Artist: Gil Heitor Cortesão
Title: Upside Down
Year: 2022
Medium: Oil on plexiglass
Dimensions: 200 × 210 cm

Upside Down, 2022

Courtesy of CARBON12

Gil Heitor Cortesão

Having studied at FBAUL, Lisbon and Licenciatura em Artes Plasticas, Pintura, Cortesão's largely Europe-based exhibitions display his realistic painting technique of architecture, both interiors and exteriors, which exude a tone of melancholy stillness, as though abandoned, but not forgotten. Cortesão disrupts the illusion with explorative paint splatters and surface manipulation of his paintings on plexiglass. He has exhibited in several institutions including CAM Centro de Arte Moderna and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and is part of the permanent collections of the ARCO Foundation (Madrid), MUDAM (Luxemburg) and Fundacion Pedro Barrie de la Maza (A Coruna), amongst many others.

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A.R.M. Holding Art Collection

A.R.M. Holding is the first corporate patron of the Dubai Collection, the first institutional art collection in the emirate held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum and created to document the history of the city and narrate its cultural identity. Art and creativity are unrivaled in their power of bringing people together and eliciting national pride, and through its patronage A.R.M. Holding stands behind artistic expression in all its forms and aims to further Dubai’s standing as a leading global centre for culture and creativity.