artists - Roberto Chichorro

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Roberto Chichorro was born in 1941 in Lourenço Marques. He devoted himself to painting expressing the magic of the old stories he was hearing, related to magical worlds of wonders, terrors, and witchcraft, but also animals, music and laughter. Chichorro constantly paint his boy memories and do it with a very colorful palette where parodied Chagall`s funds opening the look to the intensity of a magical world, almost weightless, floating. He worked as designer and as a decorator hall for international fairs in Mozambique. He scenery for shows and illustrated several books. From 1982/85 had a scholarship from Spanish Government in Madrid for ceramics work (with Taller Blue) and zincography (with Oscar Manezzi). In 1986 had a scholarship from Portuguese Government, living in Portugal since then and devoting himself exclusively to painting.