Artwork description:

This new series I'm working on is an amalgamation of Francis Bacon and the displays for statues in the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. During one of my many visits to the museum, when looking at the display of central american art, I realised how similar they look to the paintings of Francis Bacon, of whom I'm a follower of sorts. At that very moment I remembered an exhibition of his at the Tate Liverpool called ´Invisible Rooms.´ From where the series name comes from.

At the same time in Paris, at the Centre Pompidou, there was a major exhibition of Francis Bacon happening. Upon my return to Lisbon I went straight to Paris to visit the exhibition in its final days. The exhibition was so beautiful I wanted to cry. But the most important aspect of my visit was to study how Bacon created the architecture of the rooms in which he placed his figures. He was an absolute genius in dealing with space relation on a two dimensional surface. Certainly he would have made a terrific ( if not frightening) architect.

On this series I´ll explore not only spatial relation regarding figures in the Metropolitan Museum display, but also different printing methods coming together. Here I´m printing in both woodcut and silkscreen.

I'm looking foward to seein where this exploration will take me. It will be a very interesting journey. Hope you all like it and most importantly buy it!

Materials used:

Ink on paper

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