama Acabou" 2012 with Carlos Borges at the Bass replacing Roberto.
Here, you can access the Albums and some special projects like the One Year Band Documentary or the "Tira a Mascara" and "É Fixe" Videoclips, also available on YouTube like the rest of our video documentation.
ZÉ PINTOR COMICS
A Comics project created in May 2014 and developed for one and an half year between London, Uk and Corsica Island.
Zé Pintor (Painter Joe, literally) is a fictional character, characterized by his existentialist ideas. In his head runs a lot of various theories and weird despairs that we'll get to know through short Comics.
During this time, eighteen comics were created, as well as some special pages and extra drawings.
Zé Pintor (Painter Joe, literally) is a fictional character, characterized by his existentialist ideas. In his head runs a lot of various theories and weird despairs that we'll get to know through short Comics.
During this time, eighteen comics were created, as well as some special pages and extra drawings.
France PMU's 2013
PMU is the acronym for Pari Mutuel Urbain, an organization which manages betting on horse racing and other sports in France. By extension, the PMU is the place, often a café or tobacconist, where you can bet on sports and horse races. This series of paintings is the result of my life experience for approximately a year in the suburbs of Paris, where in addition to the hardness of the work, I was constantly confronted with this reality of cafes/bars where emigrants gathered around a coffee betting on everything, euromillions, football, etc., trying to get lucky believing that would free them from their prison that is the condition of slave and immigrant. These works were designed and executed for an exhibition at the LaClef cultural center in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
On a formal as well as an ideological level, it ends up reflecting the derivatives of my master's thesis and the "Football Matters" project and the problems pointed out to society in that period.
On a formal as well as an ideological level, it ends up reflecting the derivatives of my master's thesis and the "Football Matters" project and the problems pointed out to society in that period.
China One 2012
Work developed during the three weeks artistic residency at Sunhoo Industrial Design and Innovation Park in Hangzhou, China. The aim of the residence program was to create a space for artists and designers to go cross cultural borders, acquire knowledge about materials and designs in the region and exchange their unique perspectives, bringing diversity, knowledge and experience to the project and the region.
I took the opportunity to develop some quickly executed paintings (given the time), inspired not only by the strange landscape, neo-urban and under construction, as well as by larger symbols of Chinese culture, such as a painting of a plaster bust of Mao Zedong, or a painting of the classic red paper lamps.
In this project there was also a presentation at the Chinese Art Academy and the publication of a magazine.
I took the opportunity to develop some quickly executed paintings (given the time), inspired not only by the strange landscape, neo-urban and under construction, as well as by larger symbols of Chinese culture, such as a painting of a plaster bust of Mao Zedong, or a painting of the classic red paper lamps.
In this project there was also a presentation at the Chinese Art Academy and the publication of a magazine.
Back to Earth 2012
Back to Earth is, after the master's degree, as the name suggests, an end and a beginning, a return to Earth, but in this case it will be more, a return to the countryside, which in Portuguese ends up being used by the same word, "terra", which means land, a return to the lands, to the fields, to the countryside, and therefore to Earth, mother Earth.
Here, the football fields and the society problems were abandoned, and the search for the landscape and beauty as the painter's relationship with nature began.
Here, the football fields and the society problems were abandoned, and the search for the landscape and beauty as the painter's relationship with nature began.
Football Matters 2010/11
The central theme of my master's thesis entitled "Being an expressionist in the 21st century". Here, I developed a whole series of works that tried to reflect on the society of the spectacle and how art could or should work in order to reach a greater number of people, using symbols produced by that consumer society itself, and assimilating them to art methods and techniques linked to individual expression. Here, in this subject, I also try to address the harmful effect of football fanaticism by comparing it to religion, assuming this fanaticism in myself through the development of all these works relating to Sporting Clube de Portugal and its colors.
Searching for Something 2006/09
Records of the work developed during studies, to understand the complexity of the artist's decisions and his path, it is necessary to go to the roots, and see what he was experimenting and developing until he reached the present day.
Here are the bases of this study, searching for something, several images of work developed during my degree and at the beginning of my master's degree, however, I invite you to visit my old blog where all this information is available in a more complete way,
Here are the bases of this study, searching for something, several images of work developed during my degree and at the beginning of my master's degree, however, I invite you to visit my old blog where all this information is available in a more complete way,
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