Alvarenga Marques

About

ALVARENGA MARQUES (Al.Ma.) Born In Mozambique, lives and works in Porto, Portugal.
Alma comes from a generation of artists that has chosen, facing a saturated visual world, the appropriation and recycling of several images from varied sources, for the last twenty, thirty years. Yet, her inclusion in this group is controversial, since instead of the usual method of unconditional stealing of references, historic quotations and the respective recycling giving rise to a scattering of the meaning, her case has been revealing a restricted idiosyncratic orientation.
That Alma wants us to be enraptured by this childhood world seems to be, in the very act, her aim. Though it clearly shows, at first sight, a good imitation of the compulsory childish trend to write and paint on inappropriate surfaces, the author’s vandalism, only apparently innocent, goes obviously even farther.
In this fluid, transparent and theatrical space, an interaction of mutual influence, either graphic or plastic, reveals itself – between the background pulsation (staging reality) and the overlapped drawings ( paradigmatic of the childish imaginary). From this agitation an expressive strength of a nostalgic, metaphysic and a kind of lost time atmosphere appears.
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Location: Porto, Portugal
Website: http://www.alvarengamarques.blogspot.com

Work

Group Exhibitions and Activities in last years:

2011 - FAC – Arte Lisboa – Trindade gallery stand – FIL - Lisboa

2010 – VII Biennial, salão das artes 2010, Vidigueira; " Pensando através dos meus olhos", Gal.Trindade – Porto;
FAC – Arte Lisboa – Trindade gallery stand – FIL - Lisboa

2009 – 1st International Painting Prize Portuguese Rotary Fondation, - Coimbra- PORTUGAL
Collective Exhibition “ Pintores Noveles - Galerías Fibras” - París/MontePego – FRANCE / SPAIN

2008 – FAC – Arte Lisboa – Trindade gallery stand – FIL - Lisboa

2007 – FAC – Arte Lisboa – Trindade gallery stand – FIL - Lisboa

2006 – FAC – Arte Lisboa – Trindade gallery stand – FIL – Lisboa -PORTUGAL

2005- Amadeo De Sousa-Cardoso Prize –Amadeu De Sousa Cardoso Municipal Museum - Amarante.

2004- III Fine Arts Prize-Baviera Sec.XXI – Museum of Cerveira Biennial – V.N.Cerveira - PORTUGAL

2003- Ásia Print Adventure – Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art – JAPAN; 6e Triennal Mondiale de l’Estampe
Petit Format - Chamalières/Auvergne – France ; All Media . Painting III (online exibition) – Period Gallery –
Omaha / Nebraska – U.S.A.

2002- 7th International Salon - Mercosur - Diogenes Taborda – Fundación Volpe Stessens / Buenos Aires –
ARGENTINA; “Verão” de Mulheres – Trindade Gallery/ Porto – PORTUGAL; “IT ART 2002”: 4th Mini
Graphic & Painting World Wide Show – Accademia d’ Arte di Pisa – ITALY; 7th Fine Arts Biennial of
Montijo City / Vespeira Prize – PORTUGAL.

2001- 1st Graphic Biennial of St. André/S.Paulo – BRASIL ; Portuguese Contemporary Etching –
Bibliothéque Gabrielle Roy – Quebec/ CANADA ;Painting National Prize “Júlio Resende” – Aud. Municipal /
Gondomar - PORTUGAL; Graphic Festival / Évora - PORTUGAL ;Fine Arts Biennial – Festa do Avante /
Seixal - PORTUGAL ; 1st International Graphic Biennial / Alijó - PORTUGAL ; 1st Erotic Art Prize – Aud.
Municipal / Gondomar – PORTUGAL.

2000 – Symposium “Z-Art” / Salzau – GERMANY ;3th Fine Arts Biennial “o Vidro”- Marinha Grande – San
Ildefonso/ La Granja – SPAIN ;”Poetas & Poetas” ( Etching)- Casa do Olhar – St. André/ S. Paulo – BRASIL ;
7th International Graphic Biennial – Fábrica da Cultura / Amadora – PORTUGAL.

1999 – 11th Fine Arts Biennial - Festa do Avante / Seixal - PORTUGAL . 1998 – “ Silêncios / Stille”- Centro
Cultural e de Congressos / Aveiro - PORTUGAL ;” Silêncios / Stille”- Kunstkreis / Preetz – GERMANY.

ONE MAN EXHIBITIONS:

2007 – “Till the sun turns black” - Trindade Gallery – Porto – PORTUGAL

2004 – “Screens of memory” – Trindade Gallery – Porto – PORTUGAL.

2002 – “Always on my mind” - OM Gallery – Penafiel – PORTUGAL.

2000 – “Submerso” - Epicentro / Arte & Produções Culturais – Porto – PORTUGAL.

1999 – “Em Terra de Cego” - OM Gallery – Penafiel – PORTUGAL.

1998 – “Tons Férteis” – Municipal Gallery – Matosinhos – PORTUGAL.

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS:

2004- III Fine Arts Prize-Baviera Sec.XXI – Museum of Cerveira Biennial – V.N.Cerveira - PORTUGAL

2003 – Special Recognition – All Media . Painting III – Period Gallery – Omaha/Nebraska – U.S.A.

2002 – 1st Etching Prize – 7º Salón Internacional Mercosur Diogenes Taborda/ Buenos Aires – ARGENTINA;
Prize show (artisti finalisti) -“IT ART 2002”: 4th Mini Graphic & Painting World Wide Show – Chiesa di S. Maria
Della Spina – Pisa - ITALY.

2000 – Acquisition Prize ( Magna Artis ) – Artistas.Gondomar – Auditório Municipal / Gondomar- PORTUGAL.

1994 – Revelation Prize – IV Bienal de Gravura – Fábrica da Cultura / Amadora – PORTUGAL. … Read More

Education

ALVARENGA MARQUES (Al.Ma.) – Born In Mozambique. Licentiate’s degree in Plastic Art – Painting, by
Fine Arts College of Porto University (ESBAP) – 1992.