Your preferred theme is the city. You also participate in events of urban art. This aspect of your work, is because you feel more comfortable in this environment? It is easier to illustrate than nature? Is that it?
VT: I create a lot of what goes on around me, if a live in the countryside, possibly I would make interventions in trees that would have taken days or draw many birds. (Laughs) The urban art come by chance, the "boom" of graffiti street art has helped me to enter more easily in this area. I must admit I like the challenge of creating in large scale and have a wider audience than just the person who asks me for the illustration.
You love to caricature public figures, which one is your favorite and why? What was the challenge behind this piece?
VT: It happens only twice, at the request of my old school (ar.co) and for Dock magazine (Luis de Camões) and the centenary of the birth of Beatriz Costa. I prefer to create new characters than "replicate them."
From all your works, which one was left short of what can you do?
VT: Oh ... so many, is the problem with being perfectionist. I guess I can always do better. I will not speak of one in particular, because although they may have been more elaborate, are part of my evolution and growth as an artist.
You have a remarkable preference for female faces, why? The men's faces and bodies, in artistic terms are less attractive? Is that it?
VT: Many of my works are pieces of my life, including self-portraits and emotional outbursts, assuming also that the woman is always something more interesting to draw. "Girls rule, boys drule"! (Laughs)
Recently, you did an auction of your works, explains what was behind this initiative? What led you to this? Too much work at home, or just to give you more visibility as an artist?
VT: Yes, I made a small auction on my facebook page. I left the studio where I worked and went to work for home. I had no idea of the amount of work that I had at home. So you can say it was a mix of "I need space at home" and sell parts at prices more sympathetic this time of "crisis" in which it is increasingly impossible to invest in art. (And not worth going to IKEA to buy those printed portraits)
You rule in the illustration. Ever wanted to use other artistic media, or other materials, paper maché, for example?
VT: Not wanting to seem modest, but I'm still a child in the world of illustration, it may seem that, maybe because I focus too much on the Portuguese market in this area that still has much to grow. But returning to the question, I want to spread my "dolls" for the largest possible number of supporters. I'm preparing a project where I implement my designs to a new and different support, but more I cannot reveal.
When and where you have your work displayed in the future? And what is the theme of the show?
VT: After the last show I did in the Bairro Alto with Eastpak, I realized that either I adapt myself to a more "fast food" market that invests little, but wants much, or I'll have to expose outside of Portugal. Unfortunately there is still no recovery, an investment in unique pieces of the author. Just the other day they asked me a budget for a piece that eventually did not go forward because the response was "for that price I make a trip."There are other priorities ... Or am I knocking on the wrong doors! Next Expo: Berlin!
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