Rigo 23
Rigo 23 , actually Ricardo Gouveia , (* 1966 in Funchal , Madeira , Portugal ) is a Portuguese artist. He is considered one of the most important contemporary artists from Portugal.
Life
He has lived in the United States since the 1980s and studied art at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) and Stanford University between 1991 and 1997. In San Francisco he was an early member of the Mission School artist movement in the 1990s and later became a lecturer at the San Francisco Art Institute.
His real name is Ricardo Gouveia. The artist name goes back to his youth and a combination of numbers from 1983 to 2003.
Rigo 23 lives in Los Angeles .
Art and work
His art mainly includes murals, installations and painting. With his art he also exercises strong social criticism , for example of the exploitation of indigenous people, capitalism and neoliberalism .
The Black Panthers , the Zapatistas , the Guaraní, and the American Indian Movement are groups that worked with the political artist.
Rigo works of art can be found in museums in Lisbon , Porto , Berkeley and Los Angeles.
Together with the Brazilian Ayrson Heráclito , he had the joint exhibition “Entre Terra e Mar - Transatlantic Art” at the Weltkulturen Museum , Frankfurt am Main , October 2017 to August 2018.
Group exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- Madeira 2010.
- Los Angeles, 2012
- Washington, DC 2016
- Lisbon 2017.
- Sharjah , as well as in Auckland , Jerusalem , Lyon , Liverpool .
swell
- Catalog of the exhibition on “Entre terra e mar - Transatlantic Art”, Museum der Weltkulturen, 2017, p. 235.
- http://www.sfai.edu/bios/rigo-231
- http://www.folkestonetriennial.org.uk/artist/rigo
Individual evidence
- ↑ Exhibition information , accessed on September 12, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rigo 23 |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gouveia, Ricardo (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese visual artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Funchal in Madeira , Portugal |