Jorge Nesbitt was born in 1972 and lives and works in Lisbon.

He has exhibited his work regularly since 1999 and, since then, has taken part in several solo and group exhibitions.

His work is held in a number of important collections, including the Fundação Carmona e Costa Collection, the Ar.Co. Lisbon Collection, the Pedro Cabrita Reis Collection, and the Fundação Joana Vasconcelos Collection, among others.

Exhibition

In this exhibition, Jorge Nesbitt presented a series of recent works distinguished by their depiction of icons traditionally explored by artists over centuries of art history.

The 13 works on display were, for the most part, large-format still lifes in the Renaissance style, through which the artist has, over the course of his career, been assembling visual elements that evoke the idea of a Cabinet de Curiosités, thus creating vertical and horizontal compositions which, through the contrast between the intense colours assigned to the chosen motifs and the deeply black backgrounds, produce an unmistakable sense of spatial depth.

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Catarina Leitão was born in Stuttgart in 1970.

She is an artist whose work is structured around drawing, sculpture, installation and books. She has individual exhibitions in the Berardo collection and in the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian. Her awards and residencies include The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 2009, Center for Book Arts, 2007, Triangle Arts, 2006, Sharpe Foundation, 2004, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 2003, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2001, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and Fundação Luso-Americana, 1997-1999.

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Catarina Leitão presented 25 works, including watercolours, drawings, field notebooks and photographs, which integrate a series that the artist has been working on since 2012.

The idea inherent to the exhibition was initiated in 2013 with the work Atelier Portátil, and remains in permanent update. Each object within this Atelier Portátil is in itself a work, whether absolutely constructed by the artist, as is the case of the Escala de Verdes, a roller with a gradient of greens that assists the painter in choosing the necessary tone, or added to the cart for convenience in the task, such as a magnifying glass, a clipboard that is also a lid, or a folding stool.

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Jorge Santos was born in Silves in 1974.

He is a multidisciplinary artist and has presented work in several countries such as the UK, France, Spain, Portugal, and Brazil. Jorge Santos is represented in several public and private collections such as MAAT and La Petite Escalère. More recently he received a scholarship from Le Petit Escalère in, France.

Exhibition

In an artistic career that includes several individual and group exhibitions, Jorge Santos’ exhibition brings together more than 30 works produced between 2014 and 2018.

The works exhibited at Abreu Advogados’ headquarters represented flowers, foliage or trees, elements often linked to human constructions, and that made evident the relationship between interior and exterior space.

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Teresa Palma Rodrigues was born in Lisbon in 1978, where she currently lives and works.

She exhibits regularly since 2000 and has held several individuals exhibitions, mainly while represented by Galeria Pedro Serrenho.

In 2015 she exhibited at Sala do Veado (MUHNAC), “Seguindo a Espera de um Vazio”. She has participated in several collective exhibitions in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Ireland (Link Culturefest, 2012), Brazil and Mozambique. Highlights include his participation in “POVOpeople”, at Museu da Electricidade (2010) and in “Ciclo da Fotografia Portuguesa” (2013), at MuMA (Curitiba, Brazil).

Exhibition

The exhibition presented Zona V (of Vago), more than 50 works, between drawing and photography, which integrate the result of the artist’s research for her PhD in Painting at the Faculdade de Belas Artes de Lisboa. The exhibition is Teresa Palma Rodrigues’ reflection about an empty terrain that she could observe from her home and atelier. The exhibited works represent fragments of the herbarium that she was building during her visits to that inhospitable and uninhabited terrain.

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Urbano was born on the island of São Miguel, Azores, in 1959 and currently lives and works in Lisbon and the Azores.

He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, between 1995 and 1997 and participated in the Kaleidoscope Program: The Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm and Tavira Print Workshop, in 1998. In 1998-99 he decorated the Chapel of the Hospital do Divino Espírito Santo in Ponta Delgada, Azores. Since 1997 he is represented by Galeria 111, and since 2000 he collaborates with Galeria Fonseca Macedo in Ponta Delgada.

Exhibition

The artist Urbano presented As Flores e as Cinzas, in a set of more than 30 works, made between 1997 and 2019, which according to the artist “reflect a moment of terrible and unacceptable destruction but which is a metaphor not only for my work but also for life itself.”

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Isabel Sabino was born in Lisbon in 1955.

Secondary school teacher (1976-1982); teacher of Fine Arts (ESBAL/FBAUL) since 1982, currently full professor. Member of the research centre Cieba (FBAUL), i2ads (FBAUP), ANBA (Academia Nacional de Belas Artes), the National Society of Fine Arts and Cooperative Diferença.

She has exhibited painting, drawing and other artistic projects since 1977 in group shows and individually since 1985, also participating in workshops and artistic residencies. She has also published dozens of texts on painting and visual arts.

Exhibition

Works from several series are presented in this exhibition. Four Seasons, Ela and Dilúvio.

Four Seasons is a series consisting of twelve paintings – “…as if for 12 months, they fulfill the totality of a cycle organized in 4 groups (4 seasons), each one with 3 paintings. In the genesis of the fundamental images there are 4 photographs and 4 movies. In each of these groups of 3 paintings, a photographic image functions as a cliché of the season, giving origin to 3 close versions. The digital manipulation to which the photos are subjected fractures them into two falsely symmetrical halves, as if in negative, reflection or distancing ghost, then leaving freer formal and pictorial occurrences to manifest themselves, to metaphorise the final synthesis”. Another set of works emerges, She, all with female names or heroines from films and which point more towards an elaborate research in the sense of fiction and storytelling that we can find in her written texts. In the series Dilúvio the artist presents a series of pieces that, out of the need to metaphorise personal situations, made real images that disturbed her and that wander through the political and the poetic.

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António Faria, artist-designer from Lisbon, exhibits regularly since the 90’s.

With training in Visual Arts (AR.CO), Graphic Design (IADE), his work has been developed mainly in the fields of drawing-painting, design and Illustration, with incursions in sound experimentation.

His work is already doubly recognised at the Art Olympia Award (Tokyo) and he has visited countries such as Spain, Italy, England, Hungary, France. His most recent individual exhibition took place in 2020 – O Desenho. Força que Nasce do Silêncio at the Côa Museum and O Elogio da Melancolia at the National Museum of Contemporary Art and the biodiversity gallery of the Museum of Natural History and Science of the U.Porto.

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Abreu Advogados, in partnership with Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, presents works by the artist António Faria.

Already in its seventh exhibition, the programme developed within this scope and focusing on nature as a theme, exhibits a set of works previously exhibited at Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea and at Museu do Côa.

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Pedro Vaz, graduated in Painting from Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa (2006). Lives and works in Lisbon.

In 2021, he presented the individual exhibition, “Num único acorde”, at CAB – Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain.

His participations in the following group exhibitions stand out: Loops.Expanded 2021, no MNAC – Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisboal; LA TORMENTA, 2020, Centro Cultural Teopanzolco, Cuernavaca, Mexico; O Olhar Divergente, 2019, Arquipélago – Centro de Artes Contemporâneas, Azores; Depois do choque, os trópicos, 2018, Galeria Luísa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil; Second Nature, 2018, The Kreeger Museum, Washington D.C., United States; Second Nature, 2016, MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia, Lisbon.

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Abreu Advogados, in partnership with Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, presents a series of works by artist Pedro Vaz.

Pedro Vaz, already in his eighth exhibition, the programme dedicated to nature as a theme, presents a set of works that were made specifically for the Abreu Advogados’ head office building.

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Cristina Ataíde was born in Viseu, in 1951. She currently lives in Carnaxide, in the municipality of Oeiras, and works in Lisbon. She graduated in Sculpture from ESBAL, in Lisbon, and attended the Equipment Design Course at ESBAL, also in Lisbon.

She was production director of Sculpture and Design at Madein, Alenquer, from 1987 to 1996, where she worked with Anish Kapoor, Michelangelo Pistolleto, Keit Sonnier, Matt Mullican, among others. She was a guest lecturer at the Universidade Lusófona in Lisbon from 1997 to 2012.

She has exhibited regularly since 1984 – large installations and site-specific work occupy an important place in his shows. His work, often done while travelling, transits between sculpture and drawing, as well as photography and video. The concern with nature and its preservation is a constant in her work and research. She is represented by the following galleries: Galeria Belo-Galsterer, Lisbon; Andrea Rehder, Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil; Galeria Ybakatu, Curitiba, Brazil; Galeria Quatto, Leiria; Galeria Magda Bellotti, Madrid, Spain.

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Abreu Advogados, in partnership with Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, presents a set of works by the artist Cristina Ataíde.

The ninth exhibition of this programme, dedicated to the theme of nature, reveals itself as a journey to the creative universe of the artist, in several media, such as drawing, watercolour, painting, fleeting and sculpture.

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Domingos Loureiro is an artist, professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and researcher at the Research Institute in Art, Design and Society. Coordinator of the Painting Section at FBAUP, responsible for several academic publications on landscape, painting and art, he has organized several national and international events on artistic research and practice. He has held numerous exhibitions in Portugal and abroad, being represented in public and private collections in countries such as USA, Spain, Germany, Ireland, England, Japan, France, Belgium, Brazil, among others.

He exhibits regularly since 2001, having received several art awards. Recently, he received the International Art Award of Guarda (2021), and Territórios de Pedro awards (2021).

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Abreu Advogados, in partnership with Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, presents a series of works by artist Domingos Loureiro.

Already in its tenth exhibition, the programme dedicated to nature as a theme, presents a set of works specially made for this exhibition.

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Sofia Leitão, artist, lives and works in Porto.

She graduated in Sculpture in the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto in 2005 (FBAUP) and in Drawing in the Art School of Porto (ESAP) in 2000.

Recent exhibitions: Room 22 at the Colégio das Artes in Coimbra; exhibition Beyond the Mirror at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Museum in Lisbon; festival Desemcaminharte-Arte Pública in Alto Minho (2017) at the exhibition Portugal, Portugueses; Museu Afro-Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil (2016); exhibition Da Cartografia do Poder aos Itinerários do Saber, Museu Afro-Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil (2014); exhibition Casa Ocupada, Casa da Cerca-Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Almada, Portugal; exhibition Negras Paixões at Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, Portugal (2011); exhibition Amália, Coração Independente, Museu Berardo, Lisbon and at the Portuguese Pavilion, Hangart7, Salzburg, Austria in 2009.

His work can be found in the public collections of the Manuel de Brito Foundation and the PLMJ Foundation in Lisbon, Figueiredo Ribeiro in Abrantes, MG in Alvito, Ilídio Pinho Foundation in Porto, as well as in private collections in Portugal, Spain, Austria, Belgium and the United States of America.

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Abreu Advogados, in partnership with Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, presents a series of works by artist Sofia Leitão.

Already in its eleventh exhibition, the programme dedicated to nature as a theme presents a set of works that were made specifically for the headquarters building of Abreu Advogados.

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Barbara Wildenboer lives and works in Cape Town.

She is represented by galleries in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and London. She is also represented in Lisbon and Luanda by THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE Art Gallery.

In 2007 she obtained a master’s in fine art (with distinction) from the Michaelis School of Art at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. The title of her Master’s thesis was Present Absence / Absent Presence, and the research was concerned with aspects of melancholy, loss, and longing as is embodied by the photographic medium. Before that, she completed a BA(Ed) with majors in English literature, Psychology, and Pedagogics at the University of Pretoria in 1996, followed by a Bachelor of Visual Arts from UNISA in 2003. From 2009-2016 she worked as the head of the Photography Department at the Cityvarsity College of Creative Arts, where she lectured Theory & Discourse and History of Photography. In 2011 she was nominated and subsequently selected as one of the top 20 finalists for the Sovereign African Arts Award, for which she received the Public Choice Prize. She was also among the top 20 finalists for the Thamy Mnyele Fine Art Awards (South Africa) in 2021. In addition to that, she has been awarded several international residencies, such as the Unesco-Aschberg residency (Jordan, 2006), the Al Mahatta residency (Palestine, 2009), the Red De Residencias Artisticas Local (Colombia, 2011), the Rimbun Dahan artist residency (Penang, Malaysia, 2013), L’Ateleier Sur Seine (Fontainebleau, France, 2017) and Hannacc (Barcelona, Spain, 2018).

Exhibition

For the twelfth edition of the ongoing exhibition programme dedicated to Nature, Abreu Advogados, in partnership with Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, presents a series of works by the artist Barbara Wildenboer.

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The Brazilian artist based in Lisbon works mainly between drawing and painting, as well as exploring video and installation as means of expanding his artistic practice. Cássio Markowski composes conceptual images that explore the poetics of visual language, creating a universe in which the oneiric relationship between human beings, fauna and flora predominates, the latter as re-signification and healing. The artist’s production encompasses a process of documentation on different socio-cultural aspects of Afro-Brazilian history and the African diaspora. This approach is based on a constant search through archives, image databases or old family albums.

Markowski’s visual universe, simultaneously autobiographical and fictional, political and poetic, fuses his own personal memories with collective experiences and traumas.

Concerned with questions of cultural identity and almost lost traditions, Markowski’s work emphasises the tenuous remaining links between past and present, between history and fiction. In this context, the artist has a distinctive approach where the beauty, elegance and delicacy of his compositions intertwine with concerns linked to socio-political tensions and dynamics.

Graduated in Plastic Arts from the Arts Centre of the Santa Catarina State University (Brazil), he also concluded the masters in Research and Creation in Arts and Performing Arts and Sciences from the University of the Basque Country (Spain). After also having lived and worked as a set designer and teacher in the Basque Country and as an illustrator in Poland he is currently working and living in Almada Portugal, where he is represented by the gallery This Is Not a White Cube in Lisbon.

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For the twelfth edition of the ongoing program of exhibitions dedicated to nature, Abreu Advogados, in partnership with Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, presents a series of works by the Lisbon-based Brazilian artist, Cassio Markowski.

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For the thirteenth edition of its programme of exhibitions dedicated to nature, Abreu Advogados, in partnership with Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, is presenting a set of works by Brazilian photographer Pedro Lobo.

The ecological concerns that emerged in the 1960s and up to the present day are expressed in various cultural, social and artistic movements. Most of them believe in the transformative and beneficial power of returning to contact with the earth, of renewing a multidimensional relationship with the natural environment of our existence, that is, the vast outdoor spaces.

Beyond the increasingly disastrous information related to the current ecological crisis, we can observe various aesthetic and artistic commitments aimed at awakening a certain awe and sacredness, to cultivate a sense of the marvellous as well as the ability to connect deeply with all living forces through imagination, emotion and empathy.

With this photographic series of landscapes and natural elements, captured in various latitudes, including Brazil, Portugal, France and the United Kingdom, Pedro Lobo expresses a conscious interaction with the earth, with its manifestations and spontaneous phenomena, movements and modulations of light. Through his eyes and lens, trees, branches, leaves, water and land surfaces become places of meditation, introspection and self-knowledge. As such, they appear to us as potential compasses for visions, inscriptions and subjective frameworks.

As autonomous subjects, vulnerable and poetic icons, trees and landscapes have been part of Lobo’s artistic production since the beginning of his career in the 1970s. The search for traces, impressions and marks left by humans seems to be a horizontal aspect that permeates all his visual work and the diversity of his series, whether they are captured in rural or urbanised spaces, serene or restless, wide or narrow.

By placing his images as traps to capture and involve the viewer, Lobo subtly addresses complex themes through the sense of silence and sober beauty he chooses as a visual strategy. In this way, the artist indirectly evokes issues of environmental degradation, drought and deforestation, but without exploring the graphic and depressing dimensions of such realities.

In this specific selection of images realised for Abreu, Lobo tends towards a more abstract, enigmatic and dreamlike visual language, giving the landscapes a captivating dimension. With these characteristics combined with the play of light, textures and colours, with the effects of duplication and symmetry, juxtaposition and multiplication, or blurring and weaving, the images convey a strong sense of presence and rhythm, thus contributing, in their imaginative way, to “mapping us back to the world”.

Exhibition

For the thirteenth edition of the ongoing exhibition programme dedicated to nature, Abreu Advogados, in partnership with Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, is presenting a series of works by the artist Pedro Lobo

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Sofia Arez brings the enigmatic kingdom of fungi to life in the twenty-one paintings presented in Symbiosis, as part of Abreu Advogados’ programme of exhibitions dedicated to nature, in partnership with Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa.

The delicate watercolour recordings of the species found by the artist are akin to scientific illustration, attracting our gaze and interest in the diversity of shapes, colours and textures discovered, as well as contributing to a greater understanding of this little-known universe, in a continuous work of cataloguing their respective habitats – where they grow, whether you find them on leaves, in the ground, on rocks or under trees. From the silence of walks to the observation of the landscape and nature, she draws our attention to how such experiences – and these fantastic beings – affect us. “In the contemplation of the smallest and most insignificant things, from which we can find a fascination with form.”

Some seem to come from another planet, or out of our own minds, from the effects we get when we close our eyes. Kaleidoscopic images expand into mandala-like shapes, magic circles and fairy rings, fascinating the observers. The mandala symbolises unity, while the ornaments and organic designs produce meditative images and consequent effects of a sensory experience. Also acting as a philosophy, the artist assimilates pause and mindfulness into her artistic practice after learning about mycology.

Sofia Arez’s work is close to the illustrations of English botanical artist Margaret Mee (1909-1988) in the lightness of its many layers and striking details, in the frequent walks through the forests – where Sofia goes in search of mushrooms – and in the way both artists’ work contributing therefore to the development of research into the uncertain and threatened future of our planet, integrating respect and understanding of the great power of those that heal, feed or sometimes possess a deadly poison.

Exhibition

For the thirteenth edition of the ongoing exhibition programme dedicated to nature, Abreu Advogados, in partnership with Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, is presenting a series of works by the artist Sofia Arez.

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Paulo Brighenti is a contemporary artist who intensely explores the dialogue between human beings and nature. His artistic production is characterised by a delicate and thought-provoking approach to natural elements, incorporating themes such as landscape, fauna, flora and the organic forces that permeate the world around us. Working mostly in painting and drawing, Brighenti transforms these elements into visual narratives that go beyond simple representation, evoking an atmosphere of introspection and transcendence. Brighenti’s relationship with nature is not limited to a literal representation. In his work, nature takes on a symbolic and poetic character, referring to a spiritual and emotional dimension. Through the materiality of colours, textures and shapes, he creates compositions that seem to capture the fleeting and fickle essence of the natural world, inviting the viewer to immerse themselves in a sensory and subjective
experience.

This reading dialogues with the work of other artists who also explore nature in a profound way. One example is the work of Andy Goldsworthy, a British artist known for his sculptures and installations made directly in nature. Like Brighenti, Goldsworthy deals with the impermanence and ephemerality of nature. Another parallel can be drawn with the work of Giuseppe Penone, an Italian artist associated with the Arte Povera movement, who investigates the relationship between the human body and the natural environment. Brighenti also shares affinities with Portuguese artists dedicated to the representation of nature, such as the painter Graça Morais. Although they have different styles, both explore the deep connection between human beings and the natural world, often addressing issues of identity, memory and territory.

For this exhibition, a set of watercolours on paper was selected, as well as two large oil paintings on canvas, which use nature as a starting point for aesthetic, philosophical and existential reflections. The poetic and sensory approach they represent contributes to expanding the possibilities of representing the natural world in contemporary art, establishing connections with the work of other creators who, like him, find in nature an inexhaustible source of inspiration and questioning.

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For the thirteenth edition of the ongoing exhibition programme dedicated to nature, Abreu Advogados, in partnership with Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, is presenting a series of works by the artist Paulo Brighenti.

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In his most recent work, João Catarino presents drawings of a familiar scenery, and one that can be recognized as common in visual art: a forest. We can see different perspectives and elements of the forest environment, captured from varying points of view, some representing the details or a multitude of trees, while others indicating the ground and the shadowy paths among the dense vegetation.

Each work comes in its own colour palette, from fresh greens, to warm scarlet shades, or muted earth tones, hinting at the changing atmospheres and the forest as a living system. The drawings’ varying tonalities and vibrancy suggest the subtle transformations that occur within a space over time.

However, these images go beyond a simple depiction of natural landscapes. Catarino’s works were produced in direct and extended contact with nature. Each drawing required hours and full days spent in a given spot, to capture the dynamic interplay of environmental and subjective elements, translated by the embodied gesture of a hand moving across the paper surface. The works reveal a practice of absorbed perceptual attention and artist’s almost meditative engagement with the place, which serves not just as a visual motif, but as an immersive sensory experience that incorporates exposure to light, movement, sounds, the temperature and the smell of the air, the particular weather conditions, a specific season; and maybe even solitude, or tranquillity, or commotion of that certain day.

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For the thirteenth edition of the ongoing exhibition programme dedicated to nature, Abreu Advogados, in partnership with Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, is presenting a series of works by the artist Paulo Brighenti.

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To look at José de Almeida Pereira’s painting is to realise this impossibility of the now. The idea of a now that is impossible to capture, the now that photography captures, in its most direct and immediate relationship with reality, is spectral, as much as cinema, that realm of shadows, according to Gorky. It is precisely this spectrality that pervades José de Almeida Pereira’s oil paintings.

His characters, his dog and the landscape dance between a moment ago and a moment from now, in a spectral zone made up of superimpositions that blur the boundaries of the object, announcing the fleetingness or fragility of the human gaze, forced to realise that everything is a succession of nows that wander in a liminal zone between still there and already here.

José Almeida Pereira’s painting invites us to stop and observe a fleeting existence, in the full candour of the daily movements of a familiar dog that unfolds not only in the same painting but in several other paintings, always the same, making it both an entity and an event at the same time.

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For the thirteenth edition of the ongoing exhibition programme dedicated to nature, Abreu Advogados, in partnership with Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, is presenting a series of works by the artist Paulo Brighenti.

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Patrícia Assis takes us into the realm of domestic repetition and the mystery of cities. At a time when the boundaries between public and private – between city and home – are increasingly blurred, these works invite us toreflect on what is lost in the rush of daily life. The result is a visual dialogue between two stages of action: the home, portrayed as a sanctuary that guards our most individual rituals and repetitions; and the city, presented as a place shrouded in mystery.

Assis brings us here to contrast dynamism and haste, inviting us to linger attentively on the small everyday moments that, when accumulated, constitute our existence, giving them dignity and value.

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For the thirteenth edition of the ongoing exhibition programme dedicated to nature, Abreu Advogados, in partnership with Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, is presenting a series of works by the artist Paulo Brighenti.

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Fábio Colaço was born in Lisbon in 1995, where he currently lives and works.

I am Sculpture and Performance and Installation at the University of Fine Arts of Lisbon and at ADBK in Munich.

His artistic practice uses different media such as painting, sculpture, photography and video.

Fábio Colaço regularly exhibits his works in Portugal and abroad, individually and in groups, since 2015.

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Fábio Colaço winner of the Arte Jovem Award-Competition 2019, promoted by CDAP, presents 9 works for a reflection on the changing perception and value of money, as well as the unprecedented power it has exerted in the human imagination from Antiquity to Contemporary times.

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Louise Kanefuku was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1985.

Louise has been working primarily with drawing since 2012, on autobiographical themes such as insomnia and migration. She has held six solo exhibitions, has works in the collection of Margs (Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul, BR) and Macrs (Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Rio Grande do Sul, BR). In 2014, she received the Creativity Incentive Award at the 20th Fine Arts Salon of Porto Alegre and, in 2016, the Acquisition Award at the 44th Luiz Sacilotto Contemporary Art Salon (Santo André / BR). In Portugal, she performed the action “Escuto histórias de imigrantes” (2019) at Lote 67, is part of the project Eixo Residências Artísticas with Isabel Costa and Malena Albarracin and was one of the awardees in the Arte Jovem 2020 Award of the Millenium BCP Foundation.

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Louise Kanefuku was one of those selected for the Arte Jovem 2020 exhibition.

The works presented in this exhibition belong to a body of work related to the artist’s coming to the city of Porto. In this city “…the displacement of a body that discovered itself, over three years, a little whale, a little migrant. And it is around this central nucleus that it develops: a whale-migrant-me-body”. The series “I wish I was a whale” are drawings that materialise longing, and where the whale appears as the protagonist. The drawing of the whale as a migrant animal, strong and imposing, able to cross oceans like a kind of underwater tank, safe and unshakable.

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She took the drawing and painting course at Ar.Co. She finished her individual project in 2017.

Uses drawn lines and colours on paper forming spatial forms. Investigates geometric abstraction and the importance of planes, transparencies, opacities and textures.

Her work has been selected as a finalist in the Millenium BCP Foundation Arte Jovem Award, Lisbon, 2019; Biennale de la Jeune Création Européenne 2019-21; XXI Bienal Internacional de Arte deCerveira, Vila Nova de Cerveira, 2020; and the Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Award, Amarante, 2020. She has also had solo exhibitions in galleries and museums, such as the Museu Nacional do Traje, Lisbon, 2019-2020; Museu da Seda, 2019, or the Museo Geológico, 2018.

She is represented by Galeria Módulo, Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisbon.

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The work of Fátima Frade Reis looks for lines of contact between different materials. She works the three-dimensionality on the flat surface of the paper with constitutive elements such as the point, the line, the colour.

With the printmaking and drawing work she develops she intends to experiment with colour and space.

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João Pedro Filipe lives and works in Lisbon. With a degree in Photography and Visual Culture from the Faculty of Design, Technology and Communication (IADE), he found in photography the structural basis of his expression, and was the winner of the Abreu Advogados Award at the Millennium BCP Foundation Arte Jovem Award 2021. Because of his interest in thinking and developing the image, he entered the Master in Aesthetics and Artistic Studies, at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

From his will to question the world, arises the need to give body to questions and thoughts whose discussion is avoided or forgotten. Whether they are disturbing social paradigms or personal issues inherent to human fragility, the common struggles fought individually provoke in the author a discomfort and a need for exposure and denunciation. Even though through a simple look, he uses photography as a propitious medium to materialise these same thoughts. Aware of the ephemerality of his work, his intention is not to present solutions, but to raise a discussion and galvanise a thought, in order to touch someone more capable, who may – even if for a brief moment – bring us closer to a better world.

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Abreu Advogados, in partnership with Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, presents a series of works by artist João Pedro Filipe.

João Pedro Filipe, already in his third exhibition for Abreu Advogados’ Cultural Project, the program is dedicated to the theme “Atentai os Lírios” which takes us back to a parable in which Jesus talks to his disciples about the importance of focusing on the essential – Mt 6, 25-34. It develops in the sense of comparing situations of Nature with the human exercise.

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Inês Mendes Leal, born in 1997, is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Lisbon. Her installations combine photography, video, sound, sculpture, drawing and found paraphernalia in an exploration of the effect of action on materiality and the material representation of action, fixing on two main questions: How does an external gesture affect an image? Conversely, how can an act be materialized?

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Abreu Advogados, in partnership with Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, presents a series of works by artist Inês Mendes Leal.

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