Lunatics | Rigo 23
"este meu trabalho também tem a ver com as tecnologias que permitem comunicar uma certa visão do mundo, ie, a gravura no tempo de Dürer e a fotografia no tempo do Kennedy, no contexto das expansões territoriais Portuguesa do século XVI e Norte Americana dos séculos XX e XXI ..."
["this work is also related with technologies that allow us to communicate a certain vision of the world, i.e., the engraving in Dürer's time and the photograph in Kennedy's time, in the context of Portuguese colonial expansion of 16th Century and North American of the 20th and 21st centuries..."]
Rigo 23
Rigo (Ricardo Gouveia) was born in Madeira Island in 1966. The artist emigrated to the United States and studied at San Francisco Art Institute and Stanford University. He is a painter, a muralist, and founder of Collective Clarion Alley Mural Project, as well. He lives in San Francisco where he became well known for painting one-way signs in the streets. In 2010 he participated in the Liverpool Biennial and in the art exhibition Às Artes Cidadãos at Fundação de Serralves.
