Fotografia 2010 #11 (2010) Photography by Alberto Simões De Almeida

Training:

# New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

--- In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting

--- Art modern & Ideas

# Universidade Aberta de Lisboa

--- Postgraduate in Multimedia Educational Communication; 

--- Training in "Semiotics of visual representations"

# National Society of Fine Arts, in Lisbon

--- Course of Painting; e

--- Course “Aesthetic Themes and Theories of Contemporary Art”

Biography:

My first contact with art was in the History subject, at the age of 14/15, when studying the Assyrian, Greek and Roman civilizations. The sight of sculptures from these civilizations and especially a photograph of “The Victory of Samothrace” had a profound impact on me.

But I always felt like an observer, being active in organizing exhibitions of plastic arts, particularly those of my partner , Ana Cassiano.

In 1999, I decided to attend a theoretical course “Aesthetic Themes and Theories of Contemporary Art”, whose professor Dr. David Lopes awakened in me the need to create, to do. Over the next three years, I took the Painting Course, but I wasn't satisfied with painting, and I started seeing sculptors and making things!...

I'm a late artist. I've always had to combine professional activity with artistic activity, but I've been walking, and I'm still walking!

Profile:

I think art should be considered for itself, painting should be “painting”, sculpture must be “sculpting”, in line with the goals of New York School abstract expressionism. Deliberating in advance what I will do, I think, would be restricting my freedom to create from the beginning, limiting the infinite capacity to surprise ourselves.

Many of my projects have a common denominator that I fully accept because these movements synthesized my thinking : I'm talking about Suprematism, Constructivism, Minimalism, Abstract Expressionism.

• Nationality: PORTUGAL
• Date of birth : 1952
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Portuguese Artists