Stand nº 27
For this edition of the Lisbon Art and Antiques Fair, the gallery Carlos Carvalho will present a selection of painting, photography, and installation works by the artists Ricardo Angélico (PT), José Bechara (BR), Jessica Backhaus (GER), Daniel Blaufuks (PT), Roland Fischer (GER).
12 - 21 April 2024
Saturday to Thursday 13 - 18 | 3pm-9pm
Saturday 20 | 3pm-9pm
Fridays 12 , 19 | 3pm-11pm
Sunday 21 | 3pm-7pm
Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon Portugal
Ricardo Angélico
Questioning the principle of cataloging, ordering, documenting and interpretating as a basis for the scientific knowledge in the world, Ricardo Angelico (Huambo, Angola, 1973) places in the art work's space a multiplication of a small disjointed narrative fragments, or whose connection is not easily seen. His work has been exhibited throughout Portugal and Spain such as in the exhibitions "Play", "The Aronburg Mystery", Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea, "O Desenho Dito", Casa da Cerca – Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Almada, Portugal, "À volta do papel", Centro de Arte Manuel de Brito, Algés, "Portugal 100 artistas, Acervo. Artistas Portugueses en la Colección Navacerrada", Centro de Arte Alcobendas, Alcobendas, Espanha. His works are held in numerous public and private collections including Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal, Fundação PLMJ, Lisbon, Portugal, Centro de Arte Manuel de Brito, Algés, Portugal, Colecção Navacerrada, Alcobendas, Spain, Ayuntamiento de Pamplona, Pamplona, Spain.
Jessica Backhaus
Born in Cuxhaven, Germany, in 1970, and raised in an artistic family, Jessica Backhaus is regarded as one of the most distinguished voices in contemporary photography in Germany today. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin and the Kunsthalle Erfurt. To date, she has eight publications to her name; Jesus and the Cherries, 2005, What Still Remains, 2008, One Day in November, 2008, I Wanted to See the World, 2010, ONE DAY- 10 photographers, 2010, Once, still and forever, 2012, Six degrees of freedom, 2015 and A TRILOGY, 2017, all published by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg/ Berlin. Her work is also featured in the book: Women Photographers by Boris Friedewald (Prestel Verlag 2014). Jessica Backhaus’ works are in many prominent art collections including Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Germany, ING Art Collection, Belgium, Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA and the Margulies Collection, Miami, USA. In 2012 FOAM Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam produced a short documentary “Wonder Jessica Backhaus”, a film by Willem Aerts.
José Bechara
José Bechara (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1957) works on a wide field of research such as space, volumetry, surface, composition showing the result of his investigation through a series of work using painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and installation. The artist often reuses truck canvas tarps, manipulates oxides of carbon, copper and steel to produce diptychs, triptychs or polyptics with different intensities exploring cores, lines and patterns. Based on a strong reference to Brazilian constructivism, understanding it as a process of collective transformation, the work of José Bechara is an example of the potential of visual language for idealization, conception and planning. The artist will present new works in a circular shape, following his new series of paintings created from carbon oxides and copper on truck canvas
The artist had shown his work in various institutions such as: Eva Klabin Foundation, Brazil; Culturgest, Portugal, MEIAC, Spain; Valencian Institute of Modern Art, Spain; MAM Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Tomie Ohtake Institute, Brazil; Ludwig Museum, Germany, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Germany; Ludwig Forum Fur Intl Kunst, Germany, and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal, among others. He is represented in several collections such as MAM RJ, Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, Brazil, Center Pompidou, France, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Museu Brasil or Ludwig (Koblenz), Germany.
Daniel Blaufuks
Daniel Blaufuks uses mainly photography and video, presenting his work through books, installations and films. He has a predilection for issues such as the connection between time and space and the intersection between private and public memory. The artist has exhibited widely in group and solo shows throughout Portugal and internationally in Spain, France, UK, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Mexico, USA and Brazil. Blaufuks’ work is held in many public collections, including those of the Byrd Hoffman Foundation, New York, Centro de Arte Moderna da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporânea, Santiago de Compostela, Colecção BES, Lisbon, Fundação PLMJ, Lisbon, MEIAC, Badajoz, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Funchal, Museu de Arte Contemporânea - Colecção Berardo, Sintra, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Sagamore Art Collection, Miami and The Progressive Collection, Ohio. Among other awards, he was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (2007, 2015), shortlisted for the Pilar Citoler Award, 2007 and the European Photography Award, 1996. In 1990 he won the Kodak National Award, in 2007 the BES Photo Award, and in 2016 Daniel Blaufuks the AICA - International Association of Art Critics Award for Visual Arts.
Roland Fischer
"Roland Fischer’s new series “Transhistorical Places" begun in 2018 and is comprised by "photographic works, geometrical figures, such as colored circles, spheres, rectangular elements and other formations, stand on equal footing with photographic details of Brutalist buildings. The latter overlap in part the striking, colorful surfaces, resulting in completely new spatial constructs.
All the series by Roland Fischer that are concerned with Modernist and contemporary architecture have one thing in common: they do not seek to depict the buildings, but strive for “autonomous image creation”. These exciting inventions emerge from assembling real and fictitious parts into a hybrid between “painting” and photography.”
Ute Bopp-Schumacher
Since the 1980s, Roland Fischer has been developing different series of work on a solid and consistent career using architecture and portraiture as subjects presenting them on a large scale photographs. The Facades series, for example, attempts to understand architecture as a modernist painting using its formal principles: color, rhythm, shape, shadow, composition, patterns, to show how globalized culture has a common and universal vocabulary. In “New Architectures” the composition is made simultaneously of pictures taken from many vantage points placed in one frame converting the work into an abstract visual photograph.
Roland Fischer‘s lives and works between Munich and Beijing. His work has already been shown in 120 museums and art institutions worldwide including Musée d’art Moderne in Paris, the CGAC in Santiago de Compostela, The Photographers Gallery in London, Museum of Art Architecture and Technology (MAAT) in Lisbon, Museo DA2 in Salamanca, Centre Culturel la Maison Rouge in Paris, Institute d’Art Contemporain in France, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain in Paris (FNAC), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain in Strasbourg; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst in Antwerp, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Leon (MUSAC). His work is represented in many public and private collections.