Carlos Barão Exhibition
“Covers and Narratives”

“…the paintings of Carlos Barão attempt - by means of collages, spontaneous or more controlled brushstrokes, the juxtaposition of different elements, the apparently wild flings at the canvas, the rough stroke – to elevate the common objects to the memories and feelings that each of us internalise […] his works are, on the one hand, familiar narratives in the sense that we recognise the objects and stories they represent, but, on the other, strange in the sense that each spectator and the own nature of the paintings complicate the access to the memory they try to evoke: to feel something strangely familiar.”

“Algo estranhamente familiar II” in text by Hugo Dinís, 2009, Catalogue of Carlos Barão