Paulo Lobo’s production is carried out under a precise work program. The main
The link between his projects is time. There is a slowness in it that is typical of painting.

The pictorial act shifts towards history, the grandeur of myths and the depth of memory in an arc between psychoanalysis and philosophy. Painting is an anatomical fact that Lobo converts into facts of nature such as storms and gales. Through these meteorological allusions, the artist inflicts the ravages of time on the painted canvases: exposed to the open air for long months – they will be subjected to the inclement sun, copious rains and winds.

What’s left after months are tatters, tears, traces of faded colors, the affliction of seeing.