Artistic statement Ricardo Da Silva I am what I do and I do what I am and this is my formula for happiness. In my daily life I observe everything that surrounds me with great pleasure; techniques, materials, situations. With this acquired knowledge I try to to explore all possibilities by experimenting and mixing, subsequently trying to find ways to express myself without taking for granted that which influenced me, trying to appreciate the potential of the materials and means even more which in fact, motivate my creative pulse. As an artist, I work outside in; subsequently helping me be a better person for it. Every artistic project I start, my goal is to make it interact with the spectators, either directly or subtly. To make it provoke some kind of peruse, create a connection, a dialogue, an infinite array of vistas, just like when I’m producing and breaking away from mundane logic, transportation to another world, an imaginary world, where objects and workaday situations are put in a different perspective and discharge a myriad of abstractions. Along the past few years I have carried out artistic projects involving various techniques: painting, engraving, ceramics, facilities and artistic interventions as well as a myriad of materials. I do not identify myself as a one-material kinda man. I have a perpetual need to use, and sometimes mix, alternate techniques and materials in my creations to transmit what I designate but also to the fact that I create, spontaneously, constant dialogues with the techniques and materials that surround and seduce me. All this organic, informal complicity I have have in the the matter (the techniques and materials) eventually compose me as the overseer and the subject by virtue of the material that entice me. This, for me as an artist, is utterly interesting and aggrandising at a personal and artistic level. The most used materials are primarily sustainable, commonplace materials such as street signs, cards, plastic containers, clay, just to name a few. The focus of my work I try to foster positive values, the deconstruction and reconstruction of shapes, breaking down what you know about everyday objects, the fictional of the object, but also to revere the harmonious relationship between Man and Nature. Born: Porto, Portugal
Study:
Degree in Teachers of Basic Education, variant in Visual and Technological Education - School of Education of Porto, Polytechnic Institute of Port Master in Child Study, majoring in Information and Communication Technologies, in Child StudiesInstitute, University of Minho, Braga