Vasco Mourão

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Photo by Brian Scott Peterson Tokyo, 2019

Vasco Mourão works on the perception, texture and memory of the urban landscape. Only with a pen and time, his practice focus on the representation of cities through drawings on paper, wood and metal.
Drawings of cityscapes and other architectural meanderings at large, rearranged on the canvas.

Inhabiting a place between fine art and illustration, Vasco Mourão creates bespoke artworks and large scale murals for various private clients, galleries and institutions, working also on selected editorial commissions.
Originally from Portugal, now based in Barcelona (when not on the yearly work & travel walkabout).

Selected Clients & Collaborators

Apple, The New Yorker, The New Yorker Festival, The Washington Post, Fundação Bissaya Barreto, Museu Picasso Barcelona, UnderDogs Gallery, Established & Sons, Architectural Review, Espacio 88, Ogilvy, Domus, Gestalten, El País, etc.

Collections

Bissaya Barreto Foundation
Minho University
My Story Hotels
Artyzen Club HK
Various private collections

Grants & Awards

Bissaya Barreto Foundation
Paradise AIR
Inclasificable AIR

Exhibitions

Variations Underdogs Gallery
12/2019 . Lisbon, Portugal

Elipse
CONCRETA fair
10/2019 . Porto, Portugal

Vasco Mourão e Cassiano Branco
Júlio Dinis Museum
2019 . Ovar, Portugal

Breathing Line
Fundació La Caixa
09.2019 . Barcelona, Spain

Remember Tokyo
Almost Perfect
05/2019 . Tokyo, Japan

Remember Hong Kong
ACO gallery
03/2019 . Hong Kong, China

Fragments . Drawings on Stone
Oitavo Gallery
02/2019 . Porto, Portugal

Face Plastic
Espacio 88
01/2019 . Barcelona, Spain

Ouroborus . Drawings on Wood
Uivo 8 - Centr'Arte
01/ 2019 . Matosinhos, Portugal

Portugal Múltiplo
Bissaya Barreto Foundation
2018 . Coimbra, Portugal

Urban Fragments
Ilustração à vista Festival
2018 . Ílhavo, Portugal

Ouroborus . Drawings on Brass
Underdogs Art Store
2017 . Lisbon, Portugal

Ouroborus . Drawings on Wood
Espacio 88
2016 . Barcelona, Spain

Matsudo Perceptions
Paradise AIR
2016 . Matsudo, Japan

Drawing Poble Nou
Espacio 88
2015 . Barcelona, Spain

New York Perceptions
The Invisible Dog
2014 . New York, USA

Drawings for The New Yorker
Mitte Gallery
2014 . Barcelona, Spain

Daily Drawings
Minho University
2010 . Guimarães, Portugal

Obsession
Casa Portuguesa
2008 . Barcelona, Spain

Selected talks

PechaKucha
2019 . Tokyo, Japan

TheCreativeFest
2017 . Barcelona, Spain

PechaKucha
2016 . Tokyo, Japan

Apple Headquarters
2016 . Tokyo, Japan

Apple Stores
2016 . Tokyo, Osaka & Nagoya, Japan

Walk&Talk Art Festival
2015 . Ponta Delgada, Portugal

Get Set Festival
2015 . Oporto, Portugal

Barcelona Design Week
2013 . Barcelona, Spain

Creative Camp 180
2012 . Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal

Selected Press

O Editorial, O Observador, Form Finding Lab Princeton , Urbansetters, Creative Mornings, Público, Shift, Formagramma, 180 ID , Architectural Review, Público, SwissMiss, ArchDaily, Domus magazine, Colossal, My Modern Met, Fubiz, DesignBoom, Ignant, SuperSonic Art

Publications

Beyond Architecture
by R. Klanten, L. Feireiss
Gestalten

The Ultimate Skyscraper
by Carlos Teixeira
C/Arte

Illusive - Contemporary Illustration
by R. Klanten & J. O’Reilly
Gestalten

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Only with a black pen and time, Vasco Mourão draws urban landscapes and other architectural meanderings. On paper, wood, brass, stone or a wall.

New artworks available

Remember Hong Kong

Elipse

Creative Kitakagaya / Osaka

Cover ElPaís

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