ANDRÉ ROCHA. Illustrator
12/01/2016.
Ink and some colour
metalocus, ANDREA PORTILLO.
metalocus, ANDREA PORTILLO.
Today we explore the imagination of the artist and architect André Rocha who, with his detailed hand drawings flows between the real and the sureal.
The Old Refinary I. Image © André Rocha.
The Old Refinary II. Image © André Rocha.
Tower Bridge. Image © André Rocha.
Tanguy II. Image © André Rocha.
Sion. Image © André Rocha.
Gothic Gravitation. Image © André Rocha.
Travelling Cities. Image © André Rocha.
Transparent City. Image © André Rocha.
Barragán Utopia. Image © André Rocha.
Black Holes. Image © André Rocha.
The Space Cube. Image © André Rocha.
City Cube. Image © André Rocha.
Tanguy I. Image © André Rocha.
André Rocha is a Portuguese artist with a great passion for drawing real or imagined cities. His work reflects both his career as an architect as his fascination for the surreal, his portfolio is basically a great collection of cityscapes and imaginary urban environments drawn with all the detail that the format allows him. The works of Andre Rocha create tensions between ultra-compact and large empty spaces. The balance between these two characteristics have been the basis of his most recent work.
The artworks by Andre Rocha are swinging between the real and the surreal, harmonize textures, urban environments, creating a world that wishes to be alive. His work is represented in private collections in countries like Portugal, Italy, UK, Australia and United States.
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André ROCHA
André Rocha is a Portuguese artist and architect with a passion for drawing cities, real or imagined. He graduated in 2005 by the Departament of Architecture of the University of Coimbra with a final thesis on the Theme: “Cinemas de Portugal -evolução arquitectónica em Portugal”. He then took an Internship with the architect José Fernando Gonçalves, with whom he still collaborated until 2008. While still working on the field of Architecture, he updates his blogues about drawing, cartooning and urbanism regularly and this resulted on the colaboration for the making of the opening of the TV show: “Público Imobiliário”, a RTPN/Jornal Público partnership as well as on the selection of two of his cartoons for the “X PortoCartoon” under the Theme: “Human Rights”. His artwork is represented in private colections in countries like Portugal, Australia, UK and United States. He currently lives in Ponte de Lima where he founded the André Rocha A+D+I.
