MARTINHO COSTA
Portugal
Martinho Costa (b. 1977) lives and works in Lisbon, where he graduated in fine arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon. He would then go to Madrid, where he would complete his Master's degree in Theory and Practice of Contemporary Plastic Arts.
His painting work is spread across multiple supports, ranging from studio painting on canvas, to the production of single-edition painting books, as well as pictorial interventions in outdoor space.
These varied supports on which he has been multiplying his artistic practice, have in common the use of previous images that serve as models for his painting. It is a process of transforming motifs that surround us, from a point of view that considers an investigation of the broad history of art, trying to update the major themes and genres that shape the dense tradition of painting.
