Céu FranCastro, was born in Viana do Castelo in 1967. Lives
and works in Porto, Portugal. Degree in Medicine from FMUP, 1991. Higher Course
in Forensic Medicine, 1993. Master in Sports Medicine from FMUP, 1999.
Neuroradiology Specialty, 2000. Undergraduate student of the 4th year of Fine
Arts at FBAUP in Porto, having attended workshops and training courses at
FBAUP.
2009 to 2014 - Pintura (Group Show) Coordenação: Afonso
Moreira, Exposição Anual, Atelier Arrisco, Porto
2009 - Pintura (Group Show) Coordenação: Pedro Ruiz, Fórum
da Maia
2009 to 2019 - Arte Médica (Group Show) Coordenação: OM,
Ordem dos Médicos_ Galeria, Porto
2011 - Arte na Leira (Group Show) Coordenação: Mário Rocha,
Casa do Marco, Arga de Baixo, Caminha
2012 – Pintura, com Ana Dias (Group Show) Coordenação e
participação, Galeria Magestic, Porto
2014 - Evasões Verde e Azul, Gallery Hostel, R. Miguel
Bombarda, Porto (Solo Show)
2014 – Re-Visitar, com Ana Dias, Coordenação e participação,
Ordem dos Médicos_Galeria, Porto (Group Show)
2019 – Urban Sketchers _ Drawing (Group Show) Coordenação:
Pedro Alegria, Museu Soares dos Reis, 24/4 a 19/5, Porto
2019 – UrbanSketchers_ Drawing, Teatro da Vilarinha, Maio,
Porto (Group Show)
2019 - International Congress on Contemporary European
Painting, 2ND Ed Membro da Organização_ FBAUP/i2ADS, Porto
2019 - Sandbox, colectiva de Atelier II, FBAUP, Porto (Group
Show) Membro da Organização _FBAUP
2020 - Da Sombra, Forum de Ermesinde (Group Show),
Coordenação: Domingos Loureiro, FBAUP / I2ADS
The natural landscape that serves as a reference is, almost always, a forest or places with liquid surfaces. The forest can continue to
resemble visually a real forest but, the elements that constitute it are archetypes, stylized ideas of real elements, abstractions organic.
Photography is ideal for landscape, in its subjective objectivity, does not select what notes, although it allows studies of composition and color. Photography can, without filters or manipulations post-processing, cancel the three-dimensionality of nature, giving it an appearance two-dimensional and almost abstract.
The composition is related to the referent, but it goes beyond it and even annuls it. The composition is a synthesis, to which information is added additional pictorial material. The result loses, in varying degrees, its figurative qualities up to the total abstraction.
The illusion, given by the dimension of the work, which tends to overcome the viewer, and the movement not defined
allow the subjective reading of the work as landscape, even in the total absence of references visuals including the horizon line, or before an abstraction, without figurative content.
Negative space is a present concept, but treated as presence and not as absence, it is filled with real matter even when it is virtual. The work lives on the unstable balance between peers of opposites: figurative and abstract; painting and sculpture; order and chaos; objective and subjective; spontaneous and deliberate, and in this sense also sensitive and rational.
