Jorge Américo Catalogue March 2016

catalogue MAR . 2016

Jorge AmĂŠrico

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Jorge AmĂŠrico b. 1984, Portugal Lives and works in Silves, Portugal.

Jorge AmĂŠrico practice is focused on memory and how our past can merge with our present creating new ways of seeing and thinking our times.

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Untitled Acr ylic paint; industrial glue; lime and wood structure.

105 x 105 cm 2015

â‚Ź650,00 * VAT will be added to prices where applicable.

Untitled Acr ylic paint; industrial glue; lime and wood structure.

70 x 135 cm 2015

â‚Ź550,00 * VAT will be added to prices where applicable.

200 - series II Acr ylic paint; industrial glue; lime and wood structure.

90 x 155 cm 2015

â‚Ź850,00 * VAT will be added to prices where applicable.

200 - series III Acr ylic paint; industrial glue; lime and wood structure.

120 x 55 cm 2015

â‚Ź475,00 * VAT will be added to prices where applicable.

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orge AmĂŠrico practice is focused on memory and how our past can merge with our present creating new ways of seeing and thinking our times.

Memories and nostalgic spaces are explored by the artist reflecting the idea of layers years. Working with photography and painting his body of work correlate these practices with architecture, in his case old and extremely decayed buildings. The work is site specific and the spaces are found in abandoned fields that afterwards are transported to new present inhabited spaces.

The location of those buildings is important, as they can be found in the south of Portugal, region where there is a long tradition of painting the walls periodically due to the poor materials they were made.

Those over layered walls attracted the artist to explore and rediscover them as an archaeologist. In a reverse cycle, he convey to the fore plan what was beneath resulting in a nostalgic aura.

As a skin that once protected the wall, now is exposed revealing his substance and its long hidden identity.

exhibitions 2015 “Entre a tinta e a parede” Ateliê 6 Eletricidade Estética Venue, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. (solo exhibition) 2007 Exhibition “ Jorge Américo” at the Guetto, Caldas da Rainha. (solo exhibition) 2015 Bienal de Cerveira, Cerveira. Portugal 2015 Biennial CPLP, Jovens criadores, Maputo, Mozambique.

2014 Mostra de “Jovens criadores 2014”, Famalicão. Portugal 2013 Biennial CPLP , Jovens Criadores, Salvador Da Bahia, Brasil 2013 “Jovens Criadores de Portugal 2013” Coimbra. Portugal 2009 Múltiplos de arte, Prova de Artista, Lisbon. Portugal 2008 Final show, E.S.A.D.cr, Caldas da Rainha. Portugal 2008 Outra casa no castelo, Transforma. Torres Vedras. Portugal 2007 5º festival de gravura de Évora, printmaking biennial, Evora, Portugal 2007 CLN 09, Caldas da Rainha. Portugal 2007 Semana Jovem, Aveiro. Portugal 2007 Exposição de artes plásticas, Orfeão Velho, Leiria. Portugal 2006 Jovens artistas,Viseu.Portugal 2006 Praga, Braga.Portugal

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