Rorig Mirtos is a self-taught artist working primarily in sculpture and painting. This debut exhibition presents intricate wire sculptures that explore a fundamental tension within the human condition: fragility and strength. The work invites viewers to look beyond the surface and experience the unstable balance between damnation and salvation that permeates human existence. Humanoid figures emerge as both familiar and fantastical, beautiful and grotesque, like beings suspended between opposing existential states. Through their distorted anatomies, Mirtos articulates what often remains unspoken: the coexistence of contradictory forces within each individual and the ongoing struggle to reconcile them. The interwoven complexity of the wire creates a visual density that mirrors this psychological opacity and ambiguity. These artworks offer no resolution, but an honest confrontation with the tensions that define us.
* Vernissage – 20th May – 18h *
• • • Events of the week • • •
FRI (20) / 18 – 23 / Vernissage Damnation / Salvation
SAT (21) / 17 – 18 / Drink & Draw
SEG (23) / 18 – 20 / Exhibition
TER (24) / 18 – 19 / What did We see? TER (24) / 18 – 23 / Prisma Electro Jam Session & Finissage
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Rorig Mirtos is a self taught artist whose background formation is Humanities. He is mostly inspired by what is generally known as “dark art”. Following the themes of the genre, in 2018 he started experimenting with acrylics. However, it was only after being confronted with his mental illness, in January 2021, that he found the medium he his more comfortable with – steel wire. Paintings were replaced by sculptures but the same gloomy themes of the human condition remained: anhedonia, insignificance, fear, fragility, pain, solitude and death. The damnation of his illness was at the same time a need to create beautiful things. As more and more sculptures came about, he started to see art as path to salvation, from depression to the light, from his inner world to artworld where others could also appreciate his creations. Representing the duality of Damnation / Salvation is precisely what this debut show aims at.
photos by @ricardoalvesphoto
poster by Catarina Aguiar
