Tiago Mestre
Biography
Lake with small figures, 2021
'My work really happens in the show. There's always a spatial aspect that brings several works together, creating a discourse.'
Tiago Mestre's (Portugal, 1978) practice evolves around the idea of displacement, both in terms of discipline and territory. Originally trained as an architect, his sculptures and installations reflect his status as a Portuguese artist living and working in Brazil, as well as, the historical associations of human and artistic flows between both countries.
His work actively resists a singular reading and engages with different symbolic and anthropological registers. Ceramics as sculpture appears in his practice with this aim of displacement, causing a process of redefinition and reframing of its mediums. Using materials such as clay, bronze, plaster, and paint, he establishes a constant negotiation between project and unpredictability. His paintings and sculptures share technical procedures (on production) and modes of display (on reception), presenting themselves more as questioning systems than as fixed genres or statutes. Most recently, his work focuses on the ability to relate critically with the achievements of the project of modernity, its controversial key figures, and its artistic myths and narratives of originality, development, and social organization. Tiago Mestre currently lives and works in Brazil.
Works
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Park , 2022 -
Factory, 2022
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Jewel, 2022
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Plantation, 2022
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BP II, 2022
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Garden, 2022
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SP VIII, 2022
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SP VI, 2022
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SP I, 2022
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SP X, 2022
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SP XI, 2022
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SP XII, 2022
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SP XIV, 2022
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SP XV, 2022
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Untitled, 2022
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Lake, 2021
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Fado, drama, 2021
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Theatre, 2021
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The voodoo you do, 2021
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Sculpture. Banana tree in disguise, 2021
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Tropical Frieze, 2021
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Lake with small figures, 2021
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Lake shaped mirror, 2021
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Lake , 2020
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Soft Parade
Installation shots
Exhibitions
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Sun, Sun, Sun! by Tiago Mestre
26 Apr - 4 Jun 2023LAMB Gallery is pleased to present the second solo UK exhibition by Portuguese artist Tiago Mestre. The exhibition is comprised of ten new oil on canvas paintings exploring the rich pictorial associations of the Sun throughout human history.Read more -
Still Life / Still Living
Group exhibition featuring: Pippa El-Kadhi Brown, Alma Berrow, Clara Hastrup, Marina Woisky, Maria Livman, Bruno Moutinho, Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, Anderson Borba, Alexandre da Cunha, Fernando Marques Penteado and Tiago Mestre. 25 Mar - 1 Apr 2023LAMB Gallery and PALMA are pleased to present "Still Life/Still Living," an exhibition that invites viewers to witness an unconventional gathering of sculptures seated around a table, as if they were dinner guests.Read more
The sculptures on display have been created by various artists from diverse cultural and aesthetic backgrounds, yet they share a common space in the exhibition, engaging in unexpected and intriguing conversations. Each piece is carefully placed around or near the table to create a harmonious yet unpredictable arrangement, much like the interactions between real-life dinner guests.
By creating this dynamic living environment, the exhibition explores the concept of still life in contemporary art, pushing beyond our traditional perceptions of the genre, which typically feature inanimate objects arranged in a static composition.
Featuring emerging artists Pippa El-Kadhi Brown (b. 1996), Alma Berrow (b.1992) Clara Hastrup (b.1990), Marina Woisky (b. 1997), Maria Livman and Bruno Moutinho as well as established artists Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato (1900 - 1995), Anderson Borba (b. 1972), Alexandre da Cunha, (b. 1969) Fernando Marques Penteado (b. 1955) and Tiago Mestre (b. 1975), the exhibition reflects LAMB Gallery’s ethos to encourage and develop curatorial dialogues between multi-generational artists from Latin America and Britain. -
'Empire' by Tiago Mestre
14 Apr - 21 May 2022Empire is Tiago Mestre's first solo show at LAMB. The artist invites us to scrutinise how certain socio-cultural forms express social and ideological values; the way in which signs and...Read more
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