Ângelo de Sousa

Ângelo de Sousa was born in Mozambique, in 1938.
He studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, having graduated with an average of 20, thus joining the group of the “Four Twenties” (all of them graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto with an average of 20). Avant-garde artist, experimentalist and minimal, Ângelo de Sousa used throughout his long and fruitful career different techniques and media: drawing, painting (refuses frames, studies the light and experiments different techniques), sculpture, photography, film, video and set design. The critics consider him very creative and impulsive. His work demonstrates a strong coherence, despite the constant changes.

In painting, some authors associated him to Mondrian, even though Ângelo de Sousa himself declares to be influenced by Expressionism. The artistic arguments never affected him. By choice, he has always remained on the sidelines of the neorealist controversies and of the debates about figuration and abstraction. On the contrary, he drifted to other reflexions motivated by the frequently shown interest in oriental engraving, the primitive and exotic arts and Art Brut, Expressionism, artists like Klee and Kandinsky and in movements like Colour Field, Post Painterly Abstraction, Op and Pop Art.
He also dedicated to investigating and developing innovative techniques and to teaching at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto.
Ângelo de Sousa died on March 29th 2011, in Oporto where he lived most of his life.