ARTIST STATEMENT
Hello. I hope you are welcome to my place here in PCC.
I’m artist, illustrator and collagist based in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
I start my work with photography first at university and then later my interest evaluated to video and video art. Then I specialized in animation and motion graphics. And just after all of that I turned out my view to collage, which was a love at the first sight.
My art references and study are Picasso, Magritte, Grete Stern, Hanna Hock, William Kentridge, Sigmar Poke, Raoul Hassman.
In these days Eduardo Recife, Emannuel Polanco, David Carson and Isabel Herguera.
In my site you can find some of my artworks, some commissioned work, one short movie I made about my childhood and some ultrashortmovies, that are 30s animation films about different themes.
I think collage can open the doors of your subjectivity to surrealistics words, dreams, colors and characters which live inside your mind. Long life to the art of collage.
ARTIST BIO
José Sampaio is a visual artist and art director based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Since 2017, using a.k.a Insumo_Collage has been standing out as an illustrator and collagist developing illustration, collage, design and motion graphics works from authorial language.
He has published several papers in Brazilian journals such as Folha de São Paulo and in international journals such as the Portuguese publication A Bica.