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Martinho Costa
About
I am a painter. I’m interested in the tradition of painting, and how the contemporary images are translated in to painting. What is gained? What is lost? I, m very interested in the notion of temporality, of how an ordinary image gains a new temporality when it becomes a painting. To me every image is a possible painting. Is like a kind of everyday struggle, trying to incorporate in painting the world mediated by an uninterrupted flux of images. To me this is the paradigm of a new contemporary anxiety: the end of a hierarchy and the consequent search for an “Ideal Image” – the perfect reflection of the world. I like to think of it more like a kind of a “Quixotesc” fight in witch I’m always losing.
- Location
- Lisbon, Portugal
- Website
- http://martinho-costa.blogspot.com/
Of the solo exhibitions he does since 2003 include: Máquina de Campanha, (2005) Sopro Projecto de Arte Contemporânea; Ruína (2008), Galeria 111, Lisboa. Participates in several group exhibitions since 2000, most notably: Respublica, 1910 and 2010 face to face, at the Calouste Gulbenkian, painting prize Fidelidade, Culturgest, 2006, O Espelho deUlisses (2005), Centro de Arte São João da Madeira; Paisagem e Limiar (2007), Centro Cultural de Sines.
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Faculdade Belas Artes - Lisboa - 2000
Teoria y Prática de las Artes Plásticas Contemporâneas - Universidad Complutense de Madrid - 2003
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