André Lemos Pinto

André Lemos Pinto (Porto, 1976) is graduated in Communication and Graphic Design by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. Apart from his artistic work, André is also a designer and a teacher.
The work of André Lemos Pinto is influenced by several artists such a...

André Lemos Pinto (Porto, 1976) is graduated in Communication and Graphic Design by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. Apart from his artistic work, André is also a designer and a teacher.
The work of André Lemos Pinto is influenced by several artists such as Mapplethorpe, Koons, Beuys, Matta, Bellmer, Brus, Sarmento and Emin; but also by writers such as Baudelaire and Anaïs Nin.
Technically, André’s work mixes influences from photography, drawing and the plastic informality from the 1940’s, acknowledge by works’ textured backgrounds. Expressively, his artistic language sets the realm for a transformation, a path from the observed reality to the unknown, a fluid and elusive surface that "only is visible with the eyes wide closed" (O. Redon) – this is the tissue that dreams are made.
André exhibits regularly national and international, since 2000, and his work is represented on several private collections in Portugal, Spain, Croatia, Luxembourg and USA.