Selected Artworks
João Queiroz
João Queiroz began exhibiting painting and drawing in the early 1980s, while studying Philosophy at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. Both interests converge in his work, which is dedicated to an informed reflection on the role of the image in contemporary times.
The experimental methods he has explored to tackle old problems of the language of art involve both the potential of the words inscribed in the compositions and, since 1998, the possibility of a sensory and non-descriptive representation of nature. João Queiroz taught drawing, painting and art theory at Ar.Co (1989-2001) in Lisbon, where he currently lives and works.
Things are not completely defined. There is no previous ideology able to define the world as it is now. The indeterminacy that remains in the painting has to do with this indeterminacy that I think exists in the things around us.
João Queiroz in interview with Miguel Nabinho