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ESPIGA Pinto | Camões and The Lusiads // Camões e os Lusíadas
From the mid 1980s, ESPIGA Pinto developed a particular focus on the theme of The Lusiads, an epic poem written by Luís de Camões (1525-1580). Camões is Portugal’s most iconic literary figure. This resulted in multiple artworks, from silkscreen prints to commemorative coins, issued by The Portuguese Mint. Below is a selection of key pieces…
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Donation of Works to The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation | Doação de Obras de ESPIGA Pinto à Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
In 2020, ESPIGA Pinto’s heirs donated more than 50 key works to CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian. The works were dated between the 1960s and the 1980s and included drawings, study notebooks, sculptures, engravings, and a catalogue book by him. The selection of works was undertaken by the Director of the Gulbenkian Museum,…
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‘Of my beginning’ / “Do meu início” — ESPIGA Pinto, 2010
Of my beginning Some works from 1959-1966 in my 80th solo exhibition at Galeria de São Mamede – Lisbon. From 1960 to today, 2010, 50 years have passed… and here the memory of Almada Negreiros stands out, with regard to the impediments and maligning against my early work of the 1960s, since during a conversation…
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Depoimento de ESPIGA Pinto sobre a OGIVA (2009)
Conheci José Aurélio em 1957, fomos alunos e colegas do curso de Escultura (…). Liguei-me ao projecto da Ogiva logo de início e acompanhei-o assiduamente, interrompendo apenas quando fui para o estrangeiro com uma bolsa da Gulbenkian. Eu já tinha ligação a Óbidos antes da Galeria Ogiva, pois lá ia muitos fins de semana. Aluguei…
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Testimonial/Testemunho: Joaquim Matos Chaves
Espiga Pinto, an Alentejo, the Alentejo All figuration is transfiguring, most clearly in visual expression. Sometimes deliberate, purposefully, sometimes not. But even when it seeks a true or exact reconstruction, ‘sic’, of realism, it never manages to be anything other than an illusion. Illusion not of reality, but of the intended realism. Even in the…
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ESPIGA PINTO and Ballet // ESPIGA Pinto e o Bailado
ESPIGA Pinto’s involvement in Ballet – as stage and set designer in the 1970s and 1980s – took place alongside renowned choreographer Carlos Trincheiras in both the Gulbenkian Ballet Company – led by Milko Sparemblek and Jorge Salavisa – and then Portugal’s National Ballet Company. // O envolvimento de ESPIGA Pinto no Ballet em Portugal…
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8th Exhibition Young Contemporary Art, 5-22 December 1974 – Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil | Oitava Exposição Jovem Arte Contemporânea 5-22 Dezembro 1974 – Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
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ESPIGA Pinto’s 1972 Performance: Egodreamtime | Egotemponírico
“In 1972, painter Espiga Pinto made the performance/happening Egotemponírico in Valadares. The work was later described by the important programmer and critic Egídio Álvaro as a “symbolic path/environment of large objects that adapt themselves to the trees and modify the landscape. In that temporary space birth, suffering, and departure were approached, with the artist using his own…
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Alexandre O’Neill: Poema para ESPIGA Pinto (Galeria 111, 1969)
ESPIGA PINTO Desprende-te e separa-te, tu que tens de nascer. Centrífugo, não faças gravitação alheia. Bem sei que a tribo te vigia o percurso e se exorbitas, ralha-te. Que queres? Antes nascer do caos que da ordem da tribo. Brandem-te a regra, mostram-te a medida. Que sabem eles disso para além do colarinho? Ralham-nos a todos, mas, depois, trocam…