Lourdes Castro
Lourdes Castro (born 1930) is a Portuguese artist from Funchal, Madeira. After specializing in abstract art, in the 1960s she created collages and silk screens, seeking to capture ephemeral reality. From the 1970s, together with her partner Manuel Zimbro, she then experimented with shadow puppets in her Shadow Theatre, gaining acclaim throughout Europe and Brazil. In 1998, together with Francisco Tropa, she represented Portugal at the São Paulo Art Biennial.[1][2][3]
Biography
Born on 9 December 1930 in Funchal, Lourdes Castro studied at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts, graduating in 1956. Her first solo exhibition at the Clube Funchalense in 1955 presented her early works which were influenced by Fauvism. On marrying her fellow student René Bertholo (1935–2005), in 1957 she presented an exhibition with him at Lisbon's Galeria Diário de Notícias.[1]
They then spent some time together in Munich before moving to Paris in 1958, thanks to a grant Castro received from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. There the couple published the experimental art journal KWY (1958–1963), creating a movement which included the Bulgarian Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, the German Jan Voss, and Portuguese artists including António Costa Pinheiro, José Escada, João Vieira and Gonçalo Duarte.[1][3]
References
- ^ a b c "Lourdes Castro". Museu Coleção Berardo. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
- ^ "Fundação de Serralves reabre com nova exposição dedicada a Lourdes Castro" (in Portuguese). dnoticias. 15 May 2020. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
- ^ a b Reliquet, Scarlett. "Lourdes Castro, translated from Dictionnaire universel des créatrices". Aware. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
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