Alvarenga Marques

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Visual Stories with a pinch of exoticism and humor.
Intelligent and magical mix between a vigorous children's drawing and a structure of combined elementary images based on warm tones.






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"When I'm Bored, I Change Colour"

Alvarenga Marques
Family Tree   150x200cm Acrylic on canvas
Looking for a bigger splash  80x120cm Acrylic on MDF







Looking for a bigger splash


Humorous interpretation of David Hockney's painting 'Bigger Splash'.I tried to convey the spirit of summer and delicious hot days by the pool. The desirable season inviting people to swim and go crazy....
The Spoon   95x95cm  Acrylic on canvas



The Spoon  

 Artwork based on a poem by the Portuguese poet Gastão Cruz 'The spoon', about sweet childhood memories.






Trip Report
  
A journey through Africa, to the universe of my childhood memories.


Trip Report   110x110cm  Acrylic on canvas





Hope 


'Hope', symbolizes hope for the people of northern Mozambique in the fight against the jihadist insurgency.
'Ekotto Nnaari' in the Makhuwa dialect means 'No War'!
In this painting, a Makhuva woman from the province of Cabo Delgado is wearing a scarf as in the painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Johannes Vermeer. Her face is covered with 'Mussiro', a traditional beauty cream also used as an ornament.
She smiles hopefully next to her noble friend, the dog.

                           Hope  90x120cm Acrylic on MDF


#FADO

Fado is a Portuguese musical genre, very traditional that assuming the representation of fate as inevitable, poetic and tragic destiny,  a history that is told, feels, and sings. I expressed  this idea with some visual elements merged in a recipe rather bizarre.

The Douro river in the background, with typical boats carrying barrels of Porto wine gives a poetic atmosphere, which overlaps a guitar, the singer Amalia Rodrigues and the figure of Karo man with painted face. We can read lyrics excerpts from fado's Amália in the background, and on the whole set, scrawls symbolizing written musical notes by naive way. 




#FADO   100x100 cm    Mixed nedia on canvas
Oldest Times   100x100 cm    Mixed nedia on canvas
Buy my Bananas 112x145 cm Mixed nedia on canvas










Buy my Bananas 

Ironic portrait of a society of contrasts extremely unfair. A parallel is made between the soccer star in the media figure of Cristiano Ronaldo and the African child .
The wealth and popularity of the former as opposed to the latter, an anonymous, poor child with only a rags ball and that one day dreams becoming a football star... 

Rachel   30x40cm  Mixed media on canvas

Tilda 30x40cm Mixed media on canvas

Twiggy 30x40cm Mixed media on canvas
A casita   130x97cm    Acrylic on canvas  
Birds   100x73   Acrylic on canvas
Faded Flower  65x54 cm  Acrylic on canvas
Corn Dolls 65x65 cm  Mixed media on canvas 
BB & Friends 81x65  Mixed media on canvas 
Miss Fortune  65x65 cm  Mixed media on canvas 
By air mail   100x100cm   Mm on canvas
DreamWorld  100x135   Mm on canvas
Ring my bell   110x110cm   Mm on canvas
Maria Remixed   100x150cm Mm on canvas
Knocking heaven's door 148x97cm  Mm on canvas
The Gift 80x80cm  Mm on canvas
Parallel Lines 85x85cm  Mm on canvas
Facial Landscapes  (180x180)cm  Mm on canvas
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Facial Landscapes 
This work intends to represents an unchangeable memory which belongs to several people.
Different images materialize a divergent reminiscence among them that is close to the remembrance which represents, also characterized by this childlike drawing.
Descriptions as a backdrop, symbolize at the same time both the onlooker and the object in a sort of a transference game"

This polyptych consists in four canvas with (90:90)cm.
Regrets revisited 110x150cm  Mm on canvas
Painted vinyl records / Limited Edition of 5
Painted vinyl records / Limited Edition of 5
Painted vinyl records / Limited Edition of 5
Painted vinyl records / Limited Edition of 5

OUT SOLD         originals to collectors all over the world  | Prints available

Voodoo Child 100x100cm
 Frida without Hummingbird  116x89cm
Fetish 120x80cm
Rigatonni All'Americana 81x65cm
All we need is love 30x30cm

Lady with Kitten  89x116cm

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