Patience, concentration, Love - creative talents agency gallery

who gallery
is ple ased to invite you
to the opening of
‘Patience, Concentr ation, Love’,
by Lucas Almeida,
Thursday July 7th,
at 6PM.
“
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
Silkscreen print copy of the work mentioned above.
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
WHO AGENCY & GALLERY
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.
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.
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.
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.
*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.
FOR mORE informaTION: Aviva Obst/ [email protected]
T. +351 91 252 86 79
WHO gallery
Rua Luz Soriano, 71 - Bairro Alto
1200-246 Lisboa - Portugal
www.galeria.who.pt
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Schedule:
Tue to Fri 10am-7pm | Sat 3pm-7pm
Or by appointment:
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