Luiz Lemos

I´m an Brasilian based artist.
In this portfolio I present a clipping of paintings and installations developed in 2018 and 19. These works reflect research on the interpretation and emptying of symbols and characteristics of a city taken from the urban context and worked in image.

I bring as a source of research the ways of building a city, the modes of communication used in a city and the urban landscape. I interpret materials, repetitions, lights, prints, graphics, communication elements and identification plates, transposing the excesses of the city into image. The urban landscape signs are removed from context and has their sense emptied: in the paintings a letter does not fulfill the function of forming words, neon lights do not advertise trades, traffic plates do not indicate localities, all symbols chosen point for the void of his urban excess

Empty the landscape by desinging its characteristics to the smallest point of recognition: A circumference and a horizontal line are sufficient to identify it. Thus, I compose the paintings with letters, clouds, circles, landscapes, mountains, prints, lights. An unlikely contact between urban communication and utopian landscape allow me to talk about the city and landscape by e...

Luiz Lemos holds a degree in Arts from the School of Fine Arts of UFMG (2013) and a master's degree in Language Studies from CEFET-MG where he researches the approximations between word and image. 

Among its individual exhibitions are: Days of Heat (CCUFMG, 2019 Curatorship Gabriela Carvalho); Dissol(seeing)Words (CULTURAL BDMG, Belo Horizonte, 2017 – Curatorship Júlio Martins); Reticence (Space 2017, Belo Horizonte, 2017- Curatorship Manu Grossi); Hiatus (Memorial Minas Gerais Vale, Belo Horizonte, 2016 – Curated Eduardo de Jesus), Anáfora (Casa Camelo, Belo Horizonte, 2015 – Curatorship Gabriela Carvalho) About Silences and Words (BDMG Cultural 2012) and Structural Memory (FAOP, Ouro Preto, 2013). Participation in collective exhibitions: Arte 30 (BDMG cultural); Algorithms (Mama/Bitch); Mostra Curto Circuito (Galeria GTO, Sesc Palladium, Belo Horizonte, 2016), Between the house and chance (Galeria Mama-Cadela, Belo Horizonte, 2015), ÁTIMO (Cultural Center of UFMG, Belo Horizonte, 2012; Shows! (Cultural Center of UFMG, Belo Horizonte, 2011 and 2012), Plena Pausa (Casa Camelo, Belo Horizonte, 2013; among others.