RIGO 23
VOL. 1
Centro Das Artes Casa Das Mudas, 2008

7.75 x 11"
152 pages
offset printed in full color throughout.
Texts in English and Portugese.

This catalogue documents the exhibition "Jam Sessions Rigo 84-23 / Peoes e Passadeiras (Pedestrians and Pedestrial crossings). Curated by Ricardo Gouveia, the show was held at The Fine Arts Department Casa das Mudas Arts Centre in Madeira, Portugal.

Great design by Philadelphia-based art book designers Purtill Family Business. Essays by Manray Hsu, Eungie Joo, Mark Beasley, and Luis Guilherme de Nobrega.

Rigo 23, muralist, painter, and political artist, was born as Ricardo Gouveia on the Portuguese island of Madeira. He established himself as an artist in San Francisco, earning a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 1991 and an MFA from Stanford University in 1997. He is known particularly in the San Francisco community for having painted a number of "one way" sign murals, such as the "One Tree" mural on the US-101 onramp at 10th and Bryant Streets. He is one of the founding members of Clarion Alley Mural Project collective. (Bio borrowed from Wikipedia.)

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