Vasco Araujo: artist blog

Vasco Araujo, an artist whose work I have just discovered, was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1975. He schooled at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (FBAUL), and graduated with a degree in sculpture in 1999. A year later, he went through an advanced course in Fine-Art at Maumaus, School of Fine Arts and Photography, which is also located in Lisbon. Of his pieces, he created a set called “All that fall” in 2009, which are currently at the Galeria Filomena Soares. Below are three of the images that I react to the most.



These pieces are pieces that remind me of a struggle, difficulty, or obstruction of mental or psychological understanding within himself. These pieces strike me hard, as if they speak to a defeat or a giving up of one side of a personal battle. To me, it represents the physical and expressed side giving up and letting the inner side take over, leaving the actual physical action and persona as dead, limp, or immobile. I feel that I cannot express this because my internal clash has been set up that neither side wants to win, but both sides are at battle for prominence. One has to be alive to keep the other alive. It’s a little like the batman analogy: if there was no joker, there would be no need for batman. However, in Vasco’s work, one side has clearly over dominated the other, leaving the physical one as the loser, and leaving it weak and dead. This work is absolutely amazing in my opinion, and love the feeling it gives me when I look at it.

http://www.artnet.com/artist/424625363/vasco-arajo.html