JOSÉ LOUREIRO

Portugal, 1960

FONSECA MACEDO – ARTE CONTEMPORÂNEA

José Loureiro was born in Mangualde, in 1961. He studied painting at the Fine Art Faculty in Lisbon. He lives and works in Lisbon.

José Loureiro shows “Criaturas”, his most recent work, in oil on paper. These drawings, in a figurative expression of human faces, call our attention as the artist introduces bizarre elements, as if human beings were undergoing a deep transformation process. Are these human beings transparent? Are these colourful discs really eyes? Can they see? In amazing shapes and colours, José Loureiro criticizes with humor the changing of the humans into strange beings, with highly technological features.