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FILIPA TOJAL
JAN 2016

Blue Gardens [Exhibition View], 2015

Filipa Tojal, born in 1993, completed a BA in Fine Arts – Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Oporto, Portugal, having also studied for six months at Middlesex University, London UK, where she developed her interest in drawing and printmaking. As a painter, her work reflects on the pictorial capabilities of nature and in the conception of environments and emotional states. In 2014 she did an artistic residence in Île d’Ouessant, France, where she could understand her own connection to nature and landscape. Right now lives and works between Oporto, Portugal and Piedmont, Italy, while preparing her trip to Japan, where she will proceed her studies in a Master in Painting.

UPCOMING - EXHIBITION

FILIPA ROQUE
JAN 2016

O Lugar das Coisas
Acrylic and Pencil on Paper
40 x 50 cm
2015

Lives and works in Lisbon. BA in Painting (2012) and Communication Design (2008) at Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. Artist selected for several art competitions, such as Jovens Criadores 2012 (Cascais), Art < 30 2012 (Sala Parés, Galeria Trama, Barcelona), XVI Call (Galéria Luis Adelantado, 2015, Valencia). Was a resident artist at the 17th Cerveira Biennial (2013) and Budapest Galéria (Lisbon Budapest Interchange Program, 2014). In 2015, exhibited the project Desenhos Longos, at Galeria Quadrum, Lisbon. Continues working in painting and drawing, focusing on the playful articulation of lines, forms and surfaces. 

UPCOMING - EXHIBITION

DIOGO BOLOTA
JAN 2016

Pelikan, 2015

Diogo Bolota, born in Lisbon, moved to London in 2013. Making a BA in Architecture at FA-UTL influenced his conception of drawing practice. A special interest for drawing and painting made him go to England to continue his studies in arts which were first started before architectural studies in FBAUL. There, he did a Master in Drawing at University of Arts of London which terminated in September 2013. His approach to work, in a fine art context, mixtures the knowledge acquired at FBAUL and at FA-UTL. In the past two years, among other projects, he participated in Canto Chanfrado (Avenida 211), he did Sabotage at Maus Hábitos (Porto) and a project room at A Cunha (Lisbon).

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ANA TECEDEIRO
JAN 2016

Não Sejas Desmanchas Prazeres II
Paper Stapled on MDF Panel
60 x 120 cm
2013

Memory is one of the central features in the work of Ana Tecedeiro, which is built upon numerous registers that involve and evoke everyday life. This collection or appropriation of registers reminds us of a child’s gaze – attentive, curious and devoid of any attempt at resistance. Although this gaze may seem ingenuous, it is filled with a profound meaningfulness, directing our attention to places and past experiences, while still retaining the power to reformulate them.

Her work has great versatility, not only in technical terms, adopting different approaches, such as an extraordinary coherence of form and concept.

The appropriation is clear both in her two-dimensional works (in which the introduction of certain elements provokes a carefully considered reconstruction that subverts the purely visual and pre-acquired elements), and in her three-dimensional constructions (in which Ana Tecedeiro concentrates, circumscribes and deposits objects, among small wooden cubicles or boxes). These objects then take on their own life, concentrating in themselves reminiscences of a past in which the spectator can see himself reflected and revisit himself, while at the same time reconstructing the different spaces and concentrating them into one single space.

Tiago Mourão