João Paulo Feliciano's new exhibition presents works produced over the last five years, reflecting a creative intensity brought about by his return to Caldas da Rainha.

The more than twenty works on display embody the enormous diversity and breadth of languages that characterise Feliciano's work. While we recognise the presence of aspects that date back to the beginning of his production, such as the return to painting, we are also confronted with new dimensions, namely the use of figurative painting.

A common feature in almost all the pieces is the way in which the artist starts from pre-existing elements — found objects, industrial materials, images, or even references to the work of other artists — to construct works using unorthodox combinations of materials, techniques and languages: gouache, bleach, charcoal, watercolour, acrylic, decal, aluminium, glass, cardboard, wood, PVC, plastic, canvas, iron, magnets; drawing, collage, painting, sculpture, photography, abstraction and representation.

With this approach, Feliciano claims for art a kind of redemptive function, capable of rescuing and organising the infinite diversity of forms, objects and systems of the contemporary world. Transforming chaos into order, insignificance into relevance, ugliness into beauty.