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Xesko
 
 
About the Artist

In the secondary School, was a Founder and Publisher of the Magazine "The Bantalas" entirely dedicated to the Arts (Art Painting, Photograph, Prose and Poetry) and participated in a contest of Art Painting whose objective was the creation of a poster commemorative of the anniversary of the M. P. L. A. obtaining the 1º place.

He detached itself widely in Sports, obtaining several titles of National Champion, in Swimming (consecutively from 1970 to 1980) and Chess (1977 and 1979).

He represented is nation abroad several times, being the last time in the Olympic Games of Moscow (1980).

Noticeable Militant of the Youth of the Party (J.M.P.L.A.) abandoned the politics when he moved to Portugal in 1982.

During that time never stop painting, experiencing new techniques and ideas, being strongly influenced by the African art and by the work of Salvador Dali.

 
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Xesko - The Smile, in the Electric Zone of the Colours

2005
Acrylic on Canvas
50 X 70 cm

Xesko - The Smile, in the Electric Zone of the Colours
Welcome to the Electric Zone of the colours / Look around is time to wake up / So only in the electric zone of the colours, / Finally, You will be able to meet yourself again / It is time to wake up... / Re-visiting the present you dream / Drunk poet, you try to escape / Welcome to the Electric Zone of the colours / Rise up, look right, everything is going to begin.

Xesko - The Girl of the Pink Cap

2007
Oil on Linen
70 x 70 cm

Xesko - The Girl of the Pink Cap
A Cubist experience, a cubist influence, modern yet bold. Soft colours changing the cubist vision nearly going to the edge of pop art.

Xesko - (Taurus Furibundus) Twilight Effects

2007
Acrylic on Linen
70 x 50 cm

Xesko - (Taurus Furibundus) Twilight Effects
This painting is from a series of works on bulls, where I detach his nobility and his character.

Xesko - Hug 6.2

2007
Oil on Linen
40 x 40 cm

Xesko - Hug 6.2
From a series of works on World-wide Fraternity and the Peace. This work (Version 6.2), is 1 of 7 works representing the symbolic embrace between the Sun and the Moon in the universal ether.

Xesko - LOL

2007
Oil on Linen
70 x 50 cm

Xesko - LOL
The irony of the modern world. (In exposition in a public place - Hospital D. Estefânia - Lisbon/Portugal)

Xesko - Firebeer

2007
Oil on Linen
70 x 70 cm

Xesko - Firebeer
The best way to do a party is with fireworks and beer

Xesko - Recall Memory

2005
Oil on Canvas
101 X 76 cm

Xesko - Recall Memory
A memory retained in the retina conjugated in the present and in the past. (In exposition in a public place - Military Hospital of Belem - Lisbon/Portugal)

Xesko - Kita

2007
Oil on Canvas
46 X 55 cm

Xesko - Kita
A portrait of my Beautiful God-daughter. (In a Private Collection)

Xesko - Without Words

2004
Oil on Canvas
40 X 50 cm

Xesko - Without Words
A strange Self Portrait whit many connotations... (In a Private collection)

Xesko - Cunhal, The Man

2006
Oil on Canvas
101 X 76 cm

Xesko - Cunhal, The Man
Homage to ALVARO CUNHAL (1913-2005) headman of the Portuguese Communist Party. Political, resistant, communist headman, writer, plastic artist and a Great Man. Basicly a noble man in the life as in the arts. (In exposition in a public place - P.C.P. headquarters - Lisbon/Portugal)

Xesko - Memories Of The Past (The Hunter and the Pointer)

2006
Oil on Canvas
46 X 55 cm

Xesko - Memories Of The Past (The Hunter and the Pointer)
A bucolic painting of past times. (In exposition in a public place - Club of Pointer's Friends - Oporto/Portugal)

Xesko - Almond Tree Flower

2005
Oil on Canvas
34 X 44 cm

Xesko - Almond Tree Flower
A different Still Life. When the almond trees blossom breaks the rural scenery transforms and seems that we are in the presence of a snow mantle.

Xesko - Madona Rubia

2005
Oil on Canvas
41 X 51 cm

Xesko - Madona Rubia
One day I was casually eating an hamburger when I saw a Goddess who was glowing and radiating beauty. In that moment I felt an enormous urge inside me to put her on canvas. So it was and here she is.

Xesko - (7 living tattoos) Tribal

2004
Oil on Canvas
50 X 70 cm

Xesko - (7 living tattoos) Tribal
This painting is from a series of works on tattoos. Yes tattoos, I don't know why, but no one see the tattoos LOL.

Xesko - Divine Mission or the Death of the Innocence

2008
Oil on Canvas
90 X 60 cm

Xesko - Divine Mission or the Death of the Innocence
The meaning of Life is a " Divine Mission or the Death of the Innocence " you chose.

Xesko - Mens Sana in Corpore Sano

2008
Acrylic on Paper
40 X 30 cm

Xesko - Mens Sana in Corpore Sano
A different vision of the world.

Xesko - "Dispersionism" Penetration

2008
Oil on Linen
70 x 50 cm

Xesko -
A new kind of aesthetics

Xesko - Sailing on Uncharted Seas

2008
Oil on Canvas
50 x 50 cm

Xesko - Sailing on Uncharted Seas
An allegory to the Portuguese maritime discoveries.

Xesko - Pregnant Woman Lying Down

2008
Acrylic on Paper
40 X 30 cm

Xesko - Pregnant Woman Lying Down
A Cubist Experience, "Picasso meets Klee"

Soul

2009
Oil on Canvas
40 X 40 cm

Soul
A tribute to two great painters, "Picasso" and "Almada Negreiros"

Ebony Goddess

2007
Graphite on Paper
50 X 70 cm

Ebony Goddess
 
Education and biography
Graduated in Chemical Engineering, in the College of Sciences of Moscow (Ex. Soviet union).

He frequented also the Courses of: "Scientific Drawing" and "Creative Thought in the Post-Modernism", in the College of Sciences of Moscow (Ex. Soviet union).

Course of “Improvement in Painting Techniques for Oil Portraits”, promoted by the PhD Art Painter, Almaia.

Course of “Esthetic's and Theories of the Contemporary Art" and "Art Painting and Plastic intervention”, from SNBA (National Society of Fine Arts - Portugal).

Course of “Photograph and Graphic Design”, from IADE (Institute of Visual Arts, Design and Marketing - Portugal).

Course of “Sciences of Sports” and “High Performance Training”, from FMH (Faculty of Human Motricity - Portugal).

Course of “Digital Techniques and Microprocessors”, from ISEL (Superior Institute of Engineering of Lisbon - Portugal).

Superior Course of “Internet and Electronic Commerce”, promoted through Campus ESINE (Center of Technical Business Studies - Portugal).

He has several works displayed in public places and it is represented in several private and official collections in Portugal, Russia, France, Spain, Brazil and Angola.


Solo Exhibitions:
2008 - "E Pluribus Unum" First Gallery, (Lisbon/Portugal).
2004 - "7 Shades of Gray", Café da Ponte, Docas de Alcântara, (Lisbon/Portugal).
1982 - "Butterfly Effect", Humbi-Humbi Art Gallery, (Luanda/Angola).
1981 - "Freedom", Scientific Institute of Minsk, (Minsk/Bielorussia - Ex. U.S.S.R.).
1979 - "The Power of Revolution" – Noble Room from EDIL, (Luanda/Angola).

Group Exhibitions:
2009 - ARTEXPO NY, (New York/U.S.A).
2009 - Puro Arte, (Vigo/Spain).
2008 - Xmas 2008, (Lisbon/Portugal).
2008 - "Seas, villages and other stories...", (Alcochete/Portugal).
2008 - "Alcarte", (Alcochete/Portugal).
2008 - "The Magnificent 7", (Alcochete/Portugal).
2008 - "Art Outside the Gallery", (Alcochete/Portugal).
2007 - CRP 50A, (Lisbon/Portugal).
2007 - "Alcarte", (Alcochete/Portugal).
2007 - "Remember April, commemorations of the 25 of April and 1º of May", (Alcochete/Portugal).
2007 - "1º National Exhibition of Fine Arts", (Lisbon/Portugal).
2006 - "Things about Campolide", (Lisbon/Portugal).
2005 - Military Hospital of Belém, (Lisbon/Portugal).
1978 - "A painting for the Revolution", Noble Room of the National Assembly, (Luanda/Angola).
 
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