{"id":58,"date":"2021-01-13T19:08:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T19:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gilheitorcortesao.com\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2021-02-28T10:09:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T10:09:24","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/gilheitorcortesao.com\/index.php\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gil Heitor Cortes\u00e3o (Lisbon, 1967) reverses the traditional painting process by applying oil painting on one side of Plexiglass sheets and choosing to exhibit the unpainted side. He frequently uses as source material photography from different origins, much of them concerning modernist architecture and design from the 1950\u2019s, 60\u2019s or 70\u2019s. He deconstructs outlines and surfaces, conjuring new situations and unexpected associations. Much of his recent work focuses on the exploration of liminal spaces \u2013 thresholds, frontiers, transitions.<\/p>\n<p>His work is included in several collections, including Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon), Funda\u00e7\u00e3o ARCO (Madrid), \u00a0EDP\u2013Electricidade de Portugal (Lisbon), Cole\u00e7\u00e3o Funda\u00e7\u00e3o de Serralves (Oporto, Portugal), Cole\u00e7\u00e3o Ant\u00f3nio Cachola (Elvas, Portugal) or Muse\u00e9 d\u2019Art Moderne Grand\u2013Duc Jean \u2013 Mudam (Luxemburg), among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gil Heitor Cortes\u00e3o (Lisbon, 1967) reverses the traditional painting process by applying oil painting on one side of Plexiglass sheets and choosing to exhibit the unpainted side. He frequently uses as source material photography from different origins, much of them concerning modernist architecture and design from the 1950\u2019s, 60\u2019s or 70\u2019s. He deconstructs outlines and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"about.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gilheitorcortesao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gilheitorcortesao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gilheitorcortesao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gilheitorcortesao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gilheitorcortesao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/gilheitorcortesao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"http:\/\/gilheitorcortesao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gilheitorcortesao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}