Terminal I Painting

Pedro Besugo, born in Setúbal, 1971, lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. From an early age onwards, Besugo has always managed to combine his two passions: art and travel. Won a first prize drawing competition when he was seven and bought his first camera at the age of ten. As a teenager he begins to hitchhike throughout Europe sleeping in parks, train stations, living in squats with different communities including the Hare Krishnas and experimenting with street art. This taste for the extreme leads him to be selected and win the International Survivor reality tv show competition in Panama in 2001, where contestants are stranded on a remote island try to survive while facing challenging tasks. All of these travels inform greatly his art practice. His multilayered paintings are a juxtaposed record of travel memories, maps, network lines, coordinates, city landmarks, architecture and transit spaces. His technique blends a web of abstract drawing, painting, collage, and ink. In 1986, Besugo enters the secondary school Escola Artística António Arroio in Lisbon - where he later teaches in the Audiovisual Image and Communication Department from 2007 to 2010. In 2001 he earns a bachelor’s degree in fine arts - Sculpture, from the Faculdade de Belas Artes de Lisboa; followed by a Master of Fine Arts and Education from the Universidade Lusófona in Lisboa in 2011. In 2010 he exhibits at Arton Art Gallery, The Museum of Kyoto, and in Eye of Gyre Gallery, in Tokyo, Japan, representing a series for the 150 º Anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Commerce between Portugal and Japan. Besugo’s work is featured in private and public collections including: Fundação Oriente, Macau, China; Western Union Philippines for the Art Collection of the Embassies in the Countries of Asia Pacific, Gil Foundation, Lisboa, Portugal; Portuguese Embassy in Tokyo; Private Bank Atlântico, Lisboa, Portugal; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lisbon, Portugal; Pro Dignitate, Lisboa, Portugal; Museu do Trabalho Michel Giacometti, Setúbal, Portugal; Valormed, Lisbon, Portugal; Pfizer, Anderlecht, Belgium; Garrigues, Lisbon, Portugal; and Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicaçoes, Lisbon, Portugal.