Rogério Guimarães
PORTUGAL
Engineer/ Artist
Born in 1972. Although trained in Electric Engineering, he always had a certain inclination for art as a way to perceive the world. After many years ignoring his longlife skill for drawing, he assumes in 2005 that art in the form of graphic expression must have a more important role in his life. He begins searching training in this area and after several informal trainings and courses he achieves the Masters Degree in Artistic Creation at the Department of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro. Within the scope of the work for his dissertation for the Masters Degree he makes a brief passage by the Slade School of Fine Art in London where he enriches and consolidates some aspects of his artistic expression. In the following year he’s part of a artistic residence in Kaunas, Lithuania, within the scope of the Creart european programme. In 2019, the passion for more immediate forms of narrative makes him ingress in the Clube do Desenho, Porto, and iniciates also experimentations in mimeography and risography. Since he has assumed that art entered his life that he tries to conciliate his profession as engineer with the experimentations in drawing and graphic expression.