Rita Melo, Portuguese visual artist, born in 1982 in the city of Porto, trained at the Escola Universitária das Artes de Coimbra in the field of Painting, Postgraduate from the University of Fine Arts of Lisbon and Master in Visual Arts from the University of Évora. His painting is evident due to the irony evident in its pictorial and conceptual conception. Mostly in large proportions, his creative process arises
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Rita Melo, Portuguese visual artist, born in 1982 in the city of Porto, trained at the Escola Universitária das Artes de Coimbra in the field of Painting, Postgraduate from the University of Fine Arts of Lisbon and Master in Visual Arts from the University of Évora. His painting is evident due to the irony evident in its pictorial and conceptual conception. Mostly in large proportions, his creative process arises from photography. His antagonistic figures, where chance is invited to participate, support humor and irony.
“His paintings transport us to a constant synesthesia between a past contrasted with an imagistic look at the future, in which the present only seems to function with the articulation of these two (in)temporal states. His work takes us to a set of images, which in its interpretation, play with a contradictory language in its symbolic and semantic sense, but which, on the other hand, mirrors a chaotic vision of current reality. It is also, in a symbiosis with pictorial expressiveness and the iconic rigor of the stereotypical image, that Rita Melo communicates our place in the present, with a process of construction/evolution, in which the past is always a starting point for a new life, a recycling, a neo –(…). It doesn’t mix – it reinvents itself.” —Teresa Melo
