Albuquerque Mendes
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Albuquerque Mendes is a Portuguese artist. He works in the fields of painting, performance art
and installation
.
, an exhibition space for young Portuguese artists in the mid 1980s. In recent years, his work has been shown in museums and galleries in Brazil
.
His performances draw on the processions and events that are part of Portuguese popular culture. His paintings include self-portraits, portraits of girls and soldiers, groups of nuns, flowers, landscapes and sexually explicit scenes. In the 1990s his work became more abstract.
He has exhibited with Nelson Leirner at the Valecian Institute of Modern Art. His work is held in the collection of the Berardo Museum.
Performance art
In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or...
and installation
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
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Life and work
A founding member of the Grupo Puzzle he established, with Gerardo Burmester, the Espaco Lusitano in PortoPorto
Porto , also known as Oporto in English, is the second largest city in Portugal and one of the major urban areas in the Iberian Peninsula. Its administrative limits include a population of 237,559 inhabitants distributed within 15 civil parishes...
, an exhibition space for young Portuguese artists in the mid 1980s. In recent years, his work has been shown in museums and galleries in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
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His performances draw on the processions and events that are part of Portuguese popular culture. His paintings include self-portraits, portraits of girls and soldiers, groups of nuns, flowers, landscapes and sexually explicit scenes. In the 1990s his work became more abstract.
He has exhibited with Nelson Leirner at the Valecian Institute of Modern Art. His work is held in the collection of the Berardo Museum.