Matriz - Oeiras, Portugal - Figurative Public Sculpture on Waymarking.com

Matriz is a work by the Portuguese artist Rogério Timóteo.

The sculpture made with stone and iron represents a human being inside a breaking column. Like a bird coming out of an egg. It can simply represent the indexation of the human being in one of the many matrixes existing in today´s highway of information of, the rebirth of the human being (in Spanish language the matriz/matrix is the same as the female uterus).
In many his works Rogério uses the human figure with geometric figures and the contrast between the black and the white.

Rogério Timóteo is a Portuguese Sculptor. He was born in 1967 in Sintra where he lives and works. He has participated in 23 individual exhibitions and more than 100 colective exhibitions. He has works in private collections in Portugal, Switzerland, France, Germany, USA, England, Poland, Canada and Spain. His public artwork can be seen mostly in Portugal.
More about Rogério Timóteo here: (visit link)

Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Matriz Figure Type: Human Artist Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Rogério Timóteo Date created or placed or use 'Unknown' if not known: 2005 Materials used: Stone and Metal Location: Alto de Carnaxide (Roundabout near Norauto)

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