Martinho Dias was born in 1968 in Sto. Tirso. He currently lives in Trofa, where he has a studio.
He has a master's degree in Fine Arts – Painting, from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto.
It is not possible to remain indifferent to Martinho Dias' painting. He captures your gaze, if nothing else because of the unusual break of formal environments he offers us. The dissonant element [...] introduces a caricatural and political dimension that arouses an interpretive gaze. And those who see must reflect, even if art, as Freud intended, may be incomprehensible and enigmatic. Martinho Dias asks us for the effort of reason to give in to the delight of the eye.
And it is not difficult. Through the tension that the faces convey, through the vigorous and markedly gestural smudge, through the light and the contrast of colours and through the irony, certainly, sometimes caricatural and satirical.
To remain indifferent to Martinho Dias' painting is to remain in disquiet and ambiguity. And we men, using the scalpel of explanatory reason, tend towards what is comfortable and right. The question is whether we get there.
António Tavares (Writer)
Martinho Dias: interview by Rui Beja for “Virtual Educa 2021”
Galeria O Rastro, Virtual Educa
Stella Jurgen interviews Martinho Dias
CAMÕES TV, Toronto – “Stella’s Studio”
a production of MDC Media Group. Hosted and produced by artist Stella Jurgen
www.camoestv.com | All rights reserved.
The Liberty Leading the People - after Delacroix
© Martinho Dias 2021
PENAS | Martinho Dias
Centro Cultural e Congressos Caldas da Rainha
Martinho Dias, 2020
PENAS
Centro Cultural e Congressos Caldas da Rainha
Martinho Dias, 2020
Maternity Leave
Martinho Dias, 2019
Modern Times 1: Building a Lie
Speed painting 700%
Martinho Dias, 2018
Brief history of a portrait
Martinho Dias, 2018
A CORJA Casa das Artes de VN Famalicão
journalist: Inês Reis / N’AGENDA / Porto Canal, 2017
Martinho Dias | artist in the municipality, 2017
by Paulo Lima, with Edgar Ferreira collaboration
Martinho Dias: interv by Valter Hugo Mãe
Valter Hugo Mãe / Porto Canal, 2015
Martinho Dias @ coARTco
coARTco, 2015
Inside the Studio with Saatchi Art
Martinho Dias, 2015
Painting Realities from reality
interview: Cátia Veloso / image and edition: Ana Assunção / Trofa TV, 2012
Quinta da Torre: in progress
Martinho Dias, 2011
LAURA
Martinho Dias, 2009
The last iron.
Martinho Dias, 2008