During his residency, Francisco Tropa did research on
medical newspapers and magazines to collect medical-related
advertising. The material was used for a screen print edition titled
Les Poumons et le coeur, which was the latest part of his
project La Moustache cachée dans la barbe. 'The result is a
"world" very much his own, nourished by diverse sources including a
rigorously antihierarchical array of references, figures from the
ancient and modern worlds, science and magic' (Guillaume Désanges).
Francisco Tropa (b. 1968, Lisbon, Portugal) lives and works in
Lisbon. 'Portuguese artist Francisco Tropa is the author of a
complex body of work, freely combining a broad range of techniques,
from the most basic skills to virtuoso tours de force. Mixing art
and technical ingenuity, Tropa’s creative vision embraces prototypes
and machines, but also paintings, screen prints, photography and
performance' (Guillaume Désanges). Tropa not only creates objects,
but he also elaborates the specific constellations of reference in
which they are ideally read. His complex practice, which includes
sculpture, performance, photography, drawing, and print making, is
thoroughly grounded in the history of media he uses, ancient art,
philosophy and literature, as well as classical themes such as the
memento mori, ritual, gambling, and time. Not so much a practitioner
of the contemporary, he is an artist more oriented toward quiddities
and origins. He therefore seeks to understand and represent the
timeless and essential qualities of art, of what makes art what it
is. Sculpture has been a permanent interest in the artistic practice
of Francisco Tropa, who works since the beginning of the 90s and has
gained a significant attention by institutions and the critique.
Representing Portugal in the Venice Biennale (2011), he also
participated in Istanbul Biennial (2011), Manifesta (2000),
Melbourne Biennial (1999) and Bienal de São Paulo (1998).
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