João Onofre's works are tributes to art history and pop. He gleans what is in danger of being
lost right now realigns it and translates it into something sublime. His art encourages the
beholders to reconsider a past that has faded in collective memory with a critical eye and make
peace with it. His creative process is guided by the material and a clearly defined concept
that nonetheless does not restrict a work's finding its own way. That is why he does not commit
to a particular medium making videos performances installations and much more. What all his
works have in common is that they probe the limitations of their medium and our perceptive
capacities in novel ways. This catalogue presents three recent works in which the essence of
Onofre's art becomes manifest: he molds myths and symbols into awe-inspiring images sounds
and forms-not for nothing have critics labeled him an alchemist. In the catalogue his tangible
compressions of cultural history are rendered in imposing pictures and flanked by an ambitious
essay that places them in their context.
