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 Copyright the artist | | | Calhau, Fernando (1948 - 2002)
Portugal
Espaço-Tempo-Mar, 1976
Water colour (35 elements); Black and white photograph on platex (35 elements);
250 x 206 cm
Conceptualism
UID 102-86
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Biography
Portuguese artist, born in Lisbon. Graduated in Painting at the Fine Arts School of Lisbon (ESBAL), post-graduate studies at the The Slade School of Fine Art, Londres (1974). Monochrome and the void are the essence of his work. Calhau had is first exhibition in 1968, and afirmed his art by developing engraving (he participated at VIII Internationl Engraving Biennale, Ljbljana, Yugoslavia, and Prints Biennale, Tokyo, 1969) and using, at the same time, drawing, photography, S8 film, video, whilst painting. In the 80's he develops the idea on medium and shape, scale and architecture of space, employing, among other materials, iron and neon. Solo exhibitions (selection) 1968 "Gravuras brancas" Gal. Gravura, Lisbon; 1970 "Pintura" Gal. Quadrante, Lisbon; "Desenhos Negros" SNBA, Lisbon , 1975 "Fernando Calhau - Graphic Works", Fund. Calouste Gulbenkian; Lisbon; 1977 "Stage" Gal. Módulo, Oporto; 1978 "Night Works", SNBA, Lisbon; 1993 "Razão/Ratio", Gal. Cómicos, Lisbon; 1995 "Paint it Black" (with Michael Biberstein), Porta 33/Museo de Arte Contemporânea do Funchal, Madeira Island; 2000 "Slow Motion", Art Attack, ESTGAD, Caldas da Rainha; 2001 "00.01 Gal. Cristina Guerra, Lisboa, "Passageiro Assediado - Desenhos", CAMJAP, Fund. Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon. Group exhibitions (selection) 1972 Expo AICA, SNBA, Lisbon, 1973 Prémio Soquil, 1974 "Four Portuguese Printers", Galeria Valeriur de Daedeber, Aalst, 1976 "20e Aniversário da Gravura", Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, "Portugalia", Labirynt, Lublin, Poand, "Arte Portuguesa Contemporanea", Brasília, São, Paulo, Rio de Janeiro; 1977, "Alternativa Zero", "Photography as Art, Art as Photography", Porto, Lisboa, Barcelona, "Artisti Porthogesi d'Oggi", Laboratorio, Milan; 1988 "Lisbonne Aujourd'jui", Musée de Toulon, Toulon; 1992 "Arte Portuguesa: Parlamento Europeu", Strasbourg; 1998 "Arte Portugués desde 1960 en la Colección del Centro de Arte Moderna de la Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian", Fund. Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Madrid; 1999 "Circa 1968" Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Oporto, "Linhas de Sombra", CAMJAP Fund.Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, "Mostra de Vanguardas Portuguesas", Fund. ICO, Madrid; 2000 "Prémios EDP de Pintura e Desenho", Gal. do Rei D. Luís, Palácio Nacional da Ajuda, Lisboa. CAMJAP Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, has shown a retrospective of his work "Work in Progress" in 2001.
Exhibitions
STAGE
MÓDULO - Centro Difusor de Arte, Portugal
01-01-1977 ~ 31-12-1977
Alternativa Zero
Galeria Nacional de Arte Moderna, Portugal
01-01-1977 ~ 31-12-1977
Perspectiva Alternativa Zero
Fundação de Serralves, Portugal
01-01-1997 ~ 31-12-1997
Olladas Oceánicas
Museo do Mar de Galicia, Spain
19-11-2003 ~ 18-01-2004
Photography in The Berardo Collection
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
01-02-2005 ~ 30-04-2005
Building/Unbuilding/Inhabit - works of The Berardo Collection
Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal
29-04-2005 ~ 15-01-2006
Work in Progress
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian /CAMJAP, Portugal
18-10-2001 ~ 05-01-2002
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
22-10-2002 ~ 28-02-2003
Observers
Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal
14-02-2011 ~ 29-05-2011
Bibliography
Olladas Oceánicas, 2003
Published by Museu do Mar de Galicia
ISBN 8493337321
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, 2002
Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo
ISBN 972974288X
Work in Progress, 2001
Published by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
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