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2018

Dated Titled

From the series (Trolls Series)

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35 x 45 cm
14 x 17.72 in

Year

2018

Medium

Drawings & Works on Paper

Reference

f9ea874b

Gouache on paper (+ felt tip pen and couloured pencil).

1973 Lisbon, Portugal

Lourenço de Castro helds a BA in Arquitecture (University Lusíada, Lisbon), and courses: in Painting and in Visual Arts (Ar.Co., Lisbon). In 2002, he obtained an Honorable Mention of the 7th Prize for Young Painters Fidelidade (Culturgest), and in 2014 was awarded with the “Arte Hoje” prize, by the Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes de Lisboa. He has held solo exhibitions since 2005, the year in which his work was presented in Galeria Monumental with a show that included painting, drawing and video. Lourenço de Castro’s work is mainly concerned with exploring the way in which images are constituted, and how during the proccess of its creation a cultural judgement, that evaluates and
ponderates, takes part.

Troll is his latest series, of which we bring two examples. Here, the chromatic freedom so characteristic of Lourenço de Castro’s oeuvre, creates a palimpsest that unveils a hiding game. Through overlapping and transparency, the artist’s gesture is confronted with the signs of popular heroes and villains that figure in children’s stories.


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Lisbon, Campo Mártires da Pátria 101

Founded in 1986, Galeria Monumental had since its opening the overarching aim to promote both national and international contemporary art. Today, the gallery’s programme includes emerging and established artists whose framework comprehends both visual and performative arts. It has also been developing a workshop and free ateliers project for painting, draw...

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