Artista

Rui Chafes

1966 en Lisboa, Portugal

Datos generales
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Residencia:

Reside en Lisboa, Portugal

Profesionales que le han comisariado:

David Barro en:

Campo de sombras, 2011

Delfim Sardo en:

Desenho Sem Fim, 2019
Desenho sem fim, 2018

Filipa Oliveira en:

Tudo é outra coisa, 2019

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Premios ganados:

Prémio AICA/Ministério da Cultura/Fundação Millennium BCP de Artes Visuais e Arquitetura - 2021
Premio Pessoa

Ferias en las que participa con OBRA :

ARCOmadrid 2024
ARCOlisboa 2023
Art Brussels 2023

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Galerías y otras organizaciones que le representan:

Filomena Soares

Organizaciones con obra:

Arquipélago Centro de Artes Contemporâneas

Câmara Municipal de Coimbra - Centro de Arte Contemporânea de Coimbra

Câmara Municipal de Lisboa

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Profesionales con obra:

Alberto Caetano

Armando Martins

Cees & Inge de Bruin-Heijn

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Actividad vigente:

No hay actividad VIGENTE

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Etiquetas:

Arte contemporáneo Arte iberoamericano Escultura

Enlaces oficiales:

Web

Descripción del Artista

Rui Chafes was born in 1966 in Lisbon, where he currently lives and works. In 1989 he graduated in Sculpture from the Faculdade de Belas-Artes de Lisboa. Between 1990 and 1992 he studied with Gerhard Merz at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Germany. During this stay he translated the Novalis Fragments from German into Portuguese. Since the mid-1980s, he has exhibited his work in Portugal and abroad. He represented Portugal at the 46th Venice Biennial in 1995 (with José Pedro Croft and Pedro Cabrita Reis) and at the 26th São Paulo Biennial in 2004 (in a joint project with Vera Mantero). In 2013 he was one of the international artists invited to exhibit in the Republic of Cuba’s pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennial. In Portugal, he has staged solo exhibitions at various key institutions, including Centro de Arte Moderna da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; Museu de Serralves (with Pedro Costa); Centro Cultural de Belém; ... Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna; Palácio Nacional da Pena; Museu Colecção Berardo (with Orla Barry) and Quetzal Art Centre (with Orla Barry). Abroad, he has staged solo exhibitions at institutions such as S.M.A.K. (Ghent, Belgium); Folkwang Museum (Essen, Germany); Esbjerg Kunstmuseum (Denmark); Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center (Copenhagen, Denmark); Fondazione Volume! (Rome, Italy); Fundação Eva Klabin (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Fundación Luis Seoane (A Coruña, Spain); Hara Museum, with Pedro Costa (Tokyo, Japan); Museu de Arte Moderna (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and Ilmin Museum, with Pedro Costa, (Seoul, Korea). The group shows in which he has participated include Inklusion / Exklusion, Steirischer Herbst, Graz; En la piel de toro, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem; 7. Triennale der Kleinplastik, Stuttgart; Milano Europa 2000, Milano; Scultura Internazionale a la Mandria, Torino; Cardinales, MARCO-Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo; Himmelschwer-Transformationen der Schwerkraft, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz; Ad Absurdum (Energien des Absurden-von der Klassischen Moderne zur Gegenwart), Museum MARTA, Herford; and Colossal!, Osnabrücker Land. His work forms part of many European collections (such as S.M.A.K., Belgium; Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Denmark; Museum Folkwang Essen, Germany; Sammlung Würth, Germany; Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Spain; Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporaneo, Spain; Colección Helga de Alvear, Spain; Colección Caja de Madrid, Spain; Fundacion Caixa Galicia, Spain; Fundación Caja de Ahorros del Mediterraneo, Spain; Centro de Arte Moderna da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal; Fundação de Serralves, Portugal; Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, Portugal; Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal; MAM - Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Colecção Cachola, Portugal; Fundação PLMJ, Portugal; Centro de Artes Visuais de Coimbra, Portugal; De Bruin - Heijin Collection, Netherlands. MACRO - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Italy, Centre Pompidou- musée nationale d’art moderne, Paris, France). In 2018 he exhibited several large-scale sculptures in the city of Bamberg, Germany, and made a dialogue-exhibition with Alberto Giacometti at the Fondation Gulbenkian a Paris, France. In addition, several of his sculptures are on permanent display in public spaces in Portugal and abroad. In 2004 he was awarded the Robert-Jacobsen Sculpture Prize by the Stiftung Würth in Germany. Part of his activity is dedicated to writing and translating as well as organizing and publishing the books that accompany his sculptural work.