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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!


Profile:

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.

Discover contemporary artworks by Alberto Simões De Almeida, browse recent artworks and buy online. Categories: contemporary portuguese artists. Artistic domains: Sculpture, Photography. Account type: Artist , member since 2010 (Country of origin Portugal). Buy Alberto Simões De Almeida's latest works on Artmajeur: Discover great art by contemporary artist Alberto Simões De Almeida. Browse artworks, buy original art or high end prints.

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PRECHAOTIC (2020-2021) • 7 artworks

Sem ideia preconcebida, recolhi os barrotes retirados de um telhado em remodelação e depositados num[...]
Sem ideia preconcebida, recolhi os barrotes retirados de um telhado em remodelação e depositados num contentor de lixo de construção civil. Os barrotes permaneceram 3 ou 4 anos no meu atelier.
Este ano peguei neles e, em absoluta liberdade criativa, fui arquitectando jogos geométricos e tentando equilíbrios possíveis dessas massas corpóreas que à partida tinha decidido que na vista frontal nunca assumiriam a verticalidade.
Fui fazendo cortes e experimentando várias conjugações, deixando a decisão para o dia seguinte. E as peças deste projecto sem título foram brotando até a minha autoanálise as considerar esteticamente equilibradas.
Na escultura deixei marcas do passado, de tinta ou de rasgões, como cicatrizes de uma história do inerte, do inanimado. Os objectos também têm história!
O acabamento foi feito com 3 camadas de vioxene e 3 camadas de verniz.
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Há um mundo em hecatombe, está instalado o estado pré-caótico, vivemos um tempo de mudança em que nada ficará como antes, novas perspectivas se alinham no próximo horizonte, as dúvidas da exequibilidade do actual status quo são cada vez maiores, as mudanças climatéricas estão a provocar situações inéditas, provavelmente estaremos a viver o fim de uma era de progresso económico e social - todas estas premissas intervieram subconscientemente neste meu projecto.
Há um passo que daremos, mas não sabemos ainda que terreno pisaremos!
Sculpture titled "Prechaotic #7" by Alberto Simões De Almeida, Original Artwork, Wood
Prechaotic #7 - Sculpture, 15.8x13.4 in ©2021 by Alberto Simões De Almeida -
"Prechaotic #7"

Sculpture - Wood | 15.8x13.4 in

$2,268.53
Sculpture titled "Prechaotic #4" by Alberto Simões De Almeida, Original Artwork, Wood
Prechaotic #4 - Sculpture, 28.4x21.3 in ©2020 by Alberto Simões De Almeida -
"Prechaotic #4"

Sculpture - Wood | 28.4x21.3 in

$2,964.27
Sculpture titled "Prechaotic #1" by Alberto Simões De Almeida, Original Artwork, Wood
Prechaotic #1 - Sculpture, 29.9x17.3 in ©2020 by Alberto Simões De Almeida - sculpture, wood, abstract, geometric
"Prechaotic #1"

Sculpture - Wood | 29.9x17.3 in

$2,088.32
Sculpture titled "Prechaotic #5" by Alberto Simões De Almeida, Original Artwork, Wood
Prechaotic #5 - Sculpture, 33.5x20.5 in ©2020 by Alberto Simões De Almeida -
"Prechaotic #5"

Sculpture - Wood | 33.5x20.5 in

$2,407.24
Sculpture titled "Prechaotic #2" by Alberto Simões De Almeida, Original Artwork, Wood
Prechaotic #2 - Sculpture, 39.8x21.7 in ©2020 by Alberto Simões De Almeida - sculpture, wood, abstract, geometric
"Prechaotic #2"

Sculpture - Wood | 39.8x21.7 in

$1,857.86
Sculpture titled "Prechaotic #6" by Alberto Simões De Almeida, Original Artwork, Wood
Prechaotic #6 - Sculpture, 81.5x54.7 in ©2020 by Alberto Simões De Almeida -
"Prechaotic #6"

Sculpture - Wood | 81.5x54.7 in

$15,932.15
Sculpture titled "Prechaotic #3" by Alberto Simões De Almeida, Original Artwork, Wood
Prechaotic #3 - Sculpture, 25.6x31.1 in ©2020 by Alberto Simões De Almeida - sculpture, wood, abstract, geometric
"Prechaotic #3"

Sculpture - Wood | 25.6x31.1 in

$2,792.8
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