Alexandre Madureira

In Alexandre Madureira’s work dwells the will to seduce through the interaction between the altered image of reality and the needs of people to change the relationship between signifier and meaning, between reference and linguistic sign, to confuse, to move, to allure. It is a symbolic and formal system that deals with issues occurring in common registers in which icons, knowledge and collective memory all condition us as cultural beings.

From the general to the individual, from the collective to the personal, these paintings are an imaginary space in which different types of knowledge, thoughts and feelings from different eras and times come together. In the same space, images from high, low and popular culture breathe together, never respecting any logical timeline, to create a new idea, be it poetic, ironic or critical of some current political or social event.

It is about creating a personal language that appropriates mass culture to show a mirror of our times using narrative and illustrative strategies to reveal something critical.

Alexandre Madureira is an observer who shows one way of many possible on how to tackle the state on which mass culture has created the passivity and uniformity of the masses.

Alexandre Madureira
1976, Porto, Portugal.
Lives and works in Barcelona.


2009
Course "History of exposures beyond the White Cube", MACBA Barcelona
2007
Postgraduate course in creative illustration and visual communication techniques, Escola Eina of Art & Design, Barcelona
2002
Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of Art and Design (ESAD), Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

Solo exhibitions
2016
The Marriage, Breed Art Studios, Amsterdam
2015
Whats up, Kunstverein Kulmbach, Germany (Solo exhibition).
Show down, Werner Thoni ArtSpace, Barcelona (Two person show).
2014
“Lost in translation” Werner Thoni ArtSpace, Barcelona.
2013
Artist in Residence at Werner Thoni ArtSpace, Barcelona (Residence).
2012
“Your face looks familiar” Guns & Butter Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
“IMAGINARY MUSEUM” KKKB Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
“Spam to take away” collective KKKB Gallery, Barcelona.
2011
Wallpaper, Gallery Art & Design Barcelona Barcelona-Berlin Art & Electronic Music Showcase. Niu, Espai Artistic.
2010
Print it Gallery Barcelona “Videologias Agenda 00”. Niu, Espai Artistic, Barcelona.
2009
“Pelat, peeled, skinned”. Relevant Art, Barcelona.
2008
Portugal Convida, Barcelona, Spain. “Colors Notebook”. Lisbon, Portugal, Vienna, Austria and United Arab.
2007
Open studio “in situ”, Barcelona, Spain. “Creatures” Espai Barra de Ferro, Barcelona, Spain.
2006
“Lapsus + LAP1” creative sample capsules, Barcelona, Spain.
2005
Festival “Caldas Late Night” Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.
2004-2003
“Caldas Late Night”. Festival, Caldas da Rainh...