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Martinho Dias
 
 
About the Artist

MARTINHO DIAS, (b. 1968) is a visual artist from Portugal.

His work moves itself, above all, in a social and political criticism inside a contemporary reality. He unfolds this reality, which is common to us, in a suggestive, implied way. He privileges patterns of information collecting photographs from the mass media, such as newspapers, magazines or images taken from the television. In an intelligent way, he uses these “models” of his for the accomplishment of pictorial compositions, which are the substratum of the representations of figures and bodies of his painting, faced as an inevitability of the daily life.

“His vision regards the conscience as the element that identifies the human identity. Martinho Dias equates the deconstruction of the several fringes of the reality as we perceive it, in what Debord calls “the integrated spectacular”, and reconfigures them in the plan of the canvas, showing in several levels and in various forms (in the realism of the figures, in the sketch or in the partial erasure) that the apprehension of the outside world will not be possible for us, unless the painting itself is so complex and multiform as the global world.” (Hugo Barata)

The excellent technical control of the work of Martinho Dias skims the irony, the cynicism or the paradox and it transports us beyond the painting itself, to legitimate and different experienced realities, as well as to a world in transit, even if involuntarily.

G.Z.

 
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Applause #3

2006
acrylic on canvas
167 x 167 cm

Applause #6

2006
acrylic on canvas
153 x 153 cm

Applause #21

2007
acrylic on canvas
80 x 100 cm

We applaud the winners, the celebrities, as if we are saying ‘I am part of your success’, even if it is for only 15 minutes. Nevertheless, our applause is not for the winner, but for the mask that hides him and protects him from the frailties of success. Only the winner’s story is told however although it is told with worthiness, in a clean and shiny setting. This is just a part of the humanity’s stage.

Applause #20

2007
acrylic on canvas
80 x 100 cm

Only the winner’s story is told however although it is told with worthiness, in a clean and shiny setting. This is just a part of the humanity’s stage.

Applause #4

2006
acrylic on canvas
153 x 153 cm

The goal of the paintings that constitute the series APPLAUSE is to reflect the feeble boundary that separates victory, glory, glamour, deception, fear or incapacity of winning. It is in this fragile line, full of diverse emotions, that the right of applause is decided, whether the victory has been accomplished by the chronometer, by subjective criteria of selection, in a survival limit situation, or by the intervention of the mass media.

Dialogue and Monologue #1

2008
acrylic on canvas
80 x 100 cm

Dialogue and Monologue #2

2008
acrylic on canvas
80 x 100 cm

Dialogue and Monologue #3

2008
acrylic on canvas
80 x 100 cm

Dialogue and Monologue #4

2008
acrylic on canvas
80 x 100 cm

Dialogue and Monologue #5

2008
acrylic on canvas
120 x 90 cm

Dialogue and Monologue #6

2008
acrylic on canvas
120 x 90 cm

Dialogue and Monologue #7

2008
acrylic on canvas
120 x 90 cm

Dialogue and Monologue #8

2008
acrylic on canvas
120 x 90 cm

Dialogue and Monologue #9

2008
acrylic on canvas
90 x120 cm

#10 - Joe Berardo and George AuClaire

2008
acrylic on canvas
90 x120 cm

Dialogues and Monologues #11

2008
acrylic on canvas
120 x 90

Dialogues and Monologues #12

2009
acrylic on canvas
190 x 90

Stage #1

2009
acrylic on canvas
90 x 120 cm

Stage #1

Stage #2

2009
acrylic on canvas
90 x 120 cm

Stage #2

Stage #3

2009
acrylic on canvas
90 x 120 cm

Stage #3

Stage #4

2009
acrylic on canvas
90 x 120 cm

Stage #4

Stage #5

2009
acrylic on canvas
120 x 90

Stage #6

2009
acrylic on canvas
190 x 90

Stage #7

2009
acrylic on canvas
120 x 90

Applause #11/12

2006/2009
acrylic on canvas
140x187 cm

 
Education and biography
1996 - Academic degree in Fine Arts - Painting, in Oporto University.

ECHIBITIONS
2009 - STAGES, Del Veinte Galeria, Santander, Spain;
- Painting, Casa-Museu Soledade Malvar, V. N. Famalicão, Portugal;
- WRITTEN PAINTINGS, Servartes – Espaço Cultural, Oporto, Portugal;
2008 - Painting, Biblioteca Municipal de Ponte de Sor, Portugal;
- DIALOGUES and MONOLOGUES, Galeria O Rastro, Figueira da Foz, Portugal;
- “arte x arte08”, Bogotá, Colombia;
2007 - NEW BODY, Espaço SERVARTES, Oporto, Portugal
- WRITTEN PAINTINGS, Santos Rocha Museum, Figueira da Foz, Portugal
- APLAUSO , Galeria de Sao Bento, Lisbon, Portugal
- ART MADRID, by Antonio Prates Gallery, Madrid, Spain
- 1st winner, Body in Expression, Servartes Space, Oporto, Portugal
- Colective Exhibition, Galeria Antonio Prates , Lisbon, Portugal
2006 - APPLAUSE, painting, Canizares Gallery, Salvador / Bahia, Brazil
- 6th International Art Fair - ARTELisboa, FIL, by Antonio Prates Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
- BODY IN EXPRESSION, Servartes Space, Oporto, Portugal
- NEW BODY, painting, Clube Literario do Porto, Oporto, Portugal
2005 - 5th International Art Fair - ARTELisboa, Pedro Serrenho Gallery, FIL, Lisbon, Portugal
- Imagens Projectadas #Instalations, with Vitor Rua, Nuno Rebelo, Phill Niblock, each others, Casa dos Dias da Agua, Lisbon, Portugal
2004 - Collective exhibition, Electra Gallery, Oporto, Portugal
2003 - INDISPOSITION, Santa Clara Gallery, Coimbra, Portugal
- 19th Biennial of Illustrations of Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
2002 - 2nd Baviera Painting Award in the Transports and Communication Museum, Oporto, Portugal
- Honourable Prize in the 2nd Painting Biennial, Young Art, Penafiel, Portugal
2001 - Julio Resende National Award, Gondomar, Portugal
- 11th International Biennial of Art of Vila Nova de Cerveira, V. N. de Cerveira, Portugal
2000 - Honourable Prize in the 1st Painting Biennial Young Art, Penafiel, Portugal
- 3rd Biennial of Fine Arts of Marinha Grande, itinerant to La Granja, Spain
1999 - "April Days Exhibition", Cupertino de Miranda Foundation, V. N. de Famalicao, Portugal
- One of the representatives of Portugal in The Winsor & Newton Worldwide Millennium Painting Competition exhibited in The Mall Galleries, London; World Trade Center i Stockholm, Stockholm and United Nations Headquarters, New York
- Collective exhibition, Delaunay Gallery, Vila do Conde, Portugal
- "11th Biennial of Avante Party", Seixal, Portugal
1997 - Colective painting exhibited in Lagoa Gallery, Trofa, Portugal.
1996 - 2nd National Contest - Francisco Wandschneider, EUROPARQUE, Vila da Feira, Portugal.
1995 - 8th International Biennial of Art of Vila Nova de Cerveira, V. N. de Cerveira, Portugal.
- "BCM'95, Painting Prize" in Arvore Gallery, Oporto, Portugal.
 
Website:  www.martinhodias.eu
 
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