Manuel Carmo

Manuel Carmo (2007)

Jorge Manuel do Carmo Pereira de Almeida (* 1958 in Lisbon ; † 2015 ) was a visual artist and author 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 the management of various multinational companies. In the 1980s he decided to take the painting course at the Ar.Co (Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual) in Lisbon. Since then he has devoted himself exclusively to painting , sculpture and writing.

activities

Since 1985 he has exhibited his works at countless exhibitions and conferences in Portugal and abroad. In 2000 it received an honorable mention at the first ever "Bienal de Pintura".

Manuel Carmo was a consultant to the “ European Museum Forum ” in Portugal and consultant on international projects of the “Associação Portuguesa de Empresas com Museus - Aporem”, an association to which seventeen Portuguese museums with international projects belong.

Since January 2007 he has been responsible for the cultural and content management of the “Museu da Água de Coimbra” and was also general director of the art publishing house AABA.

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

In 2004, the production company Mandala released a DVD with the latest work by Manuel Carmo. In 2005 the Portuguese public television broadcaster “Televisão Pública Portuguesa RTP” produced a thirty-minute documentary film about the life and work of the artist in collaboration with the University Universidade Aberta , which was broadcast on RTP and RTP Internacional.

Manuel Carmo was so far the only Portuguese painter who was invited to present a project at the 2006 UNESCO World Conference on “Cultural Education” which he called “Let's Art!”. Sanchez Bravo , President of the Spanish UNESCO Commission, described his painting as "a new sober and harmonious-musical form of transcending reality".

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

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

Manuel Carmo has been regularly invited to give lectures on art, in particular within the framework of UNESCO and the projects “Collect and Share” and “Long Life Learning” as part of the EU educational programs “Socrates” and “Grundtvig”.

Exhibitions

It is represented in various foundations and museums, including according to the New York Arts Annual Catalog 2007:

• Fundação António Prates
• Michetti Foundation
• European Museum Forum
• International Museum of Graphic Art
• Mumi Museum
• Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Madeira
• Museu da Água da Epal
• City of Chaves
• City of Bragança
• City of Lisbon
• Mundial Confiança
• Universitária Editora
• 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 das Comunicações
• Museu das Comunicações
• Centro Cultural de Avilez
• Museu da Água de Coimbra
• Collection of Queen Fabiola of Belgium
• Collection by Chico Buarque de Holanda
• In the collection of Fausto Bertinotti, President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies

Publications

Published books on the subject of "art":

• "Aquae Liberae Triumphalis Ingressus", Editorial Hugin, 2004
• “Um 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", Edições AABA 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jorge Manuel do Carmo Pereira de Almeida (1958-2015), maçom afável accessed on March 28, 2019