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CARLOS AZEVEDO | Mexico | silkscreen print, limited edition of 8 | 2025
This work is based on an original drawing from 1998, made during a trip to Mexico.
Perhaps due to the circumstances of the journey, the artist used drawing materials that did not withstand the passage of time, and excessive exposure to sunlight caused it to evolve into the form shown below.
This sparked an interest in applying the original iconography in an exercise of revisiting the drawing, which culminated in the production of multiples using the screen printing technique. The current graphic design varies from the original drawing, challenging us to play a ‘spot the difference’ game. The entire production process was carried out in the artist's studio in 2025.
About the artist
Carlos Azevedo, born in Lourenço Marques on 11 April 1963.
With a degree in Fine Arts/Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, he has been a professor of Visual Arts since 1990 and currently teaches in Figueira da Foz. He has illustrated school books for Edições ASA and for the magazine UNIDADE of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, also designed murals in nightclubs and bars. He worked as a graphic designer and collaborated on fanzines and comic books, and started an engraving workshop, working in this area, designing and producing a tile mural for the gardens of Quarteirão das Artes, in Montemor-o-Velho. He participated in the event ‘100 hours of drawing’ by Robert Schad and Túlia Saldanha, at the Circle of Plastic Arts of Coimbra. He developed design and communication work within the scope of the Fábrica Mondego Project and as a ceramist at the Centro de Formação Profissional para a Indústria Cerâmica (CENCAL) in Caldas da Rainha. In 1986, his work was exhibited at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's Modern Art Centre. The artist is represented in several private collections with drawings and paintings.
Solo exhibitions: 2026 - Showcase at Vantag Gallery | 2014 – “Capite et Tractio”, Vantag Bombarda, Porto| 2012 - “Lorem Ipsum”, Vantag Bombarda, Porto| 2013 - Exhibition of engravings, Driftwood Collective, Figueira da Foz.
Group exhibitions: 2016 - “V de Verão (4th edition)” MB552, Porto| 2015 – “Nichos de Arte”, DM2, Porto; “Be Smart Buy Art”, MB552, Porto. 2014 – “V de Verão” , Vantag Bombarda, Porto; “Gliding Barnacles”, Auto Peninsular, Figueira da Foz| 2013 – “Arte Lisboa |2013 – Contemporary Art Fair” / IN Festival, FIL, Lisbon; “Pague Leve & Leve”, Vantag Bombarda, Porto; “Be Smart Buy Art”, Vantag Bombarda, Porto; “Draw It First”, Vantag DM2, Porto; “1 Visão sobre 1 Colecção (parte 3)”, Vantag DM2, Porto; “Proyector”, International Video Art Festival, Alliance Française, Coimbra | 2012 – “Secret Business”, Vantag DM2, Porto | 2011 – “Video/drawing performance”, Quarteirão Primavera, Montemor-o-Velho | 1986 – “III Plastic Arts Exhibition”, C.A.M. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon | 1985 – “ESBAP Students Collective”, ESBAP Exhibition Hall, Porto; “ESBAP Students Collective”, Matosinhos; “ESBAP Students Collective”, Hotel Batalha, Porto.
Publications and editions: 2025 - screen print, México, limited edition of 8| 2015 – Imagine postcard collection, Vantag Editions | 2014 – V.graph Series, Vantag Editions | 2013 – Illustration of Poems by Manuel Coelho, ESJC.
Artistic interventions: 2019 – In situ artistic intervention for Casa Vantag, inspired by Cartier-Bresson’s photograph “Picnic on the Banks of the Marne”
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