Centre culturel portugais Camoes
4, place Joseph Thorn, Luxembourg-Hollerich
Exposition du mardi 05.03.2019 au mardi 07.05.2019
Accueil par Adilia Martins de Carvalho, directrice du Centre Camoes, ensuite visite guidée en français par l'artiste.
Sofia Areal (1960) is one of the most important Portuguese visual artists of her generation.
She began her training in 1979 at the Hertfordshire College of Art and Design in St Albans, UK. In Portugal she studied etching and painting at Ar.Co. (Art and Visual Comunication Center).
Her first group exhibition was in 1982 at the 1a Mostra de Artes in Lagos, Portugal and her first solo show was in 1990 at Galeria Alda Cortez, Lisbon. Since then, Sofia has exhibited in various countries individually and collectively.
She had a retrospective exhibition covering the last 10 years of her career in 2011 at the Galeria da Cordoaria Nacional the exhibition was accompanied by a book published by Babel, with texts of among others: Jorge Silva Melo and Professor Luís Campos e Cunha. In 2012 Areal illustrates the literary magazine published by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Colóquio Letras. In 2013 launches a book together with Harvard Professor, Allan Hobson – “ Creativity”. Since 2013, Areal has started an international exhibition program, in Macau – Orient Foundation 2014, Oslo - Embassy Art Space 2015 and Dublin in 2016. In the same year a film by Jorge Silva Melo, “Sofia Areal: Um Gabinete Anti-Dor” premiers. In 2017 Areal continues a series of exhibitions, started in 2016 in quARTel das Artes in Abrantes, about her own private collection in Lagos Cultural Centre, followed by MUDAS. Contemporary Art Museum of Madeira and Centro Cultural Raiano - a series, which will continue in 2019. In 2017-2018 she creates a tiles panel is together with a group of artists and 3 individual ones, all with Ratton Gallery in Lisbon. (Visual : Sofia Areal - Novo III - 2017 - Acrilico sobre Madeira - diam. 120 cm - réf. 1601 - Fotografia : José Manuel Vasconcellos).
Catherine de Jamblinne accueillera les Amis des Musées pour ce Midi de l'Art.
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