Maria Condado

For Maria Condado landscape is not only a pictorial field of research but also political and social. The artist freewheeling painting style, with its different layers of abstract fluid and vibrant colors, pretends to understand landscape as a cultural construction, a product of cultures, experiences that reveal ways of seeing the world.

The artist has exhibited widely in group and in solo exhibitions throughout the country namely A Play of Boundaries (Carlos Carvalho, Lisbon, 2018), Uma loja, cinco casas, uma escola (Casa Bernardo, Caldas da Rainha, 2016), Ensaios sobre a (in)flexibilidade do natural – parte 2 (Ministério do Ambiente, Lisboa, 2014), Onde é a China? (Museu do Oriente, Lisboa, 2016), 16º Programa de Exposições (Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa 2009), Hangart 7 (Salzburg, Áustria, 2009), Vestígio (Pavilhão 28, Hospital Júlio de Matos, Lisboa, 2005) and II Rothschild Bank Painting Prize Finalists Exhibition – Palácio das Galveias, Lisbon. Her works are held in numerous public and private collections such as PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon, Grupo RAR, Porto, Norlinda and José Lima Collection.“Hortus” is the name of her artist book edited in 2016 by Stolen Books, Lisbon.