João Louro
Portugal
João Louro was born in Lisbon in 1963, where he lives and works. He studied Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of Lisbon and Painting at Ar.Co. His work encompasses painting, sculpture, photography, and video.
Influenced by minimal and conceptual art, Louro has a particular focus on the avant-gardes of the early 20th century. His work maps a topography of time, with personal but primarily generational references. He frequently uses language and written words as a recurring source, aiming to revise the image in contemporary culture, drawing on a set of representations and symbols from the collective visual universe. Minimalism, conceptualism, pop culture, structuralism and post-structuralism, as well as figures like Walter Benjamin, Guy Debord, Georges Bataille, and Blanchot, or artists like Donald Judd and Duchamp, form the lexicon through which João Louro expresses himself.
He represented Portugal at the 2015 Venice Biennale with the exhibition I Will Be Your Mirror | Poems and Problems.
Influenced by minimal and conceptual art, Louro has a particular focus on the avant-gardes of the early 20th century. His work maps a topography of time, with personal but primarily generational references. He frequently uses language and written words as a recurring source, aiming to revise the image in contemporary culture, drawing on a set of representations and symbols from the collective visual universe. Minimalism, conceptualism, pop culture, structuralism and post-structuralism, as well as figures like Walter Benjamin, Guy Debord, Georges Bataille, and Blanchot, or artists like Donald Judd and Duchamp, form the lexicon through which João Louro expresses himself.
He represented Portugal at the 2015 Venice Biennale with the exhibition I Will Be Your Mirror | Poems and Problems.
