PONY
Francisco Mendes Moreira
We are glad to announce the upcoming Solo Exhibition “Pony” by Portuguese artist Francisco Mendes Moreira at our Turó Park Gallery.
Francisco Mendes Moreira’s first Solo exhibition at our gallery will feature large and medium format paintings, artworks on paper and sculptures showing the artist’s broad artistic approach.
The works for this show were done during the summer of 2022, through old roads and new tracks. This could serve as a reference map of the different echoes in them.
THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER
2022. Oil, oil stick and collage on canvas. 73 x 91 cm.
THE PACE
2022. Oil, oil stick and collage on canvas. 83 x 103 cm.
Francisco Mendes Moreira (Coimbra,1979) began painting in 2003 and exhibiting in 2007. His work operates with color and emotional deformation. Moreira’s practice is a way of solving problems that are based on an intuitive work process, which can be triggered by contemporary culture, endorsing psychological and political aspects. His series are predominantly made with oil pastels, painted on found and glued cardboard packaging. Alternating between realism and abstraction, Moreira’s images pose these eternal questions; where did we come from, what came before us and who else is out there? The different media and surfaces, the number of themes and even the scale are all circumstantial, in the sense that it is your everyday life that determines the studio’s processes. The act of analysis has little space in the specific creative process, but, observing the artist’s works, it can be concluded that Moreira’s practice is a continuous commentary and staging of events related of events related to the human condition.
THE SAGAN
2022. Oil and collage on canvas. 137 x 164 cm.
7 Samurai
2022. Papier-mâché, oil paint and wood. 70 x 20 x 30 cm.
7 Samurai
2022. Papier-mâché, oil paint and wood. 70 x 20 x 30 cm.
7 Samurai
2022. Papier-mâché, oil paint and wood. 70 x 20 x 30 cm.
7 Samurai
2022. Papier-mâché, oil paint and wood. 70 x 20 x 30 cm.
7 Samurai
2022. Papier-mâché, oil paint and wood. 70 x 20 x 30 cm.
7 Samurai
2022. Papier-mâché, oil paint and wood. 70 x 20 x 30 cm.
7 Samurai
2022. Papier-mâché, oil paint and wood. 70 x 20 x 30 cm.
PONY on display at Alzueta Gallery Turó Park.
LIGHT FIZZ SOCIETY
2022. Oil pastel on paper. 71 x 62 cm.
ICE SKATING
2022. Oil pastel on paper. 71 x 62 cm.
?
2022. Oil pastel on paper. 71 x 62 cm.
THE KIDS CALL HIM JIMMY, THE SAINT
2022. Oil pastel on paper. 71 x 62 cm.
THE MORON BROTHERS
2022. Oil pastel on paper. 71 x 62 cm.
AT HOME
2022. Oil pastel on paper. 71 x 62 cm.
SOLD
THE SNIPERS ARE PASSED OUT IN THE BUSHES AGAIN
2022. Oil pastel on paper. 71 x 62 cm.
RUDIE CAN’T FALL
2022. Oil pastel on paper. 71 x 62 cm.
PARKLIFE
2022. Oil, oil stick and collage on cotton. 175 x 190 cm.
SOLD
”Ring ring 7am.
I get up when I want
except on Wednesdays.
Drinking brew for breakfast.
And look at the time,
almost beer-thirty.
Sick boy, Renton,
Apollo, Dionysus,
and the evil Doctor Eggman.
I can’t remember anything.
The real deal one trick pony.
Things in my pockets,
tricks up my sleeve.
Cosmos, the pale blue dot,
Toshirō Mifune.
The fourth wise man, the fifth beatle,
The night of Santiago.
Francisco Mendes Moreira
Black Captain, pony express.
Blue bayou. Paris, Texas.
Harry Dean Stanton.
1991 Seat Toledo
Homemade road movie.
Riding with hunchbacked children and humpback whales.
Another way to be mean.
Mean
Chico
not Steve McQueen.
Larry Bird.
Kublai Khan.
Francesco Petrarca.
Doo-wop in Harlem.
Pony goes to town.”
MAKE WORRY FOR ME
2022. Oil on plywood. 122 x 166 cm.
COME VISIT KANSAS FOR A WEEK OF DEBAUCHERY
2022. Oil and oil stick on canvas. 77 x 69 cm.
THE TRAIN
2022.
Papier-mâché, oil paint and wood. 55 x 7 x 63 cm.
THE ANGEL
2022. Oil, oil stick and collage on canvas. 172 x 144 cm.
CC
2022. Oil on canvas. 134 x 182 cm.