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Copyright the artist | | | Castro, Lourdes (1930 - ) Portugal
Sombra Projectada de Claudine Bury, 1964
Acrylic and synthetic enamel on canvas; 100 x 100 cm Nouveau Réalisme
UID 102-96
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Biography
Born in Funchal, Madeira Island. She attended the School of Fine Arts in Lisbon where she studied painting (1950-1956). Having moved to Paris in 1958, she returned to Madeira in 1983, where she lives. She and her husband René Bertholo were founder members of the KWY group, with Christo, Jan Voss, João Vieira, José Escada, Gonçalo Duarte and others. In the early 1960s she began to collect common everyday objects, which she covered with silver paint. Her work with objects opened up the possibilities of representing the shadow. She created her first works using shadows and outlines and published, together with Benjamin Patterson Prints and Comments (1962). Her research spread progressively from silkscreen painting and Plexiglas to canvas and cloth (sheets). In the process, her contoured and painted shadows evolved into "reclining shadows" which culminated in "Moving shadows" or shadow theatre (1973). Since then she has continually exhibited shadows in many European countries. She has taken part in several international exhibitions of painting, artist's books and Mail Art. Solo exhibitions (selection): 1966 Baden-Baden, Stattliche Kunsthalle, 1967 Indica Gallery, London, Gallery 20, Amsterdam, 1971 Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Akademie der Künste (with René Bertholo). Group shows (selection): 1959 V Bienal de São Paulo (and 1985); 1960 Grupo KWY, Universidty of Saarbrüken, Germany, SNBA, Lisbon; 1961 Gal. Le Soleil dans la Tête, Paris, 1st Paris Biennale, 1972-74 AICA, SNBA, Lisbon; 1977 Boite, ARC, Paris, 1985 Dialogue, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation CAM, Lisbon, 1988 Vraiement faux, Fondation Cartier, Paris. Retrospective at the Gulbenkian Foundation in 1992. Lourdes Castro represented Portugal, together with Francisco Tropa, in the São Paulo Biennale 1998.
Exhibitions
The Berardo Collection: An Addiction to Freedom Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 28-03-2003 ~ 28-09-2003
KWY Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 15-03-2001 ~ 22-07-2001
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 10-10-2003 ~ 13-03-2004
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Gunma) The Museum of Modern Art (Gunma), Japan 19-02-2005 ~ 27-03-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Hiroshima) Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan 29-05-2005 ~ 10-07-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Nagoya) Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan 10-09-2005 ~ 30-10-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo) Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo), Japan 26-07-2005 ~ 28-08-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Osaka) Daimaru Museum, (Umeda, Osaka), Japan 19-01-2005 ~ 06-02-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo) The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Japan 06-11-2004 ~ 26-12-2004
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Kochi) The Museum of Art (Kochi), Japan 03-04-2005 ~ 22-05-2005
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 22-10-2002 ~ 28-02-2003
Colecção Berardo - Arte Pop & Ca. Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 19-04-2002 ~ 15-09-2002
Sedução Cinema & Pintura Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 27-06-2006 ~ 31-01-2007
Berardo Museum Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 16-09-2007
De Miró à Warhol. La Collection Berardo à Paris Musée du Luxembourg, France 16-10-2008 ~ 22-02-2009
Art in France 1860-1960: Realism MASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil 15-05-2009 ~ 30-06-2009
Art in France 1860-1960: Realism, Porto Alegre MARGS, MUSEU DE ARTE DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL ADO MALAGOLI, Brazil 13-07-2009 ~ 30-08-2009
Lourdes Castro e Manuel Zimbro: À Luz da Sombra Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Portugal 10-02-2010 ~ 10-07-2010
Bibliography
Colecção Berardo - Art Pop & Ca., 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742873
KWY, 2001 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 2004 Published by TBS Television, INC.
Sedução Cinema & Pintura, 2006 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729903034
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972974288X
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