BIOGRAPHY
A Milan and Lisbon based artist, Vasco Grilo has been developing his skills in collage, graphic design, painting and algorithmic art for the past few years. Originally from Lisbon and with an international professional background and career in Engineering and Business Management, Vasco is able to blend his technical skills with his passion for traditional painting, photography and the human anatomy, in order to bring about art pieces which pick up from a multitude of mediums and styles.
Most recently, Vasco has been using artificial intelligence tools and mixed media, as a means to tell stories which explore the depths of human consciousness, the nature of relationships and the way we look at and interpret the human body and movement. Visually, he is predominantly influenced by the Surrealist and Dada movements, contemporary painting, 80’s and 90’s european comics artists and the great photographers of the XX century.
CV
ARTOXIC, collective exhibition, MADSGALLERY, MILAN ITALY March 2023
Recently featured as a selected artist by Saatchi Art´s chief curator and regularly sells his pieces through Saatchi´s virtual gallery.
Vasco is preparing two solo exhibitions (collage and Digital design) in Lisbon for the second half of 2023. To be announced.
Engineering Degree – IST Lisbon
Masters in Manufacturing Engineering Systems – Lehigh University, USA
Master in Business Administration (MBA) – Bocconi Univ. Milan ITALY and CIEBS Shanghai CHINA
STATEMENT
Often I feel so overloaded with information, data, images and the detritus of everyday life. Sometimes I would want to pause, isolate what’s happening, and dive deep into what it all means. At other times I’m superficially observant as it all washes past me knowing there’s no way to grasp and comprehend any of it, yet admiring the flashing spectacle of it all. I think I’m finally getting to a place where I can actually let go. Let go of the feeling I need to understand or get everything. Letting go of many of the material and emotional bits and pieces I’ve been attached to like a lifeboat for so many years. Letting go of it all and just “be” in the most basic sense.
All I do know is that through my artistic freedom I can “be”.
“Be” myself in the present moment.
And you know, the present is all we get.
