Gonçalo Preto

Gonçalo Preto

BornNationalityBased In
1991PortugueseLisbon
Biography

What immediately strikes from Goncalo Preto’s production it’s how his sophisticated pictorial technique is applied to the creation of situations that are often embedded with a tense atmosphere, as parts of disconnected narratives that compose the whole visual world of the artist. Since his second solo show, Middle Finger Pedestrians, presented at the gallery in November 2019, the artist started a new series of paintings originated by the interest in the representation of dim environments, focusing on the portrayal of different light sources and on how the observer's eye adapts to the blackness of the different represented scenes. His most recent works show a development in this research about vision where the artist plays with our vision and its reaction to light, focus, proximity, abstraction and the mysterious creation scenes that seem to belong to everybody’s lost memories. ...

Selected Artworks
Variations of a sunset I
Gonçalo Preto
Variations of a sunset I, 2022
160 x 120cm
PINK RODIN
Gonçalo Preto
PINK RODIN, 2021
29 x 43cm
Os Três Ws (Dúplice)
Gonçalo Preto
Os Três Ws (Dúplice), 2023
200 x 150cm
Os Três Ws (Outrora)
Gonçalo Preto
Os Três Ws (Outrora), 2023
200 x 150cm
Córtex
Gonçalo Preto
Córtex, 2023
200 x 300cm
Partitura-Estrelas e Estilhaços
Gonçalo Preto
Partitura-Estrelas e Estilhaços, 2023
90 x 120cm
Gallery Representation
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