Untitled - amamede´s painting (Sem título - Pintura de amamede)

Untited (Sem título)

Mixed media on canvas

80x145

 

This canvas is contained in the catalogue of the Albuquerque e Lima Gallery, where it is available for purchase.

 

Dissolvo-me no azul, porque eu sou,

bem o conheço

uma fantasia do crepúsculo.....

        Texeira de Pascoaes

 

Nesta tela prepondera o azul, por vezes escuro, como uma sombra em que os brancos introduzem uma incerta emanação nebulosa - a alma da nossa esperança. Traços brancos escrevem um corpo de vagas lembranças impressas na imensidade do azul. São traços de luzes acesas nas trevas que soam como um grito no silêncio do azul escuro da noite. Neste cenário o azul mais escuro surge repleto de representações - mistério, escuridão, força - e transfere o seu lado mais escuro aos elementos que o rodeiam. No campo oposto os traços brancos enchem a noite azul de castidade e pureza.....

 

 

Do autor:       Quem Somos

Esta tela pode ser adquirida na Galeria da Albuquerque e Lima.

www.galeriaalima.webnode.com

 

 

amamede (António José Mamede de Albuquerque) was born in Cape Verde in 1943. Formerly of dual nationality, in 1974 he chose Portuguese nationality.

A teacher in higher education with a PhD in Medicine, he has been devoted to Painting since 1975.

His work was exhibited for the first time at the “Exposição Artistas de Coimbra” [Coimbra Artists Exhibition] organised in 1988 by the XI Congresso Nacional de Ortopedia [XI National Orthopedics Congress]. An associate of the Movimento Artístico de Coimbra [Coimbra Artistic Movement] from 1988, in 1994 he began collaborating in the teaching of Artistic Anatomy to students of ARCA-ETAC.

He was Associate Professor at the Coimbra University College of Arts, where he taught Theoretical Anatomy (1st and 2nd year of the various licentiate’s degrees) until 2008.

He is represented in a number of private collections, mainly belonging to collectors in the Portuguese and Brazilian university environment.

 in Myths of Art - an anthology of contemporary Portuguese painters - Chiado Editora 2009