MACRO

The hall on the second floor of the MACRO, which was recently renovated and is connected to the new wing of the museum, is dedicated to the Portuguese artist João Louro. A world where nothing is as it seems, a universe in which vision short-circuits with language and create original expressive works of art.
One of the halls of the Museum houses My Dark Places, a solo exhibition of the Portuguese artist João Louro (Lisbon, 1963), curated by Luca Massimo Barbero. The exhibition space showcases new works – part of the series Blind Images – created especially for the exhibition. A selection of works closely linked together, inspired by the seemingly unrelated concepts of “fear” and “pleasure” and by literary references to James Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia and the works of the Marquis de Sade.
The formal minimalism and the chromatic purity of the large monochromes contrast ironically with the quotes at the bottom of the work, which are similar to captions or subtitles. The observer does not find a simple explanation or description in these texts, but new suggestions which open the mind and the senses to different and distant worlds, full of philosophical and literary quotations.