João queiros

João Queiroz
(1957, Lisbon)
Began exhibiting painting and drawing in the first half of the '80s, while studying philosophy at the Faculty of Letters of Lisbon. Both interests converge in his work, enacting an informed reflection on the role of the image in contemporary, experimental approaches to problems in the ancient language of art, both to explore the potential of written words in compositions, as from 1998 when looking to see the sensory representations and non-descriptive nature. He has taught Drawing, Painting and Art Theory at Ar.Co (1989-2001). Lives and works in Lisbon.
-Biography

A visual survey of João Queiroz can not be dissociated from an early philosophical interest for aesthetic thought and the way language operates the artistic and intellectual level, something that interested him greatly during the college of Philosophy at the University of Lisbon (1984). Its initial route was however quite erratic, revealing a long process of self-discovery which lasted until the mid 90s, with wide disparity of reasons ranging from formal research dialogue between surface and forms outlined therein - were human figures, silhouettes, natural elements or dynamic objects - and the use of writing to explore ways of building the image and to provoke reactions in the observer on the perception - putting phrases in Portuguese or English to create a tension between word and image, or then, creating an obvious contradiction between what he wrote and what he represented. Common to all these works, is a willingness to explore all kinds of possibilities of artistic language - not by distancing conceptual, but ubiquitous and everyday use by design, as exercise helps clarify your own visual work. Queiroz considers central to its formation afternoons he spent at the Prado copying classical works, but also other experimental practices that allowed him to feel the distance between the "eye" and "hand" when esquissava television images with two hands simultaneously or