Collages

I am mainly a collagist more than a painter. I started in 1973 doing it as a legacy from painters of the begining of the XX century like Picasso, Bracque and others. They were famous more as painters but also did many collages - then called "Papiers Collés" or "glued papers". The term "collage" came later with the surrealists who used collage as one of the most automatic and therefore less streamlined forms of artistic expression.

Collage is in itself a more spontaneous form of expression, but this does not create limits to the free expression of the artist. Collage can also express the artist's emotions and not just stick to paper on a surface.

On the other hand the collage is not photo-montage as wrongly many "experts" identify it. This way of expression can even use objects and other things found even in the garbage as did some of the Dada and later by Surrealists. It is also a way of giving back some dignity of these objects thrown into the trash and treated as such (magazines, newspapers, birthday cards, old photographs, etc.).

Some of the collages i show below were exhibited in several national and international exhibitions namely those dedicated to Surrealism:

These two collages were exhibited at the gallery of ISPA (The Institut of Applied Psicology) in Lisbon, the year of 1994.

 These two collage-paintings "Trabalho (work) and "Proximidade" (Proximity) belong to the private collection of the Turkey Surrealist Group and they were exhibited on the Turkey Surrealists event "...". . Not for sale.

  This is a collage-painting entitled "The Audrey´s Smile" and is dedicated to Audrey Hepburn one of the best actresses in the past. For sale.

  

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