Jo?do Carmo's paintings

"... In its painting it can "be read" its poetry, as well as in this it is given ?to see? its chromatic wealth, being both inseparable, as a verse and a reverse of a medal, two halves of one same orange, or the phases of the moon, constituting a perfect symbiosis between the word and trace. Word that unites with the trace in the titles that gave to the displayed workmanships and that they are after all excerpts poems of the artist, truly like sphinxes relatively to the workmanship, allowing the personal interpretation of the "reader".
The works in exhibition presents a very rich imagistic universality of aesthetic and conceptual unit, it shows and gives us an introspective boarding of pictorial and poetical atmospheres. Colour and depth, space and perspective, light and shade allow them to enter in these persistent multifaceted scenic spaces in the provocation and the unquiet state with that we penetrate them."


Manuela Rodrigues
in Artes e Artes, 2004