MaisMenos - Uma impressão de modalidade de Estado HC

Inspired by Salgueiro Maia’s famed line — “there are various modalities of State… the state we’ve reached” — this piece turns revolutionary rhetoric into visual critique. The original work was built from army pins sourced at the historic Casa Buttuller and featured in EGEAC’s “Artistas Plásticos – Lojas com História” storefront exhibition in Lisbon. This giclée (HC) preserves that intervention: crisp graphic execution, political irony, and the ±MAISMENOS lexicon.

The print is in good condition and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity stamped and signed by the artist. Responsible shipping. Card tube package with some goodies!

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Giclée print on paper, Natural White 270 g/m2 paper

Miguel Januário is a Portuguese artist born in 1981. He has a degree in Communication Design and is currently studying for a PhD in Design at FBAUP. He was a collaborator at the cultural intervention space Maus Hábitos and artistic director of Ivity Brand Corp. He is currently Head of Art for Sustainability at CEiiA. He is a member of the PCP. He is the author of '±MaisMenos±’, an intervention project that has become a national and international reference for urban art. He is represented by the Underdogs gallery in Lisbon. At the same time, he is the author of KissMyWalls, a project with a strong urban component related to graffiti, advertising, writing and intervention, which includes several artistic heteronyms – Caos, Mr. Death, Naif, among others – each with its own visual identity and aesthetics. He has exhibited and/or worked with internationally renowned artists such as Vhils, Shepard Fairey (Obey), Futura, Felipe Pantone, Barry Mcgee, Swoon, AddFuel, Wasted Rita, Icy and Sot, Bordalo II, Mosaik, Ram, Gonçalo Mar, Nomen, among many others.
He has been producing thought-provoking, cutting-edge work both indoors and outdoors in a variety of media – from video to sculptural installations, from painting to performance. Besides numerous illegal public art interventions in several countries, the project has also been showcased in solo and group exhibitions in various institutional contexts, including at Vera Cortês Gallery (Lisbon, 2010), MACE–Museum of Contemporary Art of Elvas (Elvas, 2011, 2014), Underdogs Gallery (Lisbon, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2021), Caixa Cultural (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Brasília, 2014), Museu do Côa (Vila Nova de Foz Côa, 2015), Graça Morais Center for Contemporary Art (Bragança, 2015), MUDE–Museum of Design and Fashion (Lisbon, 2016), José Malhoa Museum (Caldas da Rainha, 2016), MACRO–Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma (Rome, 2016), Wunderkammern Gallery (Rome, 2017), Celaya Brothers Gallery (Mexico City, 2018), Arco Lisboa (Lisbon, 2018), WTF Gallery (Bangkok, 2018), Interferências MAAT (Lisbon, 2022) and leading art festivals and events such as Walk&Talk Festival (São Miguel, Azores, 2011), Guimarães European Capital of Culture (Guimarães, 2012), La Tour Paris 13 (Paris, 2013), Wool Festival (2014), Esporo (Proença-a-Nova, 2022), Nuart Festival (Stavanger, 2014, 2017), TrashPlant Festival (Tenerife, 2018), Roskilde Festival (Roskilde, 2018), Forgotten Project (Rome, 2016), Iminente Festival (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022), Emergengy Iminente Festival (2020), Iminente Festival Rio de Janeiro (2019), Iminente Festival London (2017), Iminente Festival Marseille (2022), Alter Ego Macau (2018), Mulheres Saramaguianas with Centro Português de Serigrafia and Fundation José Saramago (2022), Esporo (2022), NEBFest Brussels (2022), Caceres Abierto (2023). ±MaisMenos± has also been the subject of two TED talks, at TEDxLuanda (Luanda, 2014) and TEDxPorto (Porto, 2015), and other public and academic lectures.