Rui Pimenta's Page

Website

http://www.ruipimenta.com

Relationship status

single

College / University

York University

Program

Philosophy

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Painting

I am...

A visual artist born in Lisbon, Portugal, living and working in Toronto, Canada. I am a primarily self-taught artist.

About my artwork

I am interested in looking at the inner workings of the human body, challenging art history's tendency to privilege representations of the surface of the body. My paintings are presented in light boxes --a reference to x-ray light boxes and the hidden perspectives of the human body which they reveal. The subject matter itself consists of abstract depictions of human cells.

Artists I like

James Turrell, Bruce Nauman, Anish Kapoor, HC Berg,

poets: Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens

philosophers: Pascal, Montaigne, Kierkegaard, Nietszche

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

Anything at Median Contemporary (www.mediancontemporary.com) an artist run gallery owned and operated my Kal Mansur and I.