Creative Macau

Center for Creative Industries

Visual Arts

Rodrigo de Matos

Award-winning editorial cartoonist from Portugal.  Collaborates with the weekly newspaper “Expresso” (Portugal) since 2006. Moved to Macau in 2009 and now also makes cartoons for the “Macau Daily Times” and “Ponto Final”. Won the Press Cartoon Europe 2014, in Belgium.

Exhibitions

“21st Century” 21st Anniversary Members Collective Exhibition

27th August — 28th September, 2024

Opening: 27 August (Tue) 18:00 – 20:00   Art has been categorized into different periods, styles, and doctrines over the past few centuries, such as the Renaissance, Baroque style, Pop Art, Contemporary Art, and so on. These distinct artistic movements emerged in response to the social phenomena of their respective times. The origins of art […]

OPEN CLOSE OPEN – 18th Anniversary Collective Exhibition

28th August — 30th September, 2021

Reflecting on these two atypical years, we proposed to the members an emotional catharsis that would creatively express the ups and downs of their own feelings. Each work presented will transmit personal feelings experienced, either real or metaphorical with the dilemma of Open – Close – Open, inside/outside of themselves. OPEN CLOSE OPEN inspired 33 […]

OUR FAMILY – 16th Anniversary Collective Exhibition

28th August — 21st September, 2019

The Collective Exhibition will be held in Creative Macau starting from 28 August to 21 September, 2019. 29 members create a structure of the “family” as an artistic project; and compose a family portrait through the real and, or, within imaginary conception. From the abstraction to the substantial, we have been naming themes for our […]

Punacotheca

22nd March — 17th April, 2018

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Punacotheca Also called paronomasia, the pun is a form of wordplay that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. Recognizing in this process a potential to create ambiguous and bizarre – sometimes ludicrous – images, Rodrigo breaks down the barriers of the […]

“Here & Now” 13th anniversary members exhibition

27th August — 30th September, 2016

Adalberto Tenreiro, Alexandre Marreiros, Armelle de L, Chan Un Man, Cristina Vinhas, Duarte Esmeriz, DWG, Elói Scarva, Fernando Simões, Francisco Ricarte, Ho Si Man, João Miguel Barros, Lai Sio Kit, Laura Che, Li Li, Lúcia Lemos, Madalena Fonseca, Marina Carvalho, Mavin Zin, Noah Ng, Ohi, Rodrigo de Matos, Rusty Fox, Sofia Bobone, Tang Kuok Hou […]