Joao Galrao's Page

The project “Now, let me introduce you…” is a group show with works of the Portuguese artists Gonçalo Pena, João Galrão, Miguel Soares and Rui Horta Pereira. The exhibition will be shown at Farmleight Gallery on September 2008, in a partnership between the latter and the Portuguese gallery Graça Brandão Porto/Lisboa. The curator is the Brazilian art critic Paulo Reis, director and editor of Dardo Magazine (a publication specialized in Portuguese, Spanish and Brazilian contemporary art).
The artists selected by the curator represent a variety of mediums such as painting, sculpture, drawing, photography and video. They are well known in the artistic scene amongst their generation and have experienced an international career, either at group shows and solo exhibitions. For the curator, the project shows a Contemporary Portugal through its thematic variety, conceptual and stylistc modern practices.
João Galrão is an artist who shapes his work by decomposing the original shape. From his sculptures – wood structures covered with canvas – erupt organic forms, like fungus that contaminate the scene and these eruptions deform it. His objects and reliefs conjugate the historic influence of Arte Povera, mainly the pieces of Giulio Paulini and the new British sculpture of Tony Cragg.

Other Works:

"You are now in my dreams", Graça Brandão Gallery, Porto