“The newspaper with its layers of pages, stories and variety of printed colours form the basis for my work. I used to say that the newspaper itself is my work, the process of layering the paper makes reliefs, shapes and tonalities with pictorial effects that create surreal atmosphere. The figures suddenly emerge from the contrast created by the many layers of paper. This is my way to tell the stories of everyday life and its subtleties. I love the urban atmosphere and the street is the perfect setting; the visual pollution, the dust on the buildings, the sky with its faded colours, the advertisements, the battered walls of the building’s gaps and holes revealing different layers of faded colours, all of these represent the many different layers of everyday life.”
~ Jose Adriano Lopes

“The newspaper with its layers of pages, stories and variety of printed colours form the basis for my work. I used to say that the newspaper itself is my work, the process of layering the paper makes reliefs, shapes and tonalities with pictorial effects that create surreal atmosphere. The figures suddenly emerge from the contrast created by the many layers of paper. This is my way to tell the stories of everyday life and its subtleties. I love the urban atmosphere and the street is the perfect setting; the visual pollution, the dust on the buildings, the sky with its faded colours, the advertisements, the battered walls of the building’s gaps and holes revealing different layers of faded colours, all of these represent the many different layers of everyday life.”
~ Jose Adriano Lopes