Joana Cagido

Joana Cagido was born on December 6, 1979, in Lisbon. Very early, even at 13, she began painting so self-taught figurative oil paintings, already aware that this would be her shed - art, something that ended up being reinforced in a Catholic school Restelo, which had enough influence on your personality. However, before diving into the world of screens, Joana also studied psychology for two years. As a result, more certain of its objectives, she attended Ricardo Espirito Santo Silva Foundation,…See all

Joana Cagido was born on December 6, 1979, in Lisbon. Very early, even at 13, she began painting so self-taught figurative oil paintings, already aware that this would be her shed - art, something that ended up being reinforced in a Catholic school Restelo, which had enough influence on your personality. However, before diving into the world of screens, Joana also studied psychology for two years. As a result, more certain of its objectives, she attended Ricardo Espirito Santo Silva Foundation, the course of Interior Architecture having had contact with the history of art, mostly drawing and painting. Having then spent some time in Venice to look for inspiration where curiously came to be interested in American painters such as Pollack, Max Ernest, and Dutch, if de Kooning and the Abstract Expressionism, shed that went on to develop and try new techniques. Combining geometric and random traces of "automatic painting", a heavy, coarse impasto of overlapping pigments, Joan breaks with easel painting and elects to support the wall or floor, which provides a stiff resistance to work the four sides, through the literally be "on" or "inside" the painting. Through instinctive gestures, where chance and random determine the evolution of painting, Joan explores preferably tactile qualities and the sensory effects of color, producing abstract paintings with few elements, but with undefined boundaries and chromatic relationships of great subtlety.See less