Manuel Casimiro

Manuel Casimiro, 2012

The ovoid

Manuel Casimiro de Oliveira (born November 21, 1941 in Porto ) is a Portuguese painter , sculptor , designer and film director . He has spent a large part of his life abroad, especially in Nice . He had withdrawn there after being wounded during the Portuguese colonial war in Angola . He currently lives in Porto.

Life

Casimiro was born into a wealthy family. His father is the film director Manoel de Oliveira . After serving in the military and being wounded in the Angola War, Casimiro decided to devote himself entirely to art. After leaving Portugal to live abroad, mainly in Nice , he lived in "quasi-poverty" for many years. Here he made friends with Vincent Descombes , Jean-François Lyotard and Michel Butor . In 1978 he lived in New York City for a year , which was also where his first major collective exhibition was held. Selling some paintings enabled him to travel to some northern European countries. He also spent some time in Italy , particularly Venice . There he met and photographed Peggy Guggenheim at her foundation shortly before she died in 1979. This encounter should have a lasting impact on him.

The ovoid

Casimiro values ​​the idea inherent in the work of art. The ovoid and its use in procedures and other work provides a focus through which the work of art can be reevaluated and reconsidered. The artist himself rarely speaks about the ovoid and leaves it to the viewer to find meaning in the egg-shaped shape.

Exhibitions (selection)

Manuel Casimiro - To Paint the Idea, Macau (2014)

• 1978: The Cooper-Hewitt Museum , New York , exhibits a selection of works by Robert Motherwell , Douanne Michaels, David Hockney , Manuel Casimiro, and many others. The joint exhibition takes place in New York , Tokyo , London , Paris , and Berlin . Oedipus Explaining the Enigma , an intervention by Manuel Casimiro, is shown.
• 1980: Manuel Casimiro represents France at various international events, such as B. at the DAAD in Berlin , Germany for the exhibition Nice in Berlin , or 1981 in São Paulo , Brazil , in the “Museum of Modern Art” of the University of São Paulo .
• 1986: In Nice , France , Casimiro contributes to the Peindre, Photographier exhibition alongside Christian Boltanski , Louis James, Annette Messager and Robert Rauschenberg . On this occasion, Casimiro decides to make two interventions on two oriental paintings in the Jules Cheret Museum, painting ovoids with erasable paint.
• 1988: The Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis in Porto exhibits a collection of works on Portuguese myths The Ghosts of King Sebastian . This exhibition will also be shown in Bari , Italy , in 2006.
• 1996/1997: The Museu Serralves in Porto organizes a retrospective of the works of Manuel Casimiro with the title Manuel Casimiro 1964-1996 under the direction of Jean-Hubert Martin .
• 2002: As part of the opening celebrations of Salamanca - Capital of Culture 2002 , two exhibitions are organized: Bridges and The Imaginary Museum .
• 2003: In an exhibition called Playing with Scales , the Galician Center of Contemporary Art shows photographs that go back to 1972 and are part of City's work . These pictures are juxtaposed with newer works by other artists and thus illustrate their relevance, even though they are over 30 years old.
• 2004: On the occasion of an exhibition entitled Chocolate , Manuel Casimiro publishes a collection of texts with the title Neither old nor modern . In one of the articles, Casimiro sharply criticized the development of the financial system that the art market has become.
• 2009: The Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon exhibits Caprichos , a series of interventions by Manuel Casimiro on Goya's work. Michael Butor contributes some texts about Goya and Manuel Casimiro's work. They are published alongside other texts by Manuel Casimiro to illustrate the aims of these interventions. The attempt to decipher the artist's trademark, the ovoid, will also be attempted.
• 2014: The “Cultural Affairs Bureau of Macao SAR Government” organizes the exhibition “To Paint the Idea - Manuel Casimiro” at the Tap Seac Gallery in Macau .

His exhibition "To Paint the Idea - Manuel Casimiro" opened on March 8, 2014 and will be on display until May 3, 2014 at the Tap Seac Gallery, Macau .

literature

• Caprichos , Michel Butor [1] (2008) ISBN 978-972-8955-87-8
• Manuel Casimiro , Fátima Lambert (2006) ISBN 972-21-1712-2
• Nem antigo nem moderno , Manuel Casimiro (2005) Dep. Legal 229419/05
• Pontes. Manuel Casimiro (2001) ISBN 972-8451-21-0
• Manuel Casimiro (1998) ISBN 972-9402-55-8
• O Jardim Pintado . Três Montanhas e Cinco Montes (1996) [2]
• Manuel Casimiro , José Augusto França (1996)
• Manuel Casimiro. Retrospectiva 1964-1996 Museum of Contemporary Art of Serralves, Porto (1996).
• Miscellaneous Texts I & II: Aesthetics and Theory of Art & Contemporary Artists , Jean-François Lyotard, Leuven University Press, [3] (2012) ISBN 9789058678867

Web links

• Homepage of Manuel Casimiro

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CkS Artport blog , text by António Cerveira Pinto.
2. ^ German Academic Exchange Service
3. ^ Museum of Contemporary Art of Serralves, Porto .
4. ↑ António Cerveira Pinto, Agustina Bessa Luís, Bernardo Pinto de Almeida, Carlos França, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Eduardo Lourenço, Eduardo Paz Barroso, Giulio Giorello, Jean -ois Lyotard, Jean-Hubert Martin, Jean-Noell Vuarnet, João Pinharanda, José Augusto França, José Régio, Manuel-Casimiro, Michel Butor, Pedro Prista, Pierre Restany, Raphael Monticelli, Raquel Henriques da Silva, René Prédal, Vincent Descombes: Manuel Casimiro, Rectrospective 1964/1996 . Serralves, Oporto, Portugal 1996.
5. ^ Agustina Bessa Luís, José-Luís Molinuevo, João Fernandes: Pontes-Manuel Casimiro . Centro Português de Photographia, 2001, ISBN 972-8451-21-0 .
6. ↑ Manuel Casimiro: Nem antigo nem moderno . Gémeo, 2004. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed April 29, 2019). 
7. ↑ Michel Butor, Manuel Casimiro: Caprichos . Tinta da China / Museo Berardo, Lisbon 2009.