For the Chantiers d’Europe’s 4th edition, the Palais de Tokyo, in partnership with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, is presenting the work of six Portuguese artists who work with sound and speech in many forms. The exhibition is also meant to create a wider audience for this extremely dynamic scene that is still relatively unknown.
A kills B
Red monochrome
A kills B collective is a circle of creation that works as a cooperative of authors: thinkers, musicians, performers, artists, technicians . People are invited to develop specific works or to have part in certain moments of work. The collaboration happens in order to create an opened production in constant movement. It would be easier to understand the heterogeneity of the projects made until now as an escape, an attempt of incoherence, of a rupture in speech, making an object or a succession of objects that put the spectator in a moving ground in confrontation with the work. This mode of fusion aims to overlap the aesthetic boundaries of each one of the participants creating this way a third entity. A kills B have been part of several events such as: 2012, A kills B / A mata B, Modern Art Center, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, (with José Miranda Justo) Lisbon; 2011, A kills B, Ve.Sch – Dienstag Abend, Vienna, Austria (with Christoph Meier); 2010, Sobre um céu revolto, fala enquanto dorme, de um mar obliquo, Appleton Square, Lisbon; 2009, Dimensão Radial, VPF Rock Galery, Lisbon; Jack presents / Group Show, Sala do Veado, National Museum for Natural History, Lisbon; ZDB open studios, ZDB, Galeria Zé dos Bois, (with Cara Manning and Filipe Raposo), Lisbon; 2008, Now Jump, Nam June Paik Art Center, (with Park Seung Jun and Lee Tae Yoon), Yongin-si, South Corea; 2007, 3º Ariane de Rothschild Painting Prize, (with João Cabaço), Lisbon; More heat than light, The Basement Gallery, Town Hall, Dundalk, Irland.
JOANA BASTOS
Why not guitar ?
Joana Bastos was born in Lisbon in 1979.
Graduated with a MFA from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, 2008; graduated with a Postgraduate from the same college, 2007; graduated with a BA Hons in painting, from University of Fine Arts, Lisbon, 2004.
Solo shows (selection): … If I were you I´d paint it pink and place a chair upside down… Vera Cortês Art Agency, Lisbon PT, 2013; Gustav Metzger (1926 – Fridge), Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, Lisbon PT, 2012; To whom it may concern, Vera Cortês Art Agency, Lisbon PT, 2010; A$T, Project Room, CAV Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra PT, 2010; No money, no honey, Threshold Artspace, Perth, Scotland UK, 2010; Ask me, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon PT, 2009. She was also part of the following group shows (selection): LAUGHTER, Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon PT, 2013; Verritas, Palácio de Santa Catarina, Lisbon PT, 2012; Our Work Is Never Over, Photoespana, Matadero, Madrid ES, 2012; Verbo, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo BR, 2010; A Filosofia do Dinheiro, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon PT, 2010; PEOPLE, Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon PT, 2010; Impossible Exchange, Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London UK, 2009; Entre o Céu e o Mar – Allgarve, CAV no Centro Cultural de Lagos, Lagos PT, 2009; Employability, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London UK, 2008; 7/10, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon PT, 2008. She is represented by Vera Cortês Art Agency.
ANTONIO OLAIO
What happened to Henry Matisse – If I wasn’t an artist – Blaupunkt blues – Rosebud Video works.
António Olaio, Portuguese, born in 1963, Sá da Bandeira, Angola. Painter, performer, musician. His early performances in the 80’s led him to music, writing lyrics and singing songs as kind of alternative to art theory. Recent solo exhibitions: 2013 – The sorrows of electricity, Galery Filomena Soares, Lisbon ; 2012- This Widow is Blocking my Windows, Chiado Museum, Lisbon; 2010- La Prospettiva is sucking reality, Museum of Neo-Realism, Vila Franca de Xira; Na cátedra de S. Pedro, Museum Grão Vasco, Viseu 2009 – La prospettiva, Mario Mauroner, Vienna, Austria ; Brrrrain, Culturgest, Lisbon ; Crying my brains out, gallery Filomena Soares, Lisbon ; 2007 – I think differently now that I can paint, Cultural Centre Vila Flôr, Guimarães ; 2006 – Under the stars, ZDB, Lisbon ; 2005 Pictures are not movies, gallery Filomena Soares, Lisbon ; 2004 – 40 years in a plane – Kenny Schachter conTEMPorary, New York. I’m growing heads in my head, Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra ; 2003 – You are what you eat, Cultural Centre Andratx, Palma de Maiorca, 2002 – Telepathic agriculture, Galerie Schuster, Berlin and Frankfurt. Performances in Portugal, Germany, France, Holland. Professor in the architecture course and director of Colégio das Artes , both in the University of Coimbra.
RICARDO JACINTO
Atraço
Ricardo Jacinto (Lisbon, 1975)
Working as an artist and musician mainly focusing on the relation of sound and space. Currently doing a PHD research at SARC / Belfast. Studies in Architecture, Sculpture and Music / Lisbon. Post-graduate Studies / School of Visual Arts, New York. Since 1998 has presented his work in individual and group exhibitions, concerts and performances, in Portugal and abroad: CCB_Lisbon, Circle Fine Arts_Madrid, MUDAM_Luxemburg, Centre Culturel Gulbenkian_Paris, Manifesta 08_European Bienal of Contemporary Art _Loraine Frac-Metz, OK CENTRE_Linz, Culturgest_Lisboa and Casa da Musica_Porto. Projected with architect Pancho Guedes the installation “Lisboscópio” for the Official Portuguese Representation at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2006. In Culturgest (Lisbon and Porto) presented in 2008 a significant body of his work since 1998. As cellist has worked in the field of free improvised music (CACTO, PINKDRAFT, David Maranha, Pedro Rebelo, Franziska Shroeder, Gabriel Ferrandini, Hernani Faustino, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Ernesto Rodrigues, Ricardo Guerreiro, C Spencer Yeh, Shiori Usui, Manuel Mota, Variable Geometry Orchestra). CDs released at Creative Sources and Shhpuma Records/ Clean Feed. Presented his work as a musician-performer at Galeria Vermelho_São Paulo, Festival Temps d’Images_Lisboa, Festival Rescaldo_Lisbon, CCB_Lisbon, Culturgest_Porto and Lisbon, ZDB_Lisbon, Dance Base_Edimbrugh, Kabinett 0047_Oslo, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, among others.
FRANCISCO TROPA
Il Gigante
Francisco Tropa. Born in Lisbon, Portugal, 1968 – Lives and works in Lisbon. Sculpture has been a permanent interest in the artistic practice of Francisco Tropa, who works since the beginning of the 90s and has gained a significant attention by institutions and the critique. Representing Portugal in the last edition of Venice Biennale (2001), he also participated in Istambul Biennial (2011), Manifesta (2000), Melbourne Biennial (1999) and Bienal de São Paulo (1999). Several media are used by Tropa – sculpture itself, drawing, performance, photography or film – to convene a series of reflections introduced by the different traditions of sculpture. Subjects such as body, death, nature, landscape, memory, origin or time, are always present in his works, in an endless process of projection of references from the history of art, from other art works, from previous works of the artist, and from specific authors. Notions of device and spectator are also fundamental to understand his practice, which defies all the traditional categories of art, its representation and perception.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2012
Museu, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal. Flowers, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal. Stela, Fundação Leal Rios, Lisbon, Portugal.
2011
Tali, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal. Scenario, Official Portuguese Representation, 54th Venice Biennale, Italy. Untitled, 12th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey. Literal, Circular – Festival de Artes Performativas, Vila do Conde, Portugal (with Laurent Pichaud).
2010
Scripta, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal. Farol, Natureza Morta, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal. Giant, Auditório do Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal.
MUSA PARADISIACA
Impossible tasks ( the Servant of the Cenacle)
Musa paradisiaca is a dialogue-based artistic project by Eduardo Guerra (1986, Lisbon, Portugal) and Miguel Ferrão (1986, Lisbon, Portugal).
Eduardo Guerra (1986; Lisbon), lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. Has shown in different group shows such as: O Amor de Alcibíades (The Love of Alcibiades, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, 2012), História do tacto (History of touch, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Reading Room, Lisbon, 2011); BES Revelação (Serralves-Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, 2010/11); Anti-Totem (Galeria Quadrum, Lisbon, 2010); Constructing History – the future life of the past (Convento de Cristo, Tomar, 2010 – a Kunsthalle Lissabon project). In partnership with Miguel Ferrão he directs the artistic project Musa paradisiaca. Master in Philosphy- Aesthetics by FCSH-UNL (Lisbon, 2011); attended the East London University’s Visual Arts B.A. as an Erasmus student, (London, 2009); graduated in Painting by FBAUL (Lisbon, 2009). Was Artist in Residency at Galeria Zé dos Bois (Lisbon, 2007); Summer residency, Labor (Budapeste, 2010). Joined, in 2011, the Capacete Residency Program (Brasil) granted by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. In 2012, he has integrated the Aguêdê-Alê Programme, in São Tomé and Príncipe (www.aguede-ale.com).
Miguel Ferrão (1986; Lisbon) lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. He holds a degree in Fine Arts by FBAUL (Lisbon), since 2008, and a Master’s degree in Philosophy-Aesthetics by FCSH-UNL (Lisbon), since 2011. Recently he has presented the individual shows Ser uma por duas (One as two, Kunsthalle Lissabon, 2011) and Prova de Esforço (Stress Proof, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, 2011). A selection of group shows includes The Days of This Society Are Numbered (Abrons Arts Center, New York, 2011), BesRevelação 2010 (Museu de Serralves, Porto, 2010), Pequenos Gestos em Lugares Específicos – Junho das Artes (Óbidos, 2010), Proximidade da Cópia (Espaço Avenida, Lisbon, 2008) and Quinta do Gato Cinzento (Palácio de Valadares, Lisbon, 2007). Between 2011 and 2012 he has coordinated and integrated the Aguêdê-Alê Programme, in São Tomé and Príncipe (www.aguede-ale.com), granted by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Instituto Camões. Between 2008 and 2010, collaborated with Galeria ZDB as curatorial assistant, programming Kenneth Anger Cycle and the group show Bright Morning Star (2009). Since 2010, and in partnership with Eduardo Guerra, Miguel Ferrão is running Musa paradisiaca, a dialogue-based project.