Ricardo Paula

Eternity's nostalgia, reality of ephemeral; ... Now - This!
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Gestures, souls, pieces of lives trapped in other places, contemplate us...
In these works of Ricardo Paula, we found a multiplicity of narrative universes, left open.
Desire is the leading thread that bind and defines them, creating emotional places of different densities and complexities.
In a pictorial discourse, where the tension of the drawing cohabits with the strong and vigorous brush stroke, the artist stages his stories.
Stories without time, peopled by melancholic figures, silent, belonging to an imagery which has been building and allows him to create intimate relationship points with the observer.
Ricardo Paula's painting has, in that way, the capacity of establishes an intimate commitment with our memory or with our memory's nostalgia.
Each painting is a beginning to a story, which hypnotically leads us to the scene's intimacy.
We overwhelm, and are overwhelmed, by infinitively familiar characters, and with them we start a journey deep into ourselves, redefining the image of an ancient occurrence, recreating the shadow of an emotion yet to live.

Lisbon, January 2008
Luísa Lopes


I confess that I've been following, with all ...

Academic studies – Designer (International
School for Graphic Artists and Designers –(IADE)

He has worked in Cinemas and Television (RTP-Portuguese TV )
as a Graphic Designer and in several International Publicity Agencies as Art- Director
(Publicis-Intermarco,Publicis –Lisbon,Publicis-Ciesa NCK,
Marquimage –Portugal,Barbieri,Metropolis.

Individual Exhibitions

1982 Public Library of Maynooth;

Gallery 1987 Studio City, Lisbon;

1988 Loures Municipal Museum;

1992 Peripheral Art Gallery, Lisbon;

1993 Matrix Gallery, Lisbon;

1994 "Things in size" S ", Galeria Municipal de Loures;

"Shutters", Loures Municipal Museum;

"Shutters," Movement of Contemporary Art, Lisbon;

1995 "The Angels" Movement of Contemporary Art, Lisbon;

1996 "The scrapbook, Lisbon, Nights, Days, Sky and I", Art Movement
Contemporary, Lisbon;

"Between Dream and Soul," Movement of Contemporary Art, Lisbon;

Convent of Santo Domingo, the Imaginary Festival, Abrantes;

1997 "Disenchanted", Cultural Center Malaposta, Loures;

"Eclipse Blue," Movement of Contemporary Art, Lisbon;

1998 "Disenchanted" Movement of Contemporary Art, Lisbon;

" Ethereal " Movement of Contemporary Art , Lisbon;

1999 " Hearts and Souls " Movement of Contemporary Art , Lisbon;

" The Other Heaven Circus ," Movement of Contemporary Art , Lisbon;

" The Backyard of My Grandmother and the Flag of Humanity " , Gallery Magic
Image - Company of Arts , Lisbon;

2000 " Paper...