Francisco Simoes

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Francisco Simões (* 1946 in Porto Brandão , Freguesia Caparica ) is a Portuguese sculptor and draftsman .

Life

Francisco Simões comes from a family of fishermen. He attended the António Arroio Art School in Lisbon until 1965 , studied graphics in Italy at the age of 19 with a scholarship from the OECD and then sculpture at the Academia de Música e Belas Artes in Funchal on Madeira until 1974 . He was a consultant at the Portuguese Ministry of Education (Ministério da Educação e Ciência). In 1996 a secondary school in Laranjeiro near Almada was named after him.

Francisco Simões has lived in Sintra since 1991 .

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Marble statue of Francisco Simoes in Campo Pequeno Metro Station, Lisbon

His public statues include, for example, the bronze busts of José Maria Eça de Queiroz and the poet Afonso Duarte from 2000 and 2001, which are in the Penedo de Saudade Park in Coimbra . In Lisbon Rato Metro Station are his bronze busts of Arpad Szenes and his wife Maria Helena Vieira da Silva in 2002, the marble statues in the subway station Campo Pequeno he also drew up. His bronze monument by Teófilo Braga from 2004 is in Alfornelos , his marble monument to the priest Fernando Martins from 2008 is in Oeiras . In the government palace of the Azores in Ponta Delgada is his marble monument A Açoreana (German: The Woman of the Azores). Some of his works can also be found in the concelho (district) Vila Franca de Xira : the bronze sculpture Mulher (German: Woman) from 2003 in Forte da Casa , there in the city park the Azulejos Tres Graças (German: Three Graces) and Quatro Estações (German: Vier Jahreszeiten) from 2004, in Alhandra a marble bust of the swimmer Baptista Pereira (* 1921; † 1984) born there from 2006. In 2012, his statue Amor de Perdição was erected in Porto , based on the novel of the same name by Camilo Castelo Branco based.

His drawings, statues and busts can be seen, for example, in the following museum and collection locations: Castelo Branco (Museu Francisco Tavares Proença Júnior), Funchal, Covilhã (City Hall Collection and Beira Interior University Collection ), Horta, Azores (Bank Collection Caixa Económica Faialense), Washington, DC ( House of the Temple ), Paris (Banco Mello Collection) and Lisbon ( Banco Português de Negócios Collection ).

He illustrated several dozen books, including editions by Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, Maria Rosa Colaço, David Mourão-Ferreira , José Jorge Letria, Fernando Pessoa and Hugo Santos.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1981: Galeria e Escultura, Lisbon
  • 1983: Galeria do Casino, Estoril
  • 1983: Galeria Codilivro, Lisbon
  • 1983: Galeria São Mamede, Lisbon
  • 1984: Galeria Altamira, Lisbon
  • 1985: Galeria Quetzal, Funchal
  • 1986: Galeria Tempo, Lisbon
  • 1986: Galeria de S. Mamede, Lisbon
  • 1987: Galeria Multiface, Lisbon
  • 1988: Galeria Arte Vária, Coimbra
  • 1990: Magellan Gallery, Paris
  • 1991: União de Bancos Portugueses, Paris
  • 1995: Livraria-Galeria Verney, Oeiras
  • 1995: Galeria de Exposições Augusto Cabrita, Seixal
  • 1996: Espaço Chiado, Coimbra
  • 1996: Galeria Convosco, Lisbon
  • 1997: Galeria Cordeiros, Porto

Publications

As a co-author

  • Francisco Simões and David Mourão-Ferreira: O Corpo Iluminado. Editorial Presença, 1987.
  • Francisco Simões and David Mourão-Ferreira: Música da Cama. Editorial Presença, 1995.
  • Francisco Simões and Urbano Tavares Rodrigues: Benvinda e os Homens. Editorial Éter, 1996.
  • Francisco Simões and Afonso Praça: Desenhos Afrodisiacos e Receitas Eróticas. Editorial de Notícias, 1997.
  • Francisco Simões and António Prates: Fado. Prates, 1998.
  • Francisco Simões, Afonso Praça, Alice Vieira, Fernando Dacosta, Guilherme de Melo, Inês Pedrosa , Mário Ventura and Moita Flores: Os Sete Pecados Capitais. Editorial de Notícias, 1998.
  • Francisco Simões and Maria Aurora Carvalho Homem: Discurso Amoroso. Edição Campo das Letras, 2006.

Web links

Commons : Art by Francisco Simões  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As mulheres de Francisco Simoes . Article by Maria João Caetano from January 14, 2010 in the daily newspaper Diário de Notícias (Portuguese)
  2. ↑ Short biography of Francisco Simões ( Memento from November 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), written by Cristina Cruzeiro (Portuguese)
personal data
SURNAME Simoes, Francisco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES d'Almada, Francisco (exhibition name until 1987); ALMADA, Francisco (signature)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese sculptor and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Porto Brandão