Joao Trindade

Joao Trindade


About

1975 Oporto Portugal
lives in London
I paint because its the only way I can be true to myself.
A neo vorticist work

Fabricating dreams, redeeming myself with the holy and exorcising ghosts this is how it all started.I love the unbalance, the discontinuity, the rupture, the contrast, the sensorial and also to represent universes and an escape from the centre: giving paintings different and endless perspectives, in other words, I create a number of inside framings that can make the viewer rest his eyes while looking at my work.Almost everything can become an inspiration for me because everything has a secret structure. I just keep falling in love with the foundation lines of the city and of the human body.One of my biggest challenges is trying to make people engage with my work, trying to avoid indifference and therefore create in them some kind of reaction. That is probably why my works seem to escape the symmetry and the expected.

The creative process:I take hundreds of photos of everything I grab from the outside world, rummaging through images until I find the right one for a particular work.Besides canvas sometimes my materials are what I can collect, usually whatever has been dumped or disposed, recycling it into art and trying to make the ugly, beautiful. I like big dimensions because my work can be louder, nevertheless I still struggle with the limitative standard measure of works! I often feel that what I paint can very well continue out of these restrictions.I allow the process to be taken in two steps: the gathering of materials through collage and then painting on top of this collage with acrylic. This mixed media has therefore texture, different lays of woods and paper in order to create bi and tri dimensional areas adding to it some dynamism. Paint sometimes lives loosely from the imposed geometry, through rigid strokes I allow it to run, liquid, organic, freerandomly building up a meaning to the final work.
My colour range changes, but I tend to use warmer colours that are potentially energy conveyors. I dont really know I many hours I give to each work, everything is a result of a long process, usually painting more than one work at a time, resting it sometimes just for five minutes or even five months.I paint because its the only way I can be true to myself. Almost like a child, shameless, egocentric and regardless of boundaries. I often play around using glue, pieces of wood, paint, a saw, numerous nails, a hammer, an axe...but I also use freely my emotions such affectivity and rage. Combining all of these in my experiments I draw new and exciting pages of this artists diary.

A neo vorticist work
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Location
london, United Kingdom
Website
http://www.joaotrindade.com/
Work
http://www.joaotrindade.com/
Education
Degree in Design from Escola Superior de Artes e Design,

Friends

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  • Annemarie Busschers
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Reborn City

Painting

Joao Trindade
United Kingdom
Original $3,700
Prints from $40

cidade suspensa

Mixed Media

Joao Trindade
United Kingdom
Prints from $55

no name

Painting

Joao Trindade
United Kingdom
Homem Circulo
City of lights
My magic number 7
2versus2
Cristo
CITY FROM Sonia Delaunay (DETAIL)
triptych 01 finish

Collections

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sketchbook

10 Artworks

Events & Exhibitions

Events

Future Shows:

Reading Contemporary Artfair 2011

Saturday 14 May - Thursday 2 June
Sacred Space Gallery, St John's Church | throughout the day
Admission free everyone its invited!
Lansdowne Crescent, London, W11 2NN



one btw 128 finalists invited to display their winning artwork at the ARTPARIS Grand Palais 2011 in Paris, France from March 31, 2011 – April 3, 2011.

The sketchbook project - The tour starts February, 2011

Thousands of sketchbooks ( one mine) will be exhibited at galleries and museums as they make their way on tour across U.S.A.

After the tour, all sketchbooks will enter into the permanent collection of The Brooklyn Art Library, where they will be barcoded and available for the public to view.
Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn Art Library February 19-27, 2011

Austin, Texas Austin Museum of Art March 12th, 2011 (during the SXSW festival!)

Portland, ME SPACE Gallery March 30-April 2, 2011

Atlanta, GA The Granite Room April 8-9, 2011

Washington, DC Tranformer Gallery April 11-30, 2011

Seattle, WA Form/Space Atelier June 10-12, 2011

San Francisco, CA 111 Minna Gallery June 18, 2011

Chicago, IL Hyde Park Arts Center July 14-17

Winter Park, Florida Full Sail University July 29-July 31, 2011



SHOWCASECafe 1000,1 dray Walk E1 6QL London BricklaneWEDNESDAY 2nd June

East Gallery July214 Brick Lane London E1 6SA United Kingdom


always looking for gallery representation ;)
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Exhibitions

Reading Contemporary Artfair 2011

Notting Hill Mayfest, St John's Church

east gallery london U.K July 2010

el corte ingles - vila nova de Gaia Portugal nov 2010

Dalston boys club 100sqft Nov 2010

candid arts dec 2010

10 gales gallery 2010

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