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| Francisco Vidal - RAR Collection - 2009
Francisco Vidal focuses upon RAR’s employees, in an indiscriminate fashion in relation to their importance or status within the company. The wide array of portraits produced in a short, but extremely intense, period of time, conjure up a reality that would not normally be associated to oil painting. The works seem to draw closer to the world of a photographic session, i.e. mechanical capturing of reality. Nonetheless the artist succeeds in capturing the physiognomic complexity of his subjects using such basic and semi-instantaneous devices. (Miguel von Hafe Pérez)
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| Mafalda Santos - RAR Collection - 2008
We frequently encounter situations in Mafalda Santos' work that conjure up perceptive digressions, wherein the confluence between artistic disciplines and conceptual assumptions finds a unique intersection.
Instead of restricting herself to established forms of expression - such as painting and sculpture - the artist has championed site-specific interventions, where the exhibition space itself becomes the backdrop for more or less ephemeral works. (Miguel von Hafe Pérez)
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| Carla Filipe - RAR Collection - 2007
Carla Filipe is one of the most singular artists in Portugal's currente artistic panorama. Far removed from conveniente formalism that unashamedly runs through a significant portion of contemporary creation, she has developed an activity anchored in drawing - where her visually and conceptually robust projects are underpinned by various types of reminiscences.
Although Carla Filipe also works directly with three-dimensional works space, her most familiar terrain, as state above, is drawing - which she mixes together with writing in a kind of uninterrupted stream of consciousness. (Miguel von Hafe Pérez)
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| André Cepeda - RAR Collection - 2006
Invited to propose an original look of the universe of the entrepreneurial group RAR, André Cepeda has given us a look which sculpts shapes and manipulates light in a surgical fashion, redeeming, in his photos, banality from its ephemeral contingency, to make it significant in the flow of the small perceptions of everyday life. (Miguel von Hafe Pérez)
Born in Coimbra in 1976, André Cepeda is represented in several collections in Portugal and Brussels.
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| Carlos Correia - RAR Collection - 2005
The paintings that Carlos Correia has made of RAR's world in 2005 refer us to a paradoxically undefined point in their configuration. They are images denuded of time, where the conflict between the real and the effectivelly represented is diluted in compositions that intelligently shun the anecdotal to find a strange monumentality in the simple and banal. (Miguel von Hafe Pérez)
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| João Pedro Vale - RAR Collection - 2004
João Pedro Vale presents us his “RAR World”. A work that combines two concepts and two times: the self construction process, and the final work. In the process, the artist documents the way in which he makes use of elements taken from RAR Group companies to make buildings, ships and lorries. In the second phase, the construction, the artist crystallizes his vision in models representing urban complexes such as an airport or a sea port. (Miguel von Hafe Pérez)
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Filipa César - RAR Collection - 2003
In 2003, it was the turn of Filipa César to scrutinise RAR through her camera, producing specifically for this project a work that was transformed into a video.
The young artist who has prosecuted her career abroad, presented in her work titled RAR Work, a sequence of images of numerous workplaces associated with RAR, in an “admirable choreography of images and sounds that extract from the plasticity of the movements captured and the meticulous choice of the views, an absolutely incredible power of seduction of the senses". (Miguel von Hafe Pérez).
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| Arlindo Silva - RAR Collection - 2002
The young artist Arlindo Silva accepted the challenge he was set and created his “interpretation” of the Group in the 2002 Annual Report in small oil paintings, in a series called “holding” – “... objects that one desires to touch and handle, i.e. to see the persuasive power of managing to create a breach between that which is represented, which could be a miniscule sugar cube or the infinity of a sky crossed by a plane, and its unexpected accomplishment.” (Miguel von Hafe Pérez).
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| Nuno Cera -RAR Collection - 2001
In 2001 Nuno Cera was the chosen artist “as part of the group of young artists who have been responsible for transforming photography in Portugal” (Miguel von Hafe Pérez).
Through the pages of the 2001 Annual Report Nuno Cera brings alive fragments of the reality that escapes our day-to-day lives through his images.
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| Baltazar Torres - RAR Collection - 2000
In 2000 Baltazar Torres – currently one of Portugal’s most exciting artists – created a set of works which unites elements taken from the business world, fragments of which were integrated into the Report and Accounts – some of which are still ongoing projects.
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| José Maçãs de Carvalho - RAR Collection - 1999
At the start of the Project (1999) José Maçãs de Carvalho created, through the printing of images captured on video, a series of works of an almost abstract dimension, which take us to a world where factors such as the attention to detail, the precision and the thoroughness of RAR, are clearly illustrated.
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