TOTEM

Drawings on metal


Solo Show . 29th April – 29th of August 2024
Hotel Brummell, Barcelona 
With the support of  Galerie Porte B.  

Hand drawn directly with acrylic ink on the metal surface, these stacked sequences of buildings reflect on the quintessential urban typology of the contemporary city.
The skyscraper.

Sometimes directly inspired in a specific city like Tokyo, New York or Hong Kong, these works lie between a sculpture and a two dimensional drawing, where the hand drawn lines enhanced by a shade of graphite create a trompe-l'œil, an illusion of tridimensionality that intensifies the presence of each artwork.


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Hong Kong Faces

Drawings on stone


This work was part of a solo show at Port B gallery in Paris.

A overlay of HK’s urbanscapes with the faces of strangers I’ve encounter on the streets of the city. A reversed archeological artefact with different layers of ink, charcoal and gold foil on the broken stone slabs.


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Tokyo Flow

Drawings on metal

Part of an ongoing series of artworks based on my personal recollections of Tokyo’s urban scape. Knitting together fragments of the urban texture and details of the city.

This work was part of a solo show at Port B gallery in Paris.

New York Strip

Drawings on paper

A long view of an imaginary Manhattan skyline, so long that the perspective start to distort and deform the featured buildings.

This work was part of a solo show at Porte B gallery in Paris.

Paris Frames

Drawings on brass

This is a very special artwork based on my walks along the river Seine. Created in a month-long residency in Paris. It features the diffent facades that caught my eye during my walks from Parc André Citröen to Bercy.

Always alongside the river, there is a linear urban narrative that goes from Post-modernism to Classical and back to Modernism again.

This work was part of a solo show at Port B gallery in Paris.

A series of illustrations for the Critics Section at The New Yorker magazine. Focused on some cultural buildings in NYC but quickly evolved to different graphical representation of the city.

From 2012 to 2013, each month a new drawing was published on the magazine.

Tokyo Surface

Personal work, 2023 

Portraits from a moment in the city.
A series of drawings based on interviews of people that I met in Tokyo.

A solo exhibition at the Embassy of Portugal in Tokyo, from the 27th November to 1st December 2023.


Join us for the public finissage
Friday, 1st December, 18.30h - 20.30h

Embassy of Portugal in Japan
3-6-6 Nishi-AzabuMinato-ku, Tokyo 106-0031

An experiment based on a Japanese brush for calligraphy.

At my last visit to Japan, I fell in love with a brush (that happens, right?).
Loved its sensitivity, fluidity and expressiveness.
After filling many notebooks with a continuous line that reflected my breathing while drawing, I wondered what would happen with a change to a larger format.
For that I had recreate the brush and draw on the floor barefooted.

Each piece is a record of a different rhythm and time and invites you to follow the line and replicate the cadence of each breath.

These are sculptures made of plastic trash and debris collected along the coast of Pico, a island which is part of the Azores archipelago, situated right in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

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