"I want to think that there’s a energetic, invisible force that circulates around the world like a wave. And, that I have a special connection with it. Dont know the name. But I rather have that and say its guiding my hand than be considered crazy. Or, I am crazy and the drawings are just means to reconcile within myself."

- Daniel Gonçalves

Biography of the Artist

Daniel Gonçalves is a self-taught draughtsman and painter from Porto
(b.1977) with a deep genuine creative streak. This gift, combined with a
hyperactive personality, led him from an early age to understand the
world and to relate to it through his artistic expression, having
participated in the last decade in multiple collective exhibitions held in
Porto.

In the course of his experimentations searching for a personal style,
regardless of the multiplicity of techniques, he has always revealed a
particular attention for the games of shapes and colors.
Lately presents an obsessive black-and-white, materialized in geometric
abstract drawings, though spotted by organic elements: a repetitive
minimal aesthetic, more circular than linear.
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Solo Shows
2018 – Daniel Gonçalves – Selection of drawings, 57 bis Boulevard Rochechouart, Galerie Pol Lemétais, Paris.2016 – “2:22 – Drawings by Daniel Gonçalves”, Gallery Cruzes Canhoto, Porto, Portugal.
2015 – “Paintings by Daniel Gonçalves”, Museu Ovar, Ovar, Portugal.
2014 – “Color and Forms”, REM, Rapid Eye Movement, Porto; Portugal.
1999 – “ Introspection “, Amália Rodrigues Cultural Center, Gondomar;Portugal; “ ACTOS I” Porto, Portugal.

Group Shows
2019 - Henry Boxer Gallery Outsider Art Fair NYC.
2018 - "NOCTEM DIABOLI" (Devil's Night) at Stephen Romano Gallery NYC
2018 - "OPENING THE THIRD EYE" with Alexis Karl, Barry William Hale and Natsumi Goldfish at Stephen Romano Gallery NYC.
2018 – 26th Outsider Art Fair , Galerie Pol Lemétais, NYC, 2018;
Musée des Arts Buissonieres à Martigues, Martigues, France;
2017 – ST.ART, Contemporary Art Fair, Galerie Pol Lemetais, Strasbourg, France;
Outsider Art Fair Paris 2017, Galerie Pol Lemetais, France.
Coletiva “7 APART”, Gallery Cruzes Canhoto, Porto, Portugal. L’ADAP, Galerie Lemetais, Aveyron, France.
Musée des Arts Buissonniers, Bartas Festival, Les Noveaux Troubadours, Saint Sever du Moustier, France.
Salon Art Rodez, Galerie Pol Lemetais, Rodez, France.
Lausanne Art Fair – Contemporary Art Fair, Galerie Pol Lemetais, Lausanne, Switzerland.
“The Golden Ratio Laws”, Treger Saint Silvestre Art Collection, Oliva Creative Factory, São João da Madeira, Portugal.
“Vade Retro”, Gallery Cruzes Canhoto, Porto, Portugal.2016 – “Lagarto, Lagarto, Lagarto”, Gallery Cruzes Canhoto, Porto, Portugal.2014 – Christmas Group Show REM, REM, Porto; Summer Group Show, REM, Rapid Eye Movement, Porto, Portugal.

 

 

 

Detail of the exhibtion "OPENING THE THIRD EYE" curated by Stephen Romano for the Living Gallery, NYC.

left to right, Burt Shonberg, Masonic Banner, works by Daniel Gonçalves, Chalres Dellschau, Jacob Bohme, drawing by Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn.

Detail of the exhibtion "OPENING THE THIRD EYE" curated by Stephen Romano for the Living Gallery, NYC.

left to right, William Mortensen, Burt Shonberg, Masonic Banner, works by Daniel Gonçalves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drawing comissioned for the exhibtion "NO STARS - A Twin Peaks Tribute exhibtion" 2018 The Living Gallery,

curated by Stephen Romano