Gil Heitor Cortesão
Portugal
Gil Heitor Cortesão (Lisbon, 1967) lives and works in Lisbon. He studied Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon.
The artist reverses the traditional painting process, applying oil paint to one side of Plexiglass panels and opting to display the unpainted side. Often using photographs from various sources as his base material—many related to 1950s, 60s, or 70s modernist architecture and design—he deconstructs contours and surfaces, creating new situations and unexpected associations. Much of his recent work focuses on exploring liminal spaces—thresholds, borders, transitions.
Selected collections: the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the PLMJ Foundation, EDP (Lisbon); Fundación ARCO (Madrid); the Serralves Foundation Collection (Porto); António Cachola Collection (Elvas); Museé d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean - Mudam (Luxembourg).
The artist reverses the traditional painting process, applying oil paint to one side of Plexiglass panels and opting to display the unpainted side. Often using photographs from various sources as his base material—many related to 1950s, 60s, or 70s modernist architecture and design—he deconstructs contours and surfaces, creating new situations and unexpected associations. Much of his recent work focuses on exploring liminal spaces—thresholds, borders, transitions.
Selected collections: the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the PLMJ Foundation, EDP (Lisbon); Fundación ARCO (Madrid); the Serralves Foundation Collection (Porto); António Cachola Collection (Elvas); Museé d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean - Mudam (Luxembourg).
