Based on Charles Darwin’s writings on the origin of the species, this exhibition addresses the natural selection within the group of predators, of which man is a part. Mankind has become the dominant species and the largest and most fearsome predator.

A partir de leituras de Charles Darwin, na compreensão da origem das espécies, esta exposição aborda a seleção natural dentro do grupo dos predadores, do qual o Homem faz parte. O Homem é a espécie que se tornou dominante e o maior e mais temível predador.

The Ghost and The Darkness are the names of the two massive, maneless, man-eating lions hunted railway workers in the Tsavo region of Kenya. During a nine-month period in 1898, the lions killed at least 35 people and as many as 135, according to different accounts. 

In-Person conversation between João Louro and Nuno Crespo will be available here

JOÃO LOURO

João Louro was born in 1963, in Lisbon, where he lives and works. He studied architecture at the University of Lisbon and painting at the Ar.Co School of Visual Art. João Louro’s body of work encompasses painting, sculpture, photography and video.

João Louro’s work descends from minimal and conceptual art, with special attention to avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century. It draws out a topography of time, with references that are personal but mainly they are generational. With regular recourse to language as a source, as well as the written word, he seeks a review of the image in contemporary culture, starting out from a set of representations and symbols from the collective visual universe. Minimalism, conceptualism, Pop culture, structuralism and post-structuralism, authors such as Walter Benjamin, Guy Debord, Georges Bataille and Blanchot as well as artists like Donald Judd and the ever-present Duchamp, form the  reference lexical universe  of the artist.

He was the Portuguese representative at the Venice Biennale of 2015, with the exhibition “I Will Be Your Mirror | Poems and Problems”.

João Louro nasceu em Lisboa em 1963, onde vive e trabalha. Estudou arquitetura na Faculdade de Arquitetura de Lisboa e Pintura na Escola Ar.Co. O seu trabalho engloba pintura, escultura, fotografia e vídeo.

Descendente da arte minimal e conceptual, tem uma atenção especial às vanguardas do início do séc XX. O seu trabalho traça uma topografia do tempo, com referências pessoais mas, sobretudo, geracionais. Utiliza como fonte recorrente a linguagem, a palavra escrita, e procura fazer uma revisão da imagem na cultura contemporânea, a partir de um conjunto de representações e símbolos do universo visual coletivo. O minimalismo, o conceptualismo, a cultura pop, o estruturalismo e pós-estruturalismo, autores como Walter Benjamin, Guy Debord, Georges Bataille, Blanchot ou artistas como Donald Judd ou Duchamp, formam o léxico através do qual João Louro se exprime.

Foi o representante de Portugal na Bienal de Veneza de 2015, com a exposição “I Will Be Your Mirror | Poems and Problems”.