Lisbon , Portugal
About Joao Figueiredo
Born in 1970, in Lisbon were lives and works
2008/09 Drawing and fine arts at Ar.Co, Lisbon
1994/95 Animation Film at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon 1989/93 Graphic Design degree at I.A.D.E. school, Lisbon
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION):
2013 • “THE GARDEN OF HIDDEN” • Arts no solar st Antonio Gallery • Oporto, Portugal 2013 • “Small Is Great” • Allarts Gallery • Lisbon, Portugal
2011 • “Stolen Beauty” • Schloss Korb Gallery • Bolzano, Italy
2011 • “Broken Promise” • Espaço Cultural Príncipe Real • Lisbon, Portugal
2011 • “Look into Me” • The Bridge Gallery • Lisbon, Portugal
2010 • “Imatges de la memoria” • Art el Set Gallery • Principality of Andorra
• “Don ́t tell me the truth” • Camara dos Azuis Gallery • Lisbon, Portugal 2009 • “Portugal Lovers” • Artin Gallery • Lisbon, Portugal
• “Back to the Palace” • Pombal Palace • Lisbon, Portugal
2008 • “Once upon a time in... 1808 1908” • Finances Ministry • Lisbon, Portugal 2007 • “D-Tales” • Solar de St. António Gallery • Oporto, Portugal
• “Recent Works” • Schloss Korb Gallery • Bolzano, Italy
• “SE7EN - from Past to Pop” • City Museum • Lisbon, Portugal 2006 • “Less is More” • Zizi Gallery • London, UK
• “Again For The First Time” • Finances Ministry • Lisbon, Portugal 2005 • “Rinascimento d’Il Ritrato” • Hotel Tivoli • Oporto, Portugal
• “Memory Portraits” • Grémio Literário • Lisbon, Portugal (sponsor BPN)
2004 • “Lilliput Chamber” • Arte Privada Gallery • Lisbon, Portugal (sponsor Barclays Bank)
2003 • “Forbiden fruits” • Arte Privada Gallery • Lisbon, Portugal
2002 • “Per(as)pectivas” • Artes e Artes Gallery • Lisbon, Portugal
2001 • “Dead by nature” • Alcântara-Studio Gallery • Lisbon, Portugal (sponsor Oni )
2000 • “3 Centuries 2 paintings” • Alcântara-Studio Gallery • Lisbon, Portugal (sponsor MillenniumBCP)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION):
2010 • PT WOMAN A TRIBUTE • Eye of Gyre Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007 • “XIII International Biennial of art of Vila Nova de Cerveira” • V. N. Cerveira, Portugal
• Arte Madrid 2007 • Madrid, Spain
2006 • “Glasgow Art Fair 2006” • Glasgow, Scotland
2005 • “Biennale Internazionale del ́Arte Contemporanea” • Florence, Italy
• “D. Fernando II Prize” • Espaço Cultural S. Domingos • Sintra, Portugal
• “XIII International Biennial of art of Vila Nova de Cerveira” • V. N. Cerveira, Portugal
• “Vespeira prize” • Montijo City Hall • Montijo, Portugal
• “Estoril Arte” • Arte In Gallery • Estoril Congress Centre • Cascais, Portugal • “Artur Bual award” • City Hall • Amadora, Portugal
2003 • “Estoril Arte” • Arte Urbana Gallery • Estoril Congress Centre • Cascais, Portugal 2002 • “Winter Festival” • Thirteen Floor Gallery • Chicago, USA
SPECIAL PROJECTS
2013 • “Cinderella or the revenge of garbage” • Installation for the ARTFAIR 2013 Lisbon
2013 • “SET ME” • Set of 12 porcelain cover plates by Vista Alegre
2013 • “Garden of Hidden” • intervention on a signature cabinet by Luisa Peixoto, presented in Paris at Maison Objet
2012 • “Premiére Vision” • Brand image for the haut couture fair in Paris
AWARDS:
2010 • “ART.COM Cascais” • 1o Prize • Cascais City Hall • Cascais, Portugal
2007 • “III Erotic Art Award 2007” • Honourable mention • Gondomar City Hall • Gondomar, Portugal 2005 • “IX D. Fernando II Award 2005” • Honourable mention • Sintra City Hall• Sintra, Portugal
2004 • “Nadir Afonso Award 2004” • 1st prize • Contemporary Art Fair of Estoril • Cascais, Portugal
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
GAN insurances, Millennium BCP Bank, Loures City Hall, Barclays Bank, Mário Soares Foundation, BPN Bank, Lisbon Airport, Espírito Santo Group, Tivoli Hotels, Ministry of Finances, Sintra City Hall, Royal Palace of Stockholm, Govern of Huambo Province , Angola, Portuguese Embassy in Tokyo, Portuguese Embassy in Andorra Principality
COUNTRIES WHERE HE IS REPRESENTED:
Angola, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Principality of Andorra, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA
ARTISTS STATEMENT
The act of creation has and always will be an act of courage and freedom. There must be an immediate component in the creative act and so it needs materials that respond instantly to the wish to see something tangible! In my work I favour acrylics above all: they are fast, clean and effective. I use colors to represent the mysterious universe: black is the main color, the depth, infinity, which is then complemented by small streaks of other colors.
This exercise on photography, as the basis for producing a final image, means that using the image of a particular work, whether a portrait or a group of figures, it is recreated by superimposing the painting. I fragment, synthesize, reconstruct and reinterpret the world’s pictorial tradition.
I meddle in your tranquility. As I do it I challenge you to query what I am about to show you, to fulfill the main function of art: to question yourself. In this case I do it by combining two ages; the age of permanence, when I allow classicism to survive, and the age of modernity with which I clothe them, ending with the Swarovski crystal incrustations that aid in their delivery. Past and present are united and combine the meaning of all that is new and singular. I want to create art from art, forcing the classical to become contemporary.
The lines create a visual timelessness in impossible planes, geometries that reveal the original composition of the work. They are biographies where the pictorial language will construct, deconstruct or reconstruct the history of an apparently obscure universe of lusterless symbols but which begs to be revealed using the information given about each piece.
I enjoy manipulating the images and so creating a narrative: “The story of satire”. Humor is always useful.
João Figueiredo
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