Gil Heitor Cortes\u00e3o\u2019s (Lisbon, 1967) oeuvre aims to keep alive Utopian ideals from modernism, expressed through interior design and architecture. Making painting his principle medium, Cortes\u00e3o\u2019s applies a rare technique of painting oil on the back of a Plexiglas sheet. His paintings seduce with the sleekness of their surface, which conceals the texture of the oil paint, and deceives the viewer by resembling some of the key characteristics of photography.<\/p>\n
Although based on old photographic material from books and magazines from the 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s, the final paintings are in fact variations rather than appropriations of their initial source. Scratches, lines of texture, streaks of paint, alterations of scale, distortions and blurring among other, remove the initial subject and introduce instead a new object, which narrates a culture of its own.<\/p>\n
The work of Gil Heitor Cortes\u00e3o\u2019s is included in some of the most important collections including Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon), EDP\u2013Electricidade de Portugal (Lisbon), Cole\u00e7\u00e3o Funda\u00e7\u00e3o de Serralves (Oporto, Portugal), Cole\u00e7\u00e3o Ant\u00f3nio Cachola (Elvas, Portugal), Muse\u00e9 d\u2019Art Moderne Grand\u2013Duc Jean (Mudam, Luxemburg) or SPM: Salsali Private Museum (Dubai) among other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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