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MARTINHO DIAS
MARTINHO DIAS, (b. 1968) is a visual artist from Portugal.
His
work moves itself, above all, in a social and political criticism
inside a contemporary reality. He unfolds this reality, which is common
to us, in a suggestive, implied way. He privileges patterns of
information collecting photographs from the mass media, such as
newspapers, magazines or images taken from the television. In an
intelligent way, he uses these “models” of his for the accomplishment
of pictorial compositions, which are the substratum of the
representations of figures and bodies of his painting, faced as an
inevitability of the daily life.
“His vision regards the
conscience as the element that identifies the human identity. Martinho
Dias equates the deconstruction of the several fringes of the reality
as we perceive it, in what Debord calls “the integrated spectacular”,
and reconfigures them in the plan of the canvas, showing in several
levels and in various forms (in the realism of the figures, in the
sketch or in the partial erasure) that the apprehension of the outside
world will not be possible for us, unless the painting itself is so
complex and multiform as the global world.” (Hugo Barata)
The
excellent technical control of the work of Martinho Dias skims the
irony, the cynicism or the paradox and it transports us beyond the
painting itself, to legitimate and different experienced realities, as
well as to a world in transit, even if involuntarily.
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