Manuel Carmo

Jorge Manuel do Carmo Pereira de Almeida (born 1958 in Lisbon ) is a visual artist and writer from Portugal. Originally, he was a lawyer, assessor of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers during the seventh Portuguese Constitutional Government, President of the "Latin American Studies Institute ", a non-governmental organization for European Cooperation, and a member of various multinational companies. In the 1980s, he decided the course for painting on Ar.Co (Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual ) to visit in Lisbon. Since then he has devoted himself exclusively to painting, sculpture and writing.

Activities

Since 1985 he has exhibited his works in numerous exhibitions and conferences in Portugal and abroad. In 2000 he was awarded with the inaugural " Bienal de Pintura " an honorable mention.

Manuel Carmo is currently an advisor to the " European Museum Forum " in Portugal as well as consultants for international projects of the " Associação Portuguesa de Empresas com Museus - APOREM " an association comprising seventeen Portuguese museums with international projects.

Since January 2007 he is " Água de Coimbra Museu da " responsible for the management of the cultural and contextual and is also Director General of the art publishing AABA.

Manuel Carmo was artistic director of the art gallery " Galeria de Arte " in Lisbon's Bairro Alto. There he organized exhibitions of original works by major foreign painters, especially works by Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Erró, Gérard Schlosser and Joyce Tenneson.

In 2004, the production company Mandala brought out a DVD with the recent work of Manuel Carmo. In 2005, the Portuguese public television " Televisão Pública Portuguesa RTP " produced in collaboration with the Open University Universidade Aberta about the life and work of the artist a thirty- minute documentary, which was broadcast on RTP and RTP Internacional.

Manuel Carmo is so far the only Portuguese painter who was invited in 2006 to present on the UNESCO World Conference on " Cultural Education " project, which he called " Let's kind! " Called. Sanchez Bravo, president of the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, described his painting as "a new sober and harmonious musical form to transcend reality."

Carmo's last exhibition and performance in Portugal in 2005 with the title " - Cemitério de Esperança ou As Virtudes 7 para o Renascimento " recalled the earthquake 250 years ago and was under the patronage of the former Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio.

In 2006, Manuel Carmo was " 24 Manifesto" represented as individual exhibitors on " The creative act in art" in "Angel Orensanz Foundation Center for the Arts " in New York under the title. It was a combination of painting, sculpture and video art. The New York art critic Nancy di Benedetto commented " Largest deserves recognition of the fact that the artist's work is not rigidly oriented at schools or already established flows. His art work defies categorization and opens up new areas for the art of the 21st century. "

Manuel Carmo is regularly invited to give lectures on art, particularly within the framework of UNESCO and the projects "Collect and Share " and "Long Life Learning" as part of the EU education programs " Socrates " and " Grundtvig ".

Exhibitions

He is represented in various foundations and museums, including New York, according to Arts Annual Catalogue 2007:

  • Fundação António Prates
  • Michetti Foundation
  • European Museum Forum
  • International Museum of Grafic Art
  • Mumi Museum
  • Museu de Arte da Madeira Contemporânea
  • Museu da Água da Epal
  • Chaves
  • City ​​Bragança
  • City ​​of Lisbon
  • Mundial Confiança
  • Editora Universitaria
  • Ateliers de Arte do Bairro Alto
  • Centro Português de Serigrafia
  • Estrutura de Missão Contra a Violência Doméstica
  • Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York
  • Fundação Mário Soares
  • Instituto Beni Culturali Emília Romagna, Italy
  • Fundação Portuguesa the Comunicações
  • Museu das Comunicações
  • Centro Cultural de Avilez
  • Museu da Água de Coimbra
  • Collection of Queen Fabiola of Belgium
  • Chico Buarque de Holanda collection of
  • Collection of Bertinotti, President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies

Publications

Published Books on "Art ":

  • " Aquae liberae Triumphalis Ingressus " Editorial Hugin, 2004
  • " To Café pelo Aqueduto " Editorial ACD, 2005
  • "A Diferença para " Ateliers de Arte do Bairro Alto, 2005
  • " 1755 - Cemitério de Esperança ", editorial ACD, 2005
  • " Manifesto 24 " Angel Orensanz Foundation ( New York ), 2005
  • " Liberdade Número 800240574 " Fundação Mário Soares, 2006
  • " Aqui há Gato! " Museu das Comunicações, 2006
  • "Os 7 Estados da Água ", AABA Edições 2007
  • Painter (Portugal )
  • Sculptor (Portugal )
  • Nonfiction author
  • Portuguese
  • Born in 1958
  • Man
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