Portugal Contemporary art
Maria de Lourdes Bettencourt de Castro was a Portuguese artist from Funchal, Madeira. After specializing in abstract art, in the 1960s she created collages and silk screens, seeking to capture ephemeral reality. From the 1970s, together with her partner Manuel Zimbro, she developed shadow puppets for her Shadow Theatre, gaining acclaim throughout Europe and Brazil. In 1998, together with Francisco Tropa, she created an installation for Portugal's contribution to the São Paulo Art Biennial.
Sobral Centeno is a Portuguese artist. He is known for his deep and complex abstract works that are characterised by an innovative use of form and texture.
Sobral Centeno's paintings are characterized by bright colours, bold and dynamic compositions, often featuring geometric shapes and patterns.
José de Guimarães, real name José Maria Fernandes Marques, is a contemporary Portuguese artist, a unique and inimitable figure in contemporary art. His training as an engineer, his approach as an anthropologist, his passion as a collector and his eye as an artist have for sixty years merged and intertwined to create a graphic and richly coloured language.
Maria Paula Figueiroa Rego was a Portuguese-British visual artist known particularly for her paintings and prints based on storybooks. Rego's style evolved from abstract towards representational, and she favoured pastels over oils for much of her career. Her work often reflects feminism, coloured by folk-themes from her native Portugal.
Jaime Isidoro is a Portuguese artist. Studied drawing and painting at Escola Soares dos Reis, Porto. For the first time he exhibited individually in 1945 (Porto). Parallel to his career as an artist, he has engaged in a wide range of activities as a cultural animator, gallery owner and teacher associated with important visual arts moments in the city of Porto and in the country. Since the urban landscape, especially the city of Porto, was the subject of many of his works, he initially created figurative works with sensitive formal simplifications, later developing into abstraction. His career as an artist has been marked by two distinct periods that define different phases: the first occurred in the mid-1940s and mid-1950s, while the second developed from the second half of the 1980s.
Rui Pedro Jorge is a contemporary portuguese artist. Lives and works in Lisbon. The work of Rui Pedro Jorge takes place within the context of figurative painting, and landscape, together with its elements, is the lead theme of most of his canvases. Painter of firm brush strokes and strong compositions, he often explores the relation between the idea of construction and violence, generating images in which a disturbing stillness reigns.
Sandra Palhares is a contemporary portuguese artist. She began her studies in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in the University of Oporto but she finished them in the Byam Shaw School of Art/CSM, University of the Arts London, UK, 1997. In 2009 she concluded the European Doctorate in Fine Arts at the School of Fine Arts of the University of País Vasco, Bilbao. Currently she is a teacher at IE, Universidade do Minho in Braga and collaborates with the Master’s Degree in Painting at the FBAUP. Since 1997 she has participated in various collective and solo exhibitions. She was awarded in 1998 with the 2nd Prize Fidelidade de Pintura Fidelidade and, in 1999, with the 1st Prize Jovens nas Artes. In between 1994-1997 she was a scholar at the Byam Shaw School of Art, University of the Arts London, UK and, in between 2000-2004 she was a scholar at the FCT.
Emanuel Pimenta, full name Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, is a Brazilian-Portuguese musician, architect, photographer and media artist.
In the late 1970s, Pimenta began working in the synthesis of visual arts, music, architecture, media systems, photography and urbanism. He also developed graphic music notation in virtual environments. The results of his research bridging art and science are presented as works in major museums, foundations and art collections in several countries.
Emanuel Pimenta develops music, architecture and urban projects using virtual reality and cyberspace technologies. His music concerts integrate visual art and have been held in different countries over the last twenty years. In 2016, he completed his third opera entitled Metamorphosis. In 2017, Pimenta was awarded the gold medal of the Paris Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters. Emanuel Pimenta is also a prolific writer: more than eighty of his books have been published since the 1970s.
Luís Tinoco is a Portuguese composer and producer of new music programs on radio.
Tinoco studied at the Escuela Superior de Musica de Lisboa, then at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at the University of York, where he received his doctorate in composition. Since 2000 he has been working as a freelance composer. He is also the author and producer of new music radio programs for Antena 2/RTP and lectures at the Escuela Superior de Música de Lisboa (EMSL).
Luis Tinoco's major works include the operas Evil Machines and Color Me, as well as the cantata The Wanderings of a Lonely Dreamer.
