PATIENCE, CONCENTRATION, LOVE LUCAS ALMEIDA 07.07

WHO gallery
PATIENCE, CONCENTRATION, LOVE
LUCAS ALMEIDA 07.07 09.03’11
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OPENING: JUL 7, 6PM - 9PM ‘Ninfa 2008’* wine will be served, from Sociedade Agrícola João Teodósio M. Barbosa & Filhos.
PATIENCE, CONCENTRATION, LOVE
The exhibition ‘Patience, Concentration, Love’, by Lucas Almeida, opening on July 7th 2011 at WHO Gallery, Bairro Alto, will
reflect the artist’s course before, during and after completing an internship at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, in
New York (2009-2010).
Designated by the artist as the essential ingredients for his artistic production, ‘Patience, Concentration, Love’ will be
composed by silkscreen works, etchings and drawings, revealing a contemplative but also humorous spirit, given the artist’s
strong connection to comics. Of a delicate and thorough trace, the works portray almost dreamlike, imagined worlds,
composed by image sequences that give place to infinite narratives, where figures emerge from forms, forms emerge from
figures.
LUCAS ALMEIDA
Lucas Almeida (b. 1981) obtained a degree in Fine Arts from Escola Superior de Arte e Design, Caldas da Rainha (2005), and
in 2010 finished the INOV-ART internship at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, in New York. Among the most recent
exhibitions in which the artist has participated, one highlights: ‘Heads up’ (group show), Kathy Caraccio Printing Studio, New
York; ‘Print Saloon’ (group show), ‘The Mews Project Space’, London (2010); ‘Perpetuamente Novo’ (solo exhibition), Galeria
Municipal de Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal (2009). In 2006 he was distinguished with the Prémio Jovens Criadores (Young
Creators Prize) in the Comics category, having also participated in the São Paulo International Short Film Festival and in 2005
in the Short Ends Film Festival, London.
Back in Portugal, the artist continues his production of silkscreen books and the publication of his own comics book ‘O Hábito
faz o Monstro’ (‘The Habit Makes the Monster’) - that already has ten years of existence -, is developing a hand-drawn animated
film, and aims to return to New York to complete a Masters degree in Drawing.
AWARDS:
2009
- INOV-ART grant, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop internship, New York
2006
- Prémio Jovens Criadores (Young Creators Prize) - Comics category
*ABOUT NINFA 2008, Sociedade Agrícola João Teodósio M. Barbosa & Filhos:
With the Serra dos Candeeiros slope as a background, Ninfa wine is the product of a harvest among friends. The grapes
are produced under a regime of integrated production, with special attention to the environment, and harvested by family
and friends in order for the consumer to receive a unique and special product. Of a lively ruby color and with berry aromas
and touches of mint, it has a balanced after-taste that accompanies very well soft rind cheeses and bread and garlic game
sausages.
WHO gallery
Rua Luz Soriano, 71 - Bairro Alto
1200-246 Lisboa - Portugal
www.galeria.who.pt
www.who.pt
Schedule:
Tue to Fri 10am-7pm | Sat 3pm-7pm
Or by appointment:
T. +351 21 324 27 60
Support:
Be responsible. Drink with moderation.
WHO gallery
PATIENCE, CONCENTRATION, LOVE
LUCAS ALMEIDA 07.07 09.03’11
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“
This work emerged following a trip to New York, after having completed an internship at a printmaking techniques studio,
the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, when I had the opportunity to return and work there as an artist, instead of an
intern. It occurred to me to surprise the people with whom I had worked with and had befriended. When I arrived, they had
saved a pile of paper and copper, scraps from the printshop since they had noticed my course as an intern, as a gleaner of
scraps of 200 gram pure cotton paper, long paper strips sometimes 4 inches wide, destined to be trash. These served to build
a book I entitled ‘Pocket Sea’, and it consists of a series of watercolors where I painted the sea from memory. It helped me
soothe the longing I felt for Portugal and for the sea, as I travelled daily to the center of Manhattan, by subway. Having the
care to save all those scraps for me to re-utilize, left me with a need to reciprocate the gesture. Back in America and having
to deal with the dollar again, lead me to draw a bill. One of the copper strips, so kindly given to me by my colleagues, had the
exact width of a dollar bill. As I prepared the plate, I thought about what is truly valuable and strictly necessary to artistic
creation and production, specially in the etching and lithography territory. I concluded: patience, concentration and love.
These are the principal elements to execute whichever creative activity. I entitled the bill ‘Bill of Wisdom’, for as I prepared the
support for the work, it became clear that money, besides its symbolic value, is empty of content. The experience of technical
and creative processes, and the simple need to create, are far more rewarding; they allow one to learn, to give, to receive and
”
to be surprised through the process.
Lucas Almeida, 2011
Author’s copy, silkscreen print of the work ‘Bill of Wisdom’, 2011.
WHO gallery
Rua Luz Soriano, 71 - Bairro Alto
1200-246 Lisboa - Portugal
www.galeria.who.pt
www.who.pt
Schedule:
Tue to Fri 10am-7pm | Sat 3pm-7pm
Or by appointment:
T. +351 21 324 27 60
For more informations:
Aviva Obst/ [email protected]
T. +351 91 252 86 79
WHO agency & gallery
ABOUT WHO galLerY
WHO, a pioneer Creative Talents Agency in Portugal and with about 12 years of experience as a creatives agent, initiated a new
cycle in 2009 by expanding its brand to WHO gallery, an autonomous space, whose mission reflects on the construction of a
permanent dialogue between the creative community and the public. A space open to dialogue, experimentation, differentiation,
reflection, trends and knowledge. The artists WHO gallery receives accuse a strong creative pulse in Illustration, Photography,
Fashion, Media, Visual Arts, Design, Fine Arts and Creative Writing. The space aims to represent the multiple forms each one
of these categories may assume through an annual exhibition calendar, marked by the exhibition of emerging and established
artists, in a direct and indirect confrontation, reflecting the best creative and innovative work done in Portugal, and beyond.
April 2010 WHO received the 1st ‘Meios & Publicidade’ (Mediums & Publicity) Design Prize in the category of Self-promotion.
This prize concedes to WHO Agency the recognition of WHO gallery as a place of promotion of that which is WHO’s mission - to
promote a network of talents transversal to the arts.
EXHIBITIONS
64-BITS [june’11]
Sim by S amsung
A ndré Sier / fine arts / intermedia
supported by
BLIND DATE [april’11]
a colaboration w/ moda L isboa
Group show/ visual arts / illustration
MOSTRA ÚNIQA [february’11]
INPRESS [march’10]
Hélder Oliveira / editorial illustration
UNDER 50€ - Selected by Dino Alves [december’09]
Dino A lves / design / fashion + installation
DUB Lab [october’09]
DubVideo Connection / interactive media
ÚniQ a academy/ visual arts / illustration
ART DOENS´T CHANGE ANYTHING, YOU DO [july’09]
P edro L ino / animation + illustration
ESCALPE [december’10]
P edro Z amith / visual arts / illustration
IN AN ABSOLUT WORLD [june’09]
NON DOMINS [september’10]
P edro Valdez Cardoso / fine arts / sculpture
(w/ colaboration of P edro S oares Neves /Uber)
S ofia Vilarinho / design /fashion
Sílvia P rudêncio / design / graphic
P edro M aia / fine arts / media
Nuno Neto / illustration / collage
M ário A mbrózio / fine arts / photography
for delta
NEW MIRROR ILLUSTRATION [may’10]
Luís Dourado / illustration / collage
M aria Bicas P ereira / fine arts / sculpture
Mónica S antos / animation + illustration
Rithika Merchant/ contemporary illustration
Rosa Baptista / illustration + intervention
X avier A lmeida / illustration + installation
WHO gallery
Rua Luz Soriano, 71 - Bairro Alto
1200-246 Lisboa - Portugal
www.galeria.who.pt
www.who.pt
for absolut
Schedule:
Tue to Fri 10am-7pm | Sat 3pm-7pm
Or by appointment:
T. +351 21 324 27 60
For more informations:
Aviva Obst/ [email protected]
T. +351 91 252 86 79