SINTHOMAS, Espaço Galeria Atelier Arte e Expressão - Caldas da Rainha 2008 + opening night 23.10 - 7.11

Lips Like Morphine 2007
acrylic, markers and spraypaint on canvas
108 x 108 cm

Keep On Your Mean Side + Caught Licking Leather 2008

acrylic, markers and spraypaint on canvas

81 x 65 cm

3 x Untitled 2008

pen drawings on paper

29.7 x 42 cm

The Filthy and The Fury series 2007

ink on paper

3 x ( 70 x 100 cm )

Ready-Made 2008

installation view

Kate and Pete 2008

acrylic on canvas

120 x 240 cm

Vanitas 2008

acrylic on canvas

diameter 100 cm

Kurt 2007

acrylic on canvas

120 x 160 cm

opening photos by Paula Proença e Nuno Bettencourt

CASUAL ART

clowds @ hell

18.10.2008

The dance floor felt so velvet good that night
Eight miles high over the Sunset Strip what a trippy sight

Raymond Pettibon in Ciro's Hero, 1990

Nice EVASÃO ZINE release party... 1 in 2 @ Trinca & Clinic

11.10.08 Caldas da Rainha and Alcobaça...

banner @ Trinca - photo by Liliana Bonança

avchronicles @ Trinca - photo by Barbara Fonseca

the ambushers @ Trinca - photo by Gonçalo Nobre

djing @ Trinca - photo by Barbara Fonseca

banquinha Evasão! @ Trinca - photo by Liliana Bonança

banner @ Clinic - photo by Gonçalo Nobre

delicious package - photo by Liliana Bonança

anorakispo djing @ Clinic - photo by Liliana Bonança

Nobre @ Clinic - photo by Liliana Bonança

Evasão buddies - photo by Barbara Fonseca

... packing! 2 see more go:

www.myspace.com/evasaozine

congratulations Manuel Simões & Gonçalo Nobre 4 the nice work

SINTHOMAS exhibition plan

CASUAL ART

bodyscape #1

home digital photo

PUNK 2002

acrylic on canvas

120 x 120 cm

Conquistei, palmo a pequeno palmo, o terreno interior que nascera meu. Reclamei, espaço a pequeno espaço, o pântano em que me quedara nulo. Pari meu ser infinito, mas tirei-me a ferros de mim mesmo.

Fernando Pessoa in Livro do Desassossego, ( composto por Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros na cidade de Lisboa )

CASUAL ART

Route A8 to Lisbon autoshots

11.10.2008

MY PLAN 2002

acrylic on canvas

120 x 120 cm

next exhibition - 23 de Outubro, Caldas da Rainha

... the symptom does not call for interpretation: in itself it is not a call to the Other but a pure jouissance addressed to no one.

Jacques Lacan

Black Book cover by Dj Nightmare

In art only the bizarre is beautiful.

Baudelaire

GALERIA, Galeria Palmira Suso - Lisboa 2004

I think the use of junk causes permanent cellular alteration. Once a junky, always a junky. You can stop using junk, but you are never off after the first habit.

W. S. Burroughs in Junky, p. 117

YOU MUST BE CERTAIN OF THE DEVIL 2007
pen and ink drawing on paper
100 x 70 cm
photo by Pedro Cá

The self-knowledge achieved through personal discovery and visionary states seems alien, even repellent, compared to the voyeuristic gaze, the virtual entertainments and hypnotic distractions of contemporary culture.


Daniel Pinchbeck, Breaking Open The Head p.5 ( edição Flamingo, 2004 )

CASUAL ART

Route A8 to Lisbon xpressshots

1.10.2008

... that most terrible drug - ourselves - which we take in solitude.

Walter Benjamin