Manuela Pimentel Portuguese, b. 1979
Overview
Manuela Pimentel ingeniously fuses together references to the traditional handicraft art of painted mural tiles with the aesthetics of street billboards and their cumulative layers of ripped and lacerated advertising posters. Bearing in mind post-war artists of the New Realism movement such as Mimmo Rotella, Raymond Hains or Jacques Villeglé, Pimentel incorporates fragments of street posters she takes off herself or uses them as supports for her painted interventions. Using acrylic colours, the artist accurately reproduces traditional figures and scenes taken from the visual culture of the Portuguese azulejos. By integrating the tiles’ conventional chromaticism, iconography and naif-style rendering into specific wall-mounted art works and by merging all of it with torn street posters, adding resins, rough mortar and neon lights, the artist reconfigures the place of the azulejo as a popular and decorative expression that used to belong to local collective memory to inscribe it in the space of global artistic creation.
She was distinguished with the ESAP award from the Higher Course in Visual Arts (2004), and received the First Prize in the Servartes Painting Award (Porto, Portugal, 2007). Recently, her work was distinguished with the Public Vote Award of the Sovereign Portuguese Art Prize (September 2022). Recent projects also include the illustration of the issue that the Colóquio Letras magazine, from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, dedicates to Manuel Alegre in September (2022). In 2024, the National Tile Museum will dedicates to her a solo exhibition.
Works
Exhibitions
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PARAGONE: What’s with mediums today?
INTERNATIONAL GROUP SHOW 26 May - 20 August 2023In the context of the Lisbon Art Week, the international contemporary art exhibition 'PARAGONE: What's with mediums today?' will open on May 26, in three exhibition centres: Cape Verde Cultural...Read more -
(IM)MATERIALITY
Group Show: Águeda's Art Center 1 October 2022 - 15 January 2023Following the success achieved during the presentation in Lisbon, and at the invitation of Águeda's Municipality, the exhibition (IM)MATERIALITY will itinerate to Águeda Arts Center in October. “(IM)MATERIALITY” promotes a...Read more -
À Flor da Pele
Solo Show: Manuela Pimentel 24 September - 12 November 2022THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE gallery presents on September 24 in Lisbon, 'À Flor da Pele' - a solo exhibition by the Portuguese artist Manuela Pimentel, which pays tribute...Read more -
(IM)MATERIALITY
GROUP SHOW: Not a Museum 20 May - 12 August 2022'(IM)MATERIALITY' is curated by Graça Rodrigues, Sónia Ribeiro, Katherine Sirois, Lourenço Egreja, and Diogo Bento, and exhibits, through three distinct nuclei, a significant combination of media, ranging from painting to...Read more
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MUSAMBIQUE
Manuela Pimentel and Jas 30 March - 7 May 2022Camões - Portuguese Cultural Center in Maputo presents the exhibition MUSAMBIQUE, a group show by the Portuguese artists Manuela Pimentel and João Alexandrino (Jas). This exhibition results from an artistic...Read more -
DIAPASÃO
Manuela Pimentel and JAS 4 October 2021 - 28 February 2022“Diapason”, from Greek roots “dia”, which means “through” and “pasōn”, which means “all”, suggests something that transposes, that traverses several realities. It also defines the device that allows determining the...Read more
Art Fairs
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ARCO LISBOA 2023
Group Show: Manuela Pimentel, Cássio Markowski, Pedro Pires, René Tavares 25 - 28 May 2023ARCOlisboa 2023 will once again turn the Portuguese capital into a meeting point for collectors, gallery owners, artists, and professionals from all over the world....Read more -
Art Paris 2023
Manuela Pimentel and Vanessa Barragão 30 March - 2 April 2023Art Paris is celebrating its 25th anniversary with an edition that will bring together about 134 galleries from 25 countries at the Grand Palais Éphémère...Read more
Press
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(IM)MATERIALITY Águeda's Art Centre
RTP, 8 October 2022 -
(IM)MATERIALITY - Daniel Madeira em ARTE & CULTURA para a Umbigo Magazine
Umbigo, 13 February 2023 -
Angolan artists participate in international exhibition
Roque Silva, Jornal de Angola, 24 May 2023 -
ARCOlisboa exceeds 13,000 visitors
Público, 29 May 2023 -
ARCOLisboa galleries to watch and other news
ARTAFRICA, 24 May 2023 -
ART PARIS, 25TH Anniversary
artprice.com, 17 March 2023 -
DIAPASÃO | PORTUGUESE DUET IN LUANDA
Redacção, LUANDA SECRETA, 11 October 2021 -
International Contemporary Art Exhibition will be in Lisbon starting May 26
Lusa e SIC Notícias, 16 May 2023 -
Interview: Manuela Pimentel at Femina, Antena 3
Vanessa Augusto, Femina at Radio Sration Antena 3, 17 March 2020 -
Manuela Pimentel
Inês Graça, ATTITUDE, 16 September 2022 -
Manuela Pimentel: Murmures de Murs
João Alexandrino AKA JAS , Documentary, 13 April 2014 -
Manuela Pimentel: Se eu pudesse trincar a terra toda - Documentary by JAS
João Alexandrino AKA JAS, Documentary, 17 August 2015 -
THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE is present in the 25th edition of the contemporary art fair Art Paris
Observador, 24 January 2023 -
WHAT TO SEE IN ART PARIS
Le Point, 30 March 2023
Video
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PARAGONE: What's with mediums today?
Group Show 29 June 2023 -
Manuela Pimentel
À Margem de Certa Maneira 1 June 2022On @rtppt Bom dia Portugal with Daniel CatalãoRead more -
Art can help to overcome the post-colonial Portugal-Africa stigmas
Interview with Graça Rodrigues and João Paulo Sacadura 6 June 2022Interview with Graça Rodrigues, conducted by journalist João Paulo Sacadura for the Portuguese radio station 'Observador' - podcast 'Convidado Extra.' Graça Rodrigues is co-artistic director...Read more -
(IM)MATERIALITY
international art exhibition 1 July 2022 -
(IM)MATERIALITY
INTERNATIONAL GROUP SHOW AT ÁGUEDA ARTS CENTER 1 October 2022 -
Manuela Pimentel || À Flor da Pele
3 November 2022
Publications
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Amo-te
ARTISTIC EDITION BY MANUELA PIMENTEL Manuela Pimentel, 2021 Read more -
Amo-te
ARTISTIC EDITION BY MANUELA PIMENTEL Manuela Pimentel, 2021 Read more -
Amo-te
ARTISTIC EDITION BY MANUELA PIMENTEL Manuela Pimentel, 2021 Read more -
Amo-te
ARTISTIC EDITION BY MANUELA PIMENTEL Manuela Pimentel, 2021 Read more
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Amo-te
ARTISTIC EDITION BY MANUELA PIMENTEL Manuela Pimentel, 2021 Read more -
PORQUÊ NÃO SEI I
Silkscreened plate, ceramic. Manuela Pimentel, 2021CircleRead more
Publisher: Cooperativa Árvore
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PORQUÊ NÃO SEI II
Silkscreened plate, ceramic. Manuela Pimentel, 2021CircleRead more
Publisher: Cooperativa Árvore
Dimensions: 36 x 36 cm -
PORQUÊ NÃO SEI III
SILKSCREENED PLATE, CERAMIC. Manuela Pimentel, 2020CircleRead more
Publisher: Cooperativa Árvore
Dimensions: 36x36cm
Events
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ARCO LISBOA 2023
Group Show: Manuela Pimentel, Cássio Markowski, Pedro Pires, René Tavares 25 - 28 May 2023ARCOlisboa 2023 will once again turn the Portuguese capital into a meeting point for collectors, gallery owners, artists, and professionals from all over the world....Read more -
Art Paris 2023
Manuela Pimentel and Vanessa Barragão 30 March - 2 April 2023Art Paris is celebrating its 25th anniversary with an edition that will bring together about 134 galleries from 25 countries at the Grand Palais Éphémère...Read more -
LISBON ART WEEKEND
10 - 13 November 2022Lisbon Art Weekend is back! The annual weekend for art lovers presents the Lisbon Contemporary Art scene and parallel events centered on the contemporary visual...Read more