Madragoa at Liste Art Fair Basel 2022

Madragoa at Liste Art Fair Basel 2022 | Booth 59

Gonçalo Preto and Jaime Welsh

13.06. - 19.06.2022

Madragoa is delighted to present a dialogue between the works of Gonçalo Preto (b. 1991, Lisbon) and Jaime Welsh (b. 1994, Lisbon) at Liste Art Fair Basel, in booth 59.

What immediately strikes from Goncalo Preto’s production it’s how his sophisticated pictorial technique is applied to the creation of images that are often embedded with a tense atmosphere, as parts of disconnected narratives that compose the whole visual world of the artist. Since his second solo show, Middle Finger Pedestrians, presented at Madragoa in November 2019, the artist started a new series of paintings originated by the interest in the representation of dim environments, focusing on the portrayal of different light sources and on how the observer's eye adapts to the blackness of the different represented scenes. His most recent works show a development in this research about vision where the artist plays with our vision and its reaction to light, focus, proximity, abstraction and situations that seem to belong to everybody’s lost memories.

Gonçalo Preto was born in Lisbon, in 1991 and he lives and works in Lisbon. Solo and two-persons exhibitions include: Untitled, with Santiago Reyes Villaveces, Ncontemporary Project Room, Milan (2020); Middle Finger Pedestrians, Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon (2019); LIMBO, Museu Carlos Machado, Ponta Delgada, Azores (2019); FRAG-MEN-TO, MADRAGOA ENCIMA, Madragoa; Lisbon (2017). Recent group exhibitions include: CABINET, Museu Nacional de História Natural e Ciência, Lisbon (2019); Active Synthesis, Forum Arte Braga, Braga (2019); There will never be a door. You are inside, Collection Teixeira de Freitas, Fundación Santander, Madrid (2019); COLA CUSPO, Espaço AZ, Lisbon (2018); Nome do Meio, Moradia, Lisbon (2018) Approx, Madragoa at Sadie Coles HQ, The Shop, London (2018), SEVER, Galeria Boavista, Lisbon (2017); Blue, The Switch Gallery, Lisbon (2016); Babel, Miguel Justino Contemporary Art, Lisbon (2016); 4, Cidadela Art District, Cascais (2015).

Gonçalo Preto

Espadachim do Guetto

2022

oil on wood

130 x 97 cm

unique

Gonçalo Preto

Blood oranges

2021

oil on wood

30 x 30 cm

unique

Gonçalo Preto

Variation of a sunset I

2022

oil and wax on canvas

160 x 120 cm

unique

Gonçalo Preto

Variation of a sunset II

2022

oil and wax on canvas

160 x 120 cm

unique

Gonçalo Preto

Variation of a sunset III

2022

oil and wax on canvas

160 x 120 cm

unique

Gonçalo Preto

Twinkle Twinkle

2022

oil on wood

73 x 54 cm

unique

Gonçalo Preto

Oma

2022

oil on dibond

14,5 x 10 cm

unique

Gonçalo Preto

At dusk

2022

oil on wood

29 x 41 cm

unique

Gonçalo Preto

Pike's Peak

2021

oil on canvas

160 x 160 cm

unique

Jaime Welsh’s highly-constructed photographs – often of clinical, official interiors – depict figures in architectural space as allegories for anxious or tense psychological ones. His project is the formal relationship between humans and architectural space and the evocation of psychological interiority through photography. Welsh offers us clues that might contain meanings towards a resolved understanding of the scenes, but they may also be red herrings or formal props to tell both a precise yet ambiguous tale. Welsh’s images seem to exist outside of our reality. But they’re rooted in relatable ideas of alienation, loneliness, and longing.

Jaime Welsh was born in 1994 in Lisbon, Portugal and he lives and works in London. Recent exhibitions include For Laura, Madragoa, Lisbon (2021); Embora, Madragoa, Rome (2021); London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London (2020); The Ambassador’s Suite, Piccadilly Lights, curated by Circa Art, London (2020); Homework, Madragoa, with the support of the Portuguese Embassy in London (2020); Hope this finds you well, Gallery 46 Whitechapel, London (2019); Sonic Youth, curated by Filipa Oliveira, Galeria Municipal de Arte de Almada, Almada (2019). His work has been published in Frieze Magazine and in 2018 he participated in Tate Exchange at Tate Modern, London. In 2021 he was the recipient of the Gulbenkian Foundation Scholarship while completing his MFA at Goldsmiths, University of London.