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 Copyright estate of the artist | | | Sousa, Ernesto de (1921 - 1988)
Portugal
Revolution my Body Nr. 1, 1977
Photographic contact sheet and text (18 elements);
72 x 214 cm
Conceptualism
UID 102-546
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Biography
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.
Exhibitions
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection
Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal
10-10-2003 ~ 13-03-2004
Photography in The Berardo Collection
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
01-02-2005 ~ 30-04-2005
11 Artisti Portoghesi d'oggi
Galeria Laboratório, Italy
01-01-1978 ~ 31-12-1978
MVM
Museo Vostell de Malpartida, Spain
01-01-1978 ~ 31-12-1978
Ernesto de Sousa
Galeria Ars Viva, Germany
01-01-1980 ~ 31-12-1980
Itinerários
Galeria Almada Negreiros, Portugal
01-01-1987 ~ 31-12-1987
Revolution My Body
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian /CAMJAP, Portugal
05-03-1998 ~ 26-04-1998
Sedução Cinema & Pintura
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
27-06-2006 ~ 31-01-2007
Un teatro sin teatro
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Spain
24-05-2007 ~ 11-09-2007
Teatro sem Teatro
Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal
16-11-2007 ~ 17-02-2008
Observers
Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal
14-02-2011 ~ 29-05-2011
Bibliography
Alguns Corpos, Imagens da Arte Portuguesa entre 1959 e 1990, 1998
Published by EDP - Electricidade de Portugal
Ano 4, Out/Nov 2000, 2000
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection, 2003
Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém
ISBN 9728176856
Itinerários, 1987
Published by Galeria Almada Negreiros, Secretaria de Estado da Cultura
Revolution My Body, 1998
Published by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Sedução Cinema & Pintura, 2006
Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo
ISBN 9729903034
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