ricardo angélico

RICARDO ANGÉLICO
THE ARONBURG MYSTERY
Painting / Drawing
Opening on November 12nd, 9:30 pm
Ends on December 31st
CARLOS CARVALHO ARTE CONTEMPORÂNEA
Rua Joly Braga Santos, Lte F R/C
1600 - 123 LISBOA
TLF(+351) 217 261 831
FAX(+351) 217 210 874
www.carloscarvalho-ac.com
[email protected]
Ricardo Angélico subject of work is to analyse the identity of the images thought a process that
expropriates images from their contexts in order to develop new languages. His latest series, “The
Aronburg Mystery” reveals the obsession with the American writer Henry Darger that created a
fifteen thousand pages story, telling about the disappearance of a little girl (Elsie Paroubeck / Annie
Aronburg) which inspires a horrific battle between Christians and misbelievers. The composition of
Angélico’s art works follows the Darger technique in copying images from magazines and putting
them in different contexts organized in war sceneries or cinema maquettes.
Ricardo Angélico was born in Angola in 1973 and works and lives in Póvoa de Varzim. He
graduated in Painting by the Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade do Porto. About his solo
exhibitions we have to distinguish The Aronburg Mystery (Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea,
Lisbon, 2008) Novas espécies alimentares (Gallery Ara, Lisbon, 2001), O Museu de Cera –
imagens da colecção Christian D. Karloff, (Fundação D. Luís I, Cascais, 2003) and Caro Jünger/
Caro Nabokov (Museu Nacional de História Natural – Sala do Veado, Lisbon, 2004). His most
noteworthy group shows include V Prémio Fidelidade Jovens Pintores − Culturgest, Lisbon, 1998
and his attendance at ARCO, ARTELISBOA and ARTESANTANDER. He is represented in many
public collection such as Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Lisbon, Fundação D. Luís I, Cascais,
Fundação PLMJ, Lisbon.