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Hearts for difficult times, with Gustavo Luengo (ES) - Visual Arts
01 September to 30 November 2020
Synopsis: "My motivations are to make sculptures on the wall with heart shapes in different colors to symbolize what is truly important in life, more in these difficult times that we are living in. The heart is the most important. Love. Not iPhones and all the other things, which are also fine, but nothing compared to the heart and personal relationships. The idea comes from the works of the Austrian sculptor Franz West, already deceased, and his works, mainly in paper mache. "
01 September to 30 November 2020
Synopsis: "My motivations are to make sculptures on the wall with heart shapes in different colors to symbolize what is truly important in life, more in these difficult times that we are living in. The heart is the most important. Love. Not iPhones and all the other things, which are also fine, but nothing compared to the heart and personal relationships. The idea comes from the works of the Austrian sculptor Franz West, already deceased, and his works, mainly in paper mache. "
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Sofia Fortunato (PT) - Visual Arts
Bio: Born in Lisbon in 1978. She graduated in Business Communication in 2003 and in 2005 he did a post-graduate course in Rio de Janeiro, in Advertising Writing and Art Direction. From there he made his profession, which he returns to as often as his personal training project allows. The project that takes her cyclically to London, where she lands in St. Martins, to take the courses Experimental Printmaking and Jewelery, Silkscreen Printing, Cameraless Photography, Patternmaking and Contemporary Collage. Her artistic activity, meanwhile, began in 2005, in the intuitive encounter with colors, visual effects, image, materials, textures and manual and digital work tools. Since then he explores the surfaces in the permanent hope of finding the answers to all the questions he hasn't asked yet.
Collective Exhibitions:
2011 MALA, Bienal, Lagos, Lagos Artists Show
2010 Allentejo, Espaço Oficinas, Aljustrel
2010 CAL - Collective of Artists from Lac, Galeria Marlagos
2009 LAC - Creative Activities Laboratory, former Lagos chain
2009 Lagos Cultural Center, Lagos
2009 BALI BAG, Lagos Artists Show, Lagos
2009 Lac Artists, Armazém Regimental, Lagos
2009 Alacultur, Mostra do Lac, Lagos
2008 Galo Bar, Lagos
2007 Secrets Circuit, Jardim Tropical, Lisbon
2005 Marlagos Gallery, Lagos
Individual Exhibitions:
2014 Je suis Ici, Tasca & Comme à Lisbonne, Paris
2013 Worlds and Funds, Ateneu Comercial de Lisboa
2013 The And, Marina Art Gallery, Lagos
2013 Lost and Found, installation and sculpture, Espaço Gil Eanes, Lagos
2012 Textualities, Marina Art Gallery, Lagos
2010 T3, Bistrô Gallery, Lagos
2007 Galo Bar, Lagos
2006 Ateliers do Bairro Alto, Lisbon
2006 Integral Project and Permanent Exhibition, Hotel Marina Club, Lagos
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Displacements, with Ana Luísa Ribeiro (DE) - Visual Arts
Synopsis: „Displacements“ is the designation „clowd“ of a set of painting works that I am developing. For those who intend to create in Lagos, I will initially do a search (fundraising) of images, photographic notes on / from the sea coast around the city. These images will not be the "typical" images for which the area is famous, but rather I intend to capture details of the limestone layers, rocks, in the small plants. These elements are part of my personal memory, from a very young age I spent part of my time in these places (I often camped at the campsite which, unfortunately, no longer exists, above Praia do Canavial). These images will later be transposed to the canvas, in a decontextualized and "without reference" way, so that, on the screens, they may appear as mountains, rocks, trees. Decontextualized from their origin, these elements suggest "fantastic" landscapes, which the observer "reads" according to their own personal and collective memories. For this reason, due to the disappearance of "clues" such as scale and color, there is a "displacement" of perception and receiving these images. Hence the name of this series.
Bio: Born in Lisbon. Painting Study Program 1988/92, Ar.Co., Lisbon, 1994/95 MA in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London (Scholarship from the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon). Works and lives in Cologne. He has won the Portuguese arts award "Amadeus de Sousa Cardoso" since 2009.
Exhibitions (selection, since 2010):
2019 „Art in São Bento 2019“, Official Residence of the Prime Minister, São Bento, Lisbon
2018 „Kunst hilft“, Kunst Komplex Gallery, Wuppertal
2017 „Neu Books“, Schlachthof, Cologne
2016 „Myths“, Butzweilerhof, Cologne
2015 „Das Wort wird Bild“, Städtische Galerie Fürth, Fürth
2014 „Zitate und andere Abweichungen“ Museum Théo Kerg, Schriesheim (S)
2013 „Addendum“, National Library, Lisbon
2012 „Marginalia“, „Sala do Cinzeiro“, E.D.P Foundation / Electricity Museum, Lisbon.
2010 „Espacio Atlántico“, Vigo Art Fair, Vigo (with Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea)
Public collections (selection)
European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Sparkasse KölnBonn, Cologne, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Espirito Santo Bank, Lissabon, PSD - Social Democratic Party, Lissabon, EDP Foundation / MAAT, Lisbon, CGD, Lissabon, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
