João Queiroz
Le Besoin du Noble
27 MARCH - 10 MAY 2003
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Her work is featured in the following collections: Museu do Chiado, Serralves Foundation, Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Funchal, EDP Foundation, Coleção António Cachola and also the Coleção Banco Privado. She received the Prémio União Latina prize in 2001.From the principles of assemblage, intervened appropriation and abstract construction, the artist creates objects that appeal to the careful reading of their own processes, surprise and intrinsic nature. Isolated or conceived for dialogues in the space, they have the presence and the tactile appeal of sculpture, but also the resourcefulness of drawing and the intriguing challenge of their latent symbolic reference.
Ana Jotta has build her work in a sequence of breakthroughs that embody some sort of erasement: of her own previous footsteps; of modernist ideology and post-modern mythologies; and of the notion of authorship - either by deconstructing it or rebuilding it, she has attempted to dismantle the idea of a coherent or univocal style. Through a bare economy of means, her work shows a great sense of intelligence and wit. With Ana Jotta, you can always expect the unexpected.
2013 - Grande Prémio Fundação EDP;
2014 - Prémio AICA;
2017 - Rosa Shapire Award, Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
Patrícia Garrido graduated in painting at the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes in Lisbon (ESBAL). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions which include: Mais Tempo, Menos História, Serralves Foundation, Porto (1996); O Império Contra-Ataca, Galeria ZDB, Lisbon (1998); Squatters, Galeria do CRUARB, Porto (2001). Solo exhibitions include: T1, Serralves Foundation, Porto (1998); Móveis ao Cubo, Desenhos ao Acaso, TREM Galeria Municipal de Arte, Faro (2009); Peças Mais ou Menos Recentes, EDP Foundation, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis and Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto (2013).
Ana Jotta was born in Lisbon in 1946, where she works and lives. After studying at Lisbon's Fine Arts School and Brussels' École d'Arts Visuels de l'Abbeye de la Cambre, Worked as an actress and stage designer (1976-79) with "Produções Teatrais" (University Theatre, Lisbon). From the 1980's onwards, she focused her activity on the visual arts and since the early nineties has been a regular presence at major art fairs and biennales (ARCO, Brussels, Johannesburg, Barcelona, etc.). In 2005, she had the retrospective exhibition Rua Ana Jotta at the Museu de Serralves.. In 2014, Ana presented an anthological A Conclusão da Precedente at Culturgest, Lisbon.
Artist Bio
Patrícia Garrido graduated in painting at the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes in Lisbon (ESBAL). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions which include: Mais Tempo, Menos História, Serralves Foundation, Porto (1996); O Império Contra-Ataca, Galeria ZDB, Lisbon (1998); Squatters, Galeria do CRUARB, Porto (2001). Solo exhibitions include: T1, Serralves Foundation, Porto (1998); Móveis ao Cubo, Desenhos ao Acaso, TREM Galeria Municipal de Arte, Faro (2009); Peças Mais ou Menos Recentes, EDP Foundation, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis and Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto (2013).
Ana Jotta was born in Lisbon in 1946, where she works and lives. After studying at Lisbon's Fine Arts School and Brussels' École d'Arts Visuels de l'Abbeye de la Cambre, Worked as an actress and stage designer (1976-79) with "Produções Teatrais" (University Theatre, Lisbon). From the 1980's onwards, she focused her activity on the visual arts and since the early nineties has been a regular presence at major art fairs and biennales (ARCO, Brussels, Johannesburg, Barcelona, etc.). In 2005, she had the retrospective exhibition Rua Ana Jotta at the Museu de Serralves.. In 2014, Ana presented an anthological A Conclusão da Precedente at Culturgest, Lisbon.
Ana Jotta has build her work in a sequence of breakthroughs that embody some sort of erasement: of her own previous footsteps; of modernist ideology and post-modern mythologies; and of the notion of authorship - either by deconstructing it or rebuilding it, she has attempted to dismantle the idea of a coherent or univocal style. Through a bare economy of means, her work shows a great sense of intelligence and wit. With Ana Jotta, you can always expect the unexpected.
2013 - Grande Prémio Fundação EDP;
2014 - Prémio AICA;
2017 - Rosa Shapire Award, Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
Artist Bio
Maybe I'm returning to my artistic life of set design and decorations. Something that I've never been too far away from.
Ana Jotta, Suite J video interview
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Her work is featured in the following collections: Museu do Chiado, Serralves Foundation, Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Funchal, EDP Foundation, Coleção António Cachola and also the Coleção Banco Privado. She received the Prémio União Latina prize in 2001.From the principles of assemblage, intervened appropriation and abstract construction, the artist creates objects that appeal to the careful reading of their own processes, surprise and intrinsic nature. Isolated or conceived for dialogues in the space, they have the presence and the tactile appeal of sculpture, but also the resourcefulness of drawing and the intriguing challenge of their latent symbolic reference.
The experimental methods he has explored to approach old problems of the language of art involve as much the potential of words written into compositions as, from 1998 onwards, the possibility of a sensorial and non-descriptive representation of nature. João Queiroz taught Drawing, Painting and Art Theory at the Ar.Co (1989-2001) in Lisbon, where he actually lives and works.
João Queiroz began to exhibit painting and drawing in the early 1980s, while studying Philosophy at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. Both interests converge in his work, which engages in an informed reflection on the role of the image in the contemporary age.
The experimental methods he has explored to approach old problems of the language of art involve as much the potential of words written into compositions as, from 1998 onwards, the possibility of a sensorial and non-descriptive representation of nature. João Queiroz taught Drawing, Painting and Art Theory at the Ar.Co (1989-2001) in Lisbon, where he actually lives and works.
Artist Bio
Patrícia Garrido graduated in painting at the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes in Lisbon (ESBAL). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions which include: Mais Tempo, Menos História, Serralves Foundation, Porto (1996); O Império Contra-Ataca, Galeria ZDB, Lisbon (1998); Squatters, Galeria do CRUARB, Porto (2001). Solo exhibitions include: T1, Serralves Foundation, Porto (1998); Móveis ao Cubo, Desenhos ao Acaso, TREM Galeria Municipal de Arte, Faro (2009); Peças Mais ou Menos Recentes, EDP Foundation, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis and Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto (2013).
João Queiroz began to exhibit painting and drawing in the early 1980s, while studying Philosophy at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. Both interests converge in his work, which engages in an informed reflection on the role of the image in the contemporary age.
Artist Bio
Artist Bio
João Queiroz began to exhibit painting and drawing in the early 1980s, while studying Philosophy at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. Both interests converge in his work, which engages in an informed reflection on the role of the image in the contemporary age.
The experimental methods he has explored to approach old problems of the language of art involve as much the potential of words written into compositions as, from 1998 onwards, the possibility of a sensorial and non-descriptive representation of nature. João Queiroz taught Drawing, Painting and Art Theory at the Ar.Co (1989-2001) in Lisbon, where he actually lives and works.