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Alberto Simões De Almeida

Lisboa, Portugal
Artist (Sculpture, Photography)
Born 1952

Formation:

In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA)

Modern art & Ideas, at MoMA

Postgraduate degree in Multimedia Educational Communication, at Universidade Aberta, in Lisbon; this postgraduate course included training in "Semiotics of visual representations"

Painting course, at the National Society of Fine Arts, in Lisbon

Course “Themes of Aesthetics and Theories of Contemporary Art”, at the National Society of Fine Arts

Professionalization as a secondary school mathematics teacher, at Colégio S. João de Brito, in Lisbon

Degree in Electrotechnical Engineering, at Instituto Superior Técnico, in Lisbon.


Biography:

My first contact with art was in the discipline of History, at the age of 14/15, when studying the Assyrian, Greek and Roman civilizations. The sight of the sculptures of these civilizations and mainly of a photograph of “The victory of Samotrácia” marked me deeply.

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

In 1999, I decided to attend a theoretical course “Themes of Aesthetics and Theories of Contemporary Art”, whose professor Dr. David Lopes awoke in me the need to create, to do. For the next three years, I took the Painting Course, but, not satisfied with painting, I started seeing sculptors and doing things! ...

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


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I think that art should be considered by itself, painting should be "painting", sculpture should be "sculpting", in line with the objectives of the New York School's abstract expressionism. To decide in advance what I am going to do, I think it would be to restrict my freedom to create in the beginning, to limit the infinite capacity to be surprised.

Many of my projects have a common denominator that I fully assume because these movements synthesized my thinking: I am talking about suprematism, constructivism, minimalism, abstract expressionism.

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TERRITÓRIOS (2014-20) • 13 artworks

Defendendo a supremacia da pintura não figurativa sobre a pintura de imitação da natureza, Kazimir Malevitch[...]
Defendendo a supremacia da pintura não figurativa sobre a pintura de imitação da natureza, Kazimir Malevitch (1879-1935) introduziu, em 1913, um novo conceito que designou como “Suprematismo”, em que considerou ser primordial a abstracção geométrica baseada na pura não-objectividade, assumindo o artista a primazia da sensibilidade plástica pura, acima de toda a finalidade materialista. Em 1915, Malevitch expôs trinta e nove quadros em S. Petersburg, então Petrogrado, capital da Rússia; nas obras expostas, predominavam os quadrados e os rectângulos, as linhas e os círculos, e a cruz; utilizando uma reduzida paleta de cores, sempre saturadas, assumia uma representação não objectiva, desnudando os objectos de qualquer significação, defendendo que “a realidade em arte é o efeito sensitivo da cor”, atingindo assim “a superioridade absoluta da emoção pura”. No entanto, só em 1925, Malevitch fez a sistematização teórica do “Suprematismo”, através do manifesto “Do Cubismo ao Futurismo ao Suprematismo: o Novo Realismo na Pintura”, escrito em colaboração com o poeta Maiakóvski (1893-1930).

Em 1919, El Lissitzky (1890-1941) integra-se no movimento suprematista, tendo desenvolvido os projectos designados por “PROUN”, que descreveu como “uma estação a meio caminho entre a pintura e a arquitectura”, uma forma de arte em que fazia construções montadas sobre as superfícies das paredes, estabelecendo como objectivo essencial a libertação da arte de qualquer interpretação emocional da realidade, através do desenvolvimento de uma nova linguagem abstracta, baseada em elementos correlacionados, estruturas internas, energias e tensões espaciais.

Passados cerca de cem anos, a proposta ora apresentada por Alberto Simões de Almeida revive a concepção suprematista, jogando com os elementos geométricos elementares e com a precariedade de cores, quase sempre planas; trata-se de uma evocação, ora aproximando-se, ora afastando-se, dos trâmites que fundamentaram esse movimento. O ponto de partida foram os desenhos de El Lissitzky, reinterpretando-os, redimensionando-os a três dimensões, buscando a abstracção numa fuga constante a referentes, tentando anular significações, apesar de ser inevitável que qualquer observador possa fazer as suas próprias aproximações mentais à realidade.

As esculturas de Alberto Simões de Almeida são estruturas assimétricas, em que a presença de linhas de fuga introduz uma sensação dinâmica, por vezes bem explícita. À utilização das formas geométricas puras e absolutas características do “Suprematismo” (círculo, quadrado, rectângulo, triângulo e cruz), conjugadas de maneira independente ou combinada, acrescentou a elipse, forma geometricamente mais elaborada. Embora a paleta de cores utilizadas seja reduzida, o branco e o preto integram quase todos os trabalhos, com predomínio do preto no plano-base das esculturas de parede.
Sculpture titled "Território #33" by Alberto Simões De Almeida, Original Artwork, Wood Mounted on Wood Panel
Território #33 - Sculpture, 16.1x45.7 in ©2020 by Alberto Simões De Almeida - sculpture, wood, geometric, abstract
"Território #33"

Sculpture - Wood | 16.1x45.7 in

$3,461.88
Sculpture titled "Territorio #8" by Alberto Simões De Almeida, Original Artwork, Wood Mounted on Wood Panel
Territorio #8 - Sculpture, 20.1x81.1 in ©2016 by Alberto Simões De Almeida - Wood, Sculpture, Wood, Abstract, Geometric
"Territorio #8"

Sculpture - Wood | 20.1x81.1 in

$4,264.81
Sculpture titled "alberto simoes de a…" by Alberto Simões De Almeida, Original Artwork
alberto simoes de almeida_2_42x171x8_2015 - Sculpture, 3.9x24 in ©2015 by Alberto Simões De Almeida - Abstract, abstract-570, Wood, sculpture, wood, abstract, conceptual, minimalism, geometric
"alberto simoes de almeida_2_42x171x8_2015"

Sculpture | 3.9x24 in

$2,958.27
Sculpture titled "alberto simoes de a…" by Alberto Simões De Almeida, Original Artwork
alberto simoes de almeida_1_88x158x13_2015 - Sculpture, 5.1x34.7 in ©2015 by Alberto Simões De Almeida - Abstract, abstract-570, Wood, Escultura, Madeira, Abstracta, Conceptual, Minimalista
"alberto simoes de almeida_1_88x158x13_2015"

Sculpture | 5.1x34.7 in

Not For Sale
Sculpture titled "Território #33_deta…" by Alberto Simões De Almeida, Original Artwork, Wood Mounted on Wood Panel
Território #33_detalhe - Sculpture, 16.1x45.7 in ©2020 by Alberto Simões De Almeida - sculptura, wood, geometric, abstract
"Território #33_detalhe"

Sculpture - Wood | 16.1x45.7 in

$3,461.88
Sculpture titled "Território #8_detal…" by Alberto Simões De Almeida, Original Artwork, Wood Mounted on Wood Panel
Território #8_detalhe - Sculpture, 20.1x81.1 in ©2016 by Alberto Simões De Almeida - sculpture, wood, geometric, abstract
"Território #8_detalhe"

Sculpture - Wood | 20.1x81.1 in

$4,264.81
Sculpture titled "alberto simoes de a…" by Alberto Simões De Almeida, Original Artwork, Wood
alberto simoes de almeida_7_100x150x11_2015 - Sculpture, 39.4x59.1 in ©2015 by Alberto Simões De Almeida - Abstract, abstract-570, Wood, Abstract, Conceptual, Minimalism, Geometric, Wood
"alberto simoes de almeida_7_100x150x11_2015"

Sculpture - Wood | 39.4x59.1 in

$3,570.03
Sculpture titled "Território #9" by Alberto Simões De Almeida, Original Artwork, Wood
Território #9 - Sculpture, 47.2x82.7 in ©2018 by Alberto Simões De Almeida -
"Território #9"

Sculpture - Wood | 47.2x82.7 in

$5,046.98
Sculpture titled "Território #6" by Alberto Simões De Almeida, Original Artwork, Wood Mounted on Other rigid panel
Território #6 - Sculpture, 50x3.9 in ©2015 by Alberto Simões De Almeida - Abstract, abstract-570, Wood, Sculpture, Wood, Abstract, Geometric
"Território #6"

Sculpture - Wood | 50x3.9 in

Not For Sale
Sculpture titled "alberto simoes de a…" by Alberto Simões De Almeida, Original Artwork
alberto simoes de almeida_3_42x151x8_2015 - Sculpture, 3.2x16.5 in ©2015 by Alberto Simões De Almeida - Abstract, abstract-570, Wood, wood, sculpture, abstract, conceptual, geometric
"alberto simoes de almeida_3_42x151x8_2015"

Sculpture | 3.2x16.5 in

Sold
Sculpture titled "Território #10" by Alberto Simões De Almeida, Original Artwork, Wood
Território #10 - Sculpture, 78.7x7.5 in ©2018 by Alberto Simões De Almeida -
"Território #10"

Sculpture - Wood | 78.7x7.5 in

Not For Sale
Sculpture titled "alberto simoes de a…" by Alberto Simões De Almeida, Original Artwork, Wood Mounted on Wood Panel
alberto simoes de almeida_4_69x170x10_2015 - Sculpture, 66.9x27.2 in ©2015 by Alberto Simões De Almeida - Wood, Escultura, Madeira, Abstracta, Conceptual, Minimalista
"alberto simoes de almeida_4_69x170x10_2015"

Sculpture - Wood | 66.9x27.2 in

$3,046.76
Sculpture titled "alberto simoes de a…" by Alberto Simões De Almeida, Original Artwork
alberto simoes de almeida_5_59x156x13_2014 - Sculpture, 5.1x23.2 in ©2014 by Alberto Simões De Almeida - Abstract, abstract-570, Wood, Escultura, Madeira, Abstracta, Conceptual, Minimalista
"alberto simoes de almeida_5_59x156x13_2014"

Sculpture | 5.1x23.2 in

$2,975.75
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