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1984-1987
After Fine Arts School I was strongly
influenced by the emerging tendency in the arts; exhibitions about German
expressionismand New Figuration movements lead me to experiment the representation
of human figure as a landscape. My first individual exhibition at Galeria
Módulo ( Porto, 1984) presented oil large scale paintings. From
that period 'acrobate 1' and 'acrobate 2' paintings
illustrate my concerns with the capture of movement within a poetical frame
translating the representation of male bodies as screens of fantasy.
My first works had some visibility
in the big exhibitions in the new generation of Portuguese painters (Bienal
de Cerveira,1986; "NovosNovos"/SNBA/Lisboa; 1985;"Tempos de memória",
GaleriaMódulo Lisboa;1986; 1ª Exposição de Arte
Contemporânea, Museu Soares dos Reis, 1986; ‘12 Jovens artistas’,S.N.B.A./Lisboa,1984.).
However this was a fake impression; soon I discovered myself as an outsider.
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