The New Artists of P55.ART (October 2022 Edition)
New artists register on P55.ART every day, however our platform already has more than a thousand artists, and the following question arises: Who are the new artists on P55? Discover in this article five young people belonging to the new generation of artists from P55.ART, full of new ideas that contribute to an increase in the diversity of cultural expressions.
Rita Melo, Portuguese visual artist, born in 1982 in the city of Porto, with training at the Escola Universitária das Artes de Coimbra in the field of Painting, Postgraduate at the University of Fine Arts in Lisbon and Master in Visual Arts at the University of Évora. His painting is assumed by the irony evident in the pictorial and conceptual conception. Mostly in large proportions, his creative process is born from photography. Its antagonistic figures, where chance is invited to participate, support humor and irony.
“His paintings transport us to a constant synesthesia between a past opposed to an imagetic 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 back to a set of images, which in his 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 the pictorial expressiveness and the iconic rigor of the stereotyped 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
Hugo Castilho creates an intimate universe, by combining his taste for fantasy and drawing with line relief. Based on the surface, the drawing, modeled and painted, emerges as a three-dimensional work. In this meeting, life is celebrated in an inclusive, ethical and humorous way, by embracing humans, animals and nature as vehicles of figurative expression.
Hugo Castilho born in Setúbal in 1995, graduated in Visual Arts - Multimedia variant in 2016, at the University of Évora and, in 2021, completed a Master's Degree in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. He individually exhibited his artistic work in 2017 and 2019 at the Espaço das Artes of the Casa da Cultura de Setúbal, and in 2022 at the Arte Periférica Gallery at the Centro Cultural de Belém. Collectively, he exhibited at Zetgallery in Braga in 2019, and at Drawing Room Lisboa at Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes in 2021, represented by Galeria Arte Periférica. Currently, he is focused on producing high-relief paintings and writes non-fiction novels.
Talita Barbosa is a Luso-Brazilian painter who graduated in Fine Arts from the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, in São Paulo. With a style inspired by pop art and comic books, the artist produces paintings with acrylic paint on 3D canvas, uses strong and vibrant colors, always delineated by a precise contour that brings a striking contrast between the elements of the work. "I believe it." that we all need color in our lives to face everyday life with enthusiasm" — Talita Barbosa
Mafalda David is a Portuguese graphic designer based in Faro, Portugal. For the last 10 years, he has been working in studios and with agencies, as well as various personal and commissioned projects. "Inspired when in movement I like to absorb new ideas and concepts from different realities, cultures and styles, finding a message in each new experience." — Mafalda David
Catarina is a self-taught artist in painting, with a degree in tourism. He usually says that he knows he is an artist since he managed to hold a crayon for the first time. Since the pandemic, he left the corporate world behind and developed his art, creating vibrant works full of light and joy. There is something magical about seeing the beauty of flowers and plants and being able to transform them into beautiful abstract paintings. He paints on canvas and paper, the latter being his most collected type of work. Your work comes about intuitively, letting your body and emotions guide your movement. The creative process is her therapy, the place where she feels most herself as she searches for the life and positivity that this world of ours offers. Use acrylic paints, pastels, charcoal, oil, graphite, colored pencils and even elements from your garden. She spends her days at home painting in her studio, inspired by the simplicity of everyday life and nature. His paintings are extensions of his garden. She currently lives in Cascais with her husband and dogs and spends her time traveling between Cascais and Alentejo, where her family is originally from and where she feels at home.
