Francisco Guimaraes

Chico Cordeiro

Based in Rio de Janeiro, I bring with me a journey that began in childhood through drawing, which led me to create prints for the fashion market before plunging into 30 years in traditional, analog advertising featuring manual and meticulous work—the very foundation that shaped my current eye for composition.

Today, I transform that creative and award-winning background in advertising into conceptual art, where satire and irony serve as sharp tools to provoke poetic and, at times, caustic reflections on the contemporary world. Driven by an incessant curiosity, my mind fuels a diverse production that flows fluidly between oil painting, woodcut, collage, papercraft, manual embroidery, and complex sculptures crafted from industrial scrap metal. Now dedicated exclusively to art, I participate in fairs, exhibitions, and private collections around the world. It is a pleasure to share this universe with you.