Helena Almeida
Helena Maria de Castro Neves de Almeida (* 1934 in Lisbon ; † September 25, 2018 in Sintra ) was a Portuguese photographer and conceptual artist .
Career
Almeida was born as the daughter of the sculptor Leopoldo de Almeida (1898–1975). Her youth was shaped by the political conditions in the Estado Novo . She studied at the Lisbon Art School . After completing her painting course in 1955, she married the architect Artur Rosa, with whom she had a daughter, Joana Rosa, who also became an artist. In 2005 she represented Portugal at the Venice Biennale.
Untitled by Helena Almeida (1977) from the holdings of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
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Almeida often combined painting and sculpture in her work, for example by adding three-dimensional elements such as horse hair. Traditional components of painting such as canvas, stretcher frames and colors become the central content of the picture. Almeida's visual compositions for space and line are characterized by a high degree of complexity. A recurring concern of her artistic work was the examination of the relationship between artist and image, for example by thematizing her own presence as an artist when painting over photographs with the primary colors red and blue or by depicting her own body, which is deliberately not staged as a self-portrait in choreographed poses.
Awards
- 1964: Gulbenkian Foundation grant
- 1967: 1st prize for drawing from the University of Coimbra
- 1972: Soquil Prize for Applied Arts
- 2003: Grand Officer of the Order of the Infante Dom Henrique
Exhibitions
- 1967: Buchholz Gallery, Lisbon
- 1972: Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes , Lisbon
- 1982/2005: 40./51. Biennale di Venezia , Venice
- 2004: The Drawing Center , New York
- 2007/2010 Galéria Helga de Alvear , Madrid
- 2009: Fundación Telefónica , Madrid
- 2009: Kettle's Yard , Cambridge
- 2010–2019: Exhibition tour Feminist Avantgarde of the Verbund Collection , Vienna
- 2013: Fundação Leal Rios , Lisbon
- 2013/2014: BES Arte e Finança , Lisbon
Publications
- Helena Almeida. Exhibition catalog Galerie Erika + Otto Friedrich, Bern 1978.
- Helena Almeida. 14 xaneiro - 19 March 2000 , Santiago de Compostela 2000.
- Helena Almeida. Inside Me. Exhibition catalog Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Cambridge, 2009.
- Andar, abraçar / Walking, holding . Exhibition catalog. BES Arte e Finança, Lisbon 2013.
documentary
- Sylvain Bergère: Artists up close. Helena Almeida - painter (30 min, France, 2011)
literature
- Therese Dann: Biographies of the Artists - Helena Almeida . In: Gabriele Schor (Ed.): Feminist Avant-garde: Art of the 1970s from the Verbund Collection . Prestel, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7913-5627-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Isabel Salema, Lucinda Canelas: Morreu Helena Almeida, uma artista vibrante com o seu tempo. In: Público . September 26, 2018. Retrieved September 26, 2018 (Portuguese).
- ^ Arte y tecnología. Colección Fotografía contemporánea. Helena almeida. www.fundacion.telefonica.com, June 2003, archived from the original on February 6, 2010 ; Retrieved February 14, 2010 (Spanish).
- ^ Therese Dann: Biographies of the Artists . In: Gabriele Schor (Ed.): Feminist Avantgarde. 1970s art. Verbund Collection, Vienna . Prestel, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7913-5627-3 , pp. 490 .
- ^ Artist up close: Helena Almeida - painter. In: ard.de. April 17, 2011, accessed September 27, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Almeida, Helena |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Almeida, Helena Maria de Castro Neves de (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese photographer and conceptual artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lisbon |
| DATE OF DEATH | 25th September 2018 |
| Place of death | Sintra |