Saatchi’s Showdown and more specifically their on-line network can be a true gold mine when looking for new talent and the good thing about this kind of on-line contests is the unveiled potential, like the art of Joao Trindade…
A Portuguese now living in London whose tissued paintings remind us of some of the asphyxiating atmospheres Tsutomu Nihei used for his Blame characters. Organic-mechanic … very punk in the end.
![untitled](http://s3.amazonaws.com/saatchi/89091-2017752-7.jpg)
Joao “fabricates dreams”, exorcisises his own ghosts experimenting “the unbalance, the discontinuity, the rupture, the contrast, the sensorialand also to represent universes and an escape from the centre: giving paintings different and endless perspectives”.
![untitled2](http://s3.amazonaws.com/saatchi/89091-6489899-7.jpg)
His creative process:
“I take hundreds of photos of everything I grab from the outside world, rummaging through images until I find the right one for a particular work. Besides canvas sometimes my materials are what I can collect, usually whatever has been dumped or disposed, recycling it into art and trying to make the ugly, beautiful”.
![the city](http://s3.amazonaws.com/saatchi/89091-2017883-7.jpg)
and the rest of his chaotic anguishing but amazing paintings? On his on-line profile. Enjoy.