Biography
Living and working in London, Nuno Reis – Artist, educator, researcher- was born in Portugal in the early 1970’s where he lived up to the age of 18. He moved to London to peruse an artistic education.
Nuno Reis’s art needs to be dissected beyond its surface value and its initial impact as street art. Visual representations in Nuno Reis’s work are torn between two urban experiences that took place in two different periods in time and two different places. Nuno Reis’s work aims at representing his personal experiences of living in a city.
Palimpsests
It all started…
in the 1970’s
… with the depiction of the city and its dynamics. Living in an urban setting is represented by aggressive and dynamic marks and the reality of the city life. These drawings were created by Nuno Reis in the 1970’s in Porto (Portugal) to represent his reality.
later in London
…it’s pace; it’s ever changing landscape; it’s routines again are a source of inspiration. A similar reality in a difference space and time.
Advertisement posters that are ripped from the street walls, as the events they showcase are happening; revealing other realities underneath.
and now!
The outcomes are a juxtaposition of both realities. Developed using similar methods to the ones used by the passing of time - by wear and tear; by ripping and replacing; by layering, layer after layer- thus creating endless realities. They are created using the same methods as a child does, each line, each layer, each tear showing the emotion, the strength, the fragility that has created it.
