Rui Carvalho winds explore the spontaneity and the calmness of adverse situations. The idea is to keep a fresh mind in the middle of a gale, a storm. To exorcise the demons who do not like paper. To cultivate creativity thru graphics inspired by their daily lives, the memories of lost youth, but not forgotten. From the man. The artist.
The exhibition "winds" is crowded with characters who symbolize what?
Rui Carvalho: Were chosen at random, has a certain symbolism. It was the spontaneity of the subject, when I drew was a phase, not a very good one, each day I was picking up a theme through the newspaper, I had to disentangle because the work had to be done, sometimes the inspiration didn't came so I had to draw pictures and motivations of the day to day to spent during that hour.
Was inspired by news that you have read?
CR: Those characters that are virtually pulled out of my imagination and also had models that did not draw like that. I used my creativity, through the model. For example, the base was a picture of the reality I imagined something else.
So what is this world?
RC: It's an underground world based on comics. The basis is that, the eighties, but it's a graphic work. I turned the comic book of which I was a fan into a graphical statement.
Who were the authors who inspired you?
RC: All. One of the authors I met in Lisbon was the Joao Santos Afonso and still other personalities who follow on the same line, for example, Rigo, but by then they were not only in Europe, I met people who did the same.
Are references for this work then ...
RC: There are influences. We are of the same generation, I am currently 46 years at the time I was twenty-five years and had an interaction between all brutal.
Why now are you pursuing this issue of youth and transpose it to the exhibition?
RC: This was just for this exhibition, but I do other classical things. I remember forever. It's my way of working. It was in the soul, I like to work well. I can change it from one moment to another. Was recorded in my soul.
I notice that it is a very dark palette.
RC: It has to do with the phase in which the artist is. It may be less good. I had to work and have to be done; sometimes depression forwards me to the dark colors. When we are happier and life is more or less well, colors return.
The inner demons are printed on the canvas is that?
RC: I do not believe in demons, they are outsiders. They leave and not come over any more. Demons need meat, skin. Do not like paper that's an absolute certainty. They Flee. They like metal. Money. (Laughs).
