Portuguese mixed-media artist, photographer, cinema and art theoretician and critic. Studies in science. 1949-52 Lives and studies cinema and art in Paris 1954 film documentary Christmas in Portuguese Art, Prize Aurélio Paz dos Reis 1942 onwards. 1962 Dom Roberto, (Prix de la Jeune Critique Festival de Cannes). Social-cultural activist: founds Círculo de Cinema, the first Portuguese filmclub, gives conferences in Portugal and abroad. Mixed-media works: 1969 Nós não estamos algures, exercício de comunicação poética, Mixed-media (selection): 1969 Nós não estamos algures, music by Jorge Peixinho, experimental films S8 Havia um homem que corria e Happy People, in collaboration with Carlos Gentil; 1969-1983 Almada, Um nome de Guerra, CAM, Fund. Juan March, Madrid, Fund. Mirò, Barcelona; 1975 Luiz Vaz 75, mixed-media, music by Jorge Peixinho, Gent, Bruxelas, Lisbon; 1979/80 videosculpture The Promised Land. Exhibitions (organization and participation) 1946 Comparative exhibition of Black Art and Contemporary Art, Lisbon 1972 - Do vazio à pro-vocação, Expo AICA, Lisbon; 1974 - Projectos-Ideias, Expo AICA, Lisbon, 1977 - Alternativa Zero, Lisboa; 1980 - A Palavra e a Letra, Portuguese Pavillion, Biennale di Venezia 80. Other Group shows (selection): 1976 - Galeria LDK Labirynth, Lublin, Poland, with Calhau and Sarmento; 1978 - 18 x 18 - Nova Fotografia, Gal. Diferença, Lisbon and Oporto; 1978 - 11 Artistas Portugueses - Revolution My Body nr. 2, Milan; 1984 - Artistas Fotógrafos em Portugal, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo; 1979 - Installation Identificación com tu Cuerpo, SACOM II, MVM; participation in the Festival Int. d'art Performance de Lyon. Solo exhibitions (selecção): 1978 - SACOM I, MVM, Malpartida de Cáceres; 1978 - A Tradição como Aventura, Gal. Quadrum, Lisbon; 1980 - Olympia Galeria Ars Viva!, Berlin; 1981 - Pre Texto II, CAPC, Coimbra; 1986 - Esse Ouro Dantes, Gal. Quadrum, Lisboa. A retrospective of his work was organized by Gulbenkian Foundation in 1998. Ser Moderno em Portugal, a recollection of his texts was published recently.
