Ângelo de Sousa

Mozambique, 1938 – Portugal, 2011

Ângelo de Sousa was born in Lourenço Marques in 1938. In 1962, he completed the course of Painting at the School of Fine Arts of Porto. Between 1967 and 1968 he attended the St. Martin’s School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art, in London. During this period he became interested in the potential of film and photography. His approach to different media – painting, drawing, engraving, sculpture, film and photography – was always experimental and dictated by the dynamics and results of the work process itself. The economy of means and forms, as well as the experimentation on variations within series, are characteristics of the work of Ângelo de Sousa. In his painting, elementariness is visible in the use of only black, white and the three primary colors. This principle of his program is explained by the artist: “a maximum of effect with a minimum of resources”.