Renato Costa

Statement
"Against intellectual imposture"
From the point of view of artistic discipline, my work claims the manual production of painting, in an attitude of freedom that attempts to shed all prejudices.
With the realization that the object painted canvas painting, above all, it is an attitude and an intellectual power, you need the eye, the body and hands to communicate directly with the company, my work in many cases, is based in photographs taken of the media, Internet, movies, food serving as fragmented memories of world events. With the intention of "encapsulate" these images, to take them by way of pills that act against the disease of indifference. It is, above all, a way to blend in with what happened, to obtain a self-portrait as a dialogue with oneself, and through it, an interpretation of the meaning of existence from the point of view of being someone artist.
At this point, the encapsulate a photographic image, a pictorial way to make turns, twists and turns between genres and techniques and that some form plays a love story with the history of painting, generates a tension, formulated as antithesis, between an artistic attitude cold and a warm, fruit of the opposition between the objective and the sub...

Complutense University of Madrid