João Fazenda, Bruno Humberto & Philippe Lenzini

In the morning, Elias, the duck, and Rex, the dinosaur, are running in the street for different reasons: the duck is late and the dinosaur is chasing a rabbit to scare him. They run so fast that they don’t notice one another and collide with a considerable bang while turning a corner. No one gets hurt, and they carry on with their lives. After that clash, however, everything will be different that day. They’re both going to realise that things aren’t always what they seem after all, that sometimes you have to go somewhere else in order to better understand what surrounds you, and that certain problems can be solved by singing with one voice. — João Fazenda  


João Fazenda was born in 1979, in Lisbon. He studied Graphic Arts at António Arroio and graduated in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon (FBAUL). His work is divided between illustration, animation, comics, painting and drawing. He regularly works as an illustrator for publications such as Visão, The New York Times, The New Yorker, among others. He has participated in several collective and individual exhibitions all over the world, he teaches Illustration at FBAUL and has received numerous national and international awards. He has illustrated many children's books, poetry books, plays, movie posters and record covers. In 2018, LU.CA already dedicated a programmatic cycle to him that had, as a starting point, his 2014 show, Retrato Falado.