Sonia Aniceto | Marya Al Qassimi | Manuela Jardim
Portugal / Belgium | United Arab Emirates | Guinea - Bissau
London Art FAir
18th – 22nd January VIP Preview on the 16th Performance on Thursday, the 18th, 8pm, by
Alice Albergaria Borges & Natasha Lynch
PERVE GALERIA Stand P17A | Dialogues
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Sonia Aniceto Ascension | Oil on canvas, free embroidery stitch, 50 x 37 cm, 2016
PERVE GALERIA Stand P17A | Dialogues
Perve Gallery | Portugal Located in the historic centre of Lisbon since 2000, Perve Galeria presents exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, since November 2000. The gallery develops and promotes nationally and internationally artistic, cultural and technological projects. One of its primary objectives has been the dissemination of authors coming from the Portuguese speaking countries, not only in the fields of visual arts but also with multimedia art and interactivity. Perve Galeria’s history, includes exhibitions and the organization of multiple national and international artistic initiatives, with emphasis on curatorial projects such as: International Triennial of Contemporary Art in Prague (Czech Republic, 2008); Interna-tional traveling exhibition “Mobility Re-reading the Future” (Poland, Finland, Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Portugal, 2008-09); “Lusofonias” (Lisbon, Dakar, New Delhi, 2009-17); the 2nd Global Art Meeting with the participation of more than 150 artists from 3 continents (Portugal, 2008-09); “The Surrealists 1949-2009” (Portugal, 2009) and “555-Ciclo Gutenberg” (Portugal, 2010). In 2013 the gallery launched a new museological space in Lisbon: Freedom House - Mário Cesariny that is a versatile artistic project, built in honor of the poet and surrealist painter Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos, that hosts the artistic and documentary estate, bequeathed by the artist, along with some collections that began to be gathered from the beginning of the 90’s. Among the collections are the most emblematic ones dedicated to Surrealism, African Primitive Art, Erotic Art and Lusophony. The professionalism of Perve Galeria is evident in its already 17 years of presence in the art market. During 17 years of regular activity, there were many initiatives developed in Portugal and abroad, as in the case of Senegal, Brazil, UAE and India. The gallery also promotes the diffusion of contemporary art through the edition of screen-prints and the edition of signed and numbered art books. Information about this and other initiatives, exhibitions, art collections, artists and artistic editions it is available at www.pervegaleria.eu, where you can check the regular activity of this Art Gallery. There are also available the exhibition catalogues, press clipping and exhibition images.
Cover: Sonia Aniceto Monsters#22 (detail) | Oil on cloth “Vichy” free embroidery stitch, 43x53x180cm, 2017 Maryam Al Qassimi “Untitled” (detail) | Mixed media on paper, 25,5 x 16 cm, 2017 Manuela Jardim Constructed Ideas - Memory Aromas II (detail) | Mixed media on burlap, 150x100 cm, 2015
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Sonia Aniceto | Portugal / Belgium Sonia Aniceto is a Portugese visual artist, lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Honors Degree in Fine Arts – Painting and Tapestry - Faculty of Fine Art of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Received a scholarship to participate in the program of Socrates / Erasmus at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels (2000). Moved to Brussels and kept studio and galleries in Lisbon. Was a resident artist of the Pianofabriek Cultural Center during the first year. Frequented at the same time the seminaries of the post-graduate of the academy of Fine Arts of Brussels. Received the official aggregation as a teacher of Fine Arts in 2005. Free student at the interuniversitary master in actual art of ULB, in 2006. Worked in the scenography ateliers of “La Monnaie” the Royal Opera House of Brussels, between 2000 and 2006. In 2007 she received a nomination for the “Prémios Talento” in Visual arts (price organised by the Ministery of foreing affairs from Portugal). She teaches in an art school since 2006. Gives art workshops for children with the international organisation Mus-e. Her artistic career has developed into frequent collaborations with galleries in Belgium, France, Portugal, Germany, Great Britain, Ukraine and USA.
Échappatoire | Acrylic on canvas, collage, screen of “Jouy” and free embroidery stitch, 30 x 30 cm, 2017
Cabra cega | Oil on cloth “Vichy” free stitch embroidery, 40 x 40 cm, 2015
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Untitled | Oil on canvas, free embroidery stitch, 45 x 45,5 cm, 2017
Monsters# 42 | Acrylic on canvas, collage, screen of “Jouy” and free embroidery stitch, 30 x 30 cm, 2017
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Marya Al Qassimi | United Arab Emirates Sheikha Maryam Al Qassimi, aka Marya Al Qassimi is a young and promising Emirate artist, member of the royal family of the Emirate of Sharjah (UAE). The young Sheikha, at the age of 24, is paradigmatic of a new royal highly creative generation, which started to become players on the international contemporary art scene at the turn of the millennium. Her beautiful surrealist paintings has been exhibited in prestigious art galleries in UAE and other countries as well. Marya Al Qassimi produces mainly automating Oil and Mixed Medium works to explore the unconscious and the unknown. Many of Al Qasimi members are distinguished writers, poets, and artists such as Sheikh Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, who is well known writer and art collector. Al Qasimi have made Sharjah a truly cultural center, and this is the reason Sharjah was chosen the cultural capital of the Muslim world in 2014. The city is full with lots of museums such as the Sharjah Art Museum and Sharjah Art Foundation, which is headed by Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi.
Untitled | Mixed media on paper; 16 x 25,5 cm; 2017
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Untitled (front) | Mixed media on paper; 25,5 x 16 cm; 2017
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Manuela Jardim | Guinea-Bissau Manuela Jardim was born in Bolama, Guinea-Bissau. She has a degree in sculpture from the University of Fine Arts in Lisbon (1975). She attended the courses of engraving, textiles and decoration at Ricardo Espírito Santo Foundation (Lisbon) and serigraphy at the Institut National d ‘Éducation Populaire in Paris. From 1984 to 1989 she worked as plastic arts technician at Faoj, and she was the author of several posters promoting the organism. Manuela Jardim joined Portugal’s representative team at the Biennial of Artists of the Mediterranean Countries in Greece in 1986 and in France in 1990. She is the author of two stamps of a philatelic block commemorating the visit of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to Guinea Bissau in 1990. She is the author of the serigraphy commemorating the Centennial of the Vasco da Gama Aquarium (Lisbon) in 1998 and also the author of the painting that was used to disseminate the Colloquium “Océan: Archipel d Archipels” of the Franco-Portuguese Institute, in 1999. In 2002/3, as plastic artist and teacher, Manuela Jardim developed a sabbatical internship at the National Museum of Ethnology in Lisbon having as her motivation the collection of Cape Verdean and Guinean Cloths hosted there. She has been part of the educational service team of the National Museum of Ethnology in Lisbon since 2008, under the cooperation protocol between the Ministries of Culture and Education.
Reencounters XIV | Mixed media on craft paper paste; 50 x 50 cm; 2008
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Constructed Ideas - Memory Aromas II | Mixed media on burlap; 150 x 100 cm; 2015 9
Thursday, 18th. Performance by
Alice Albergaria Borges & Natasha Lynch Portugal & United Kingdom
We are weavers, textile design students, at Chelsea College of Arts. As a personal and collective endeavour, we have began a project to help us communicate the historical, anthropological value of textiles by weaving and spinning in public spaces. Using our hand made looms, carved from reclaimed wood, we travel around London and allow people to engage with these ancient crafts. This created human interactions with strangers, a rare thing in a city where we keep our eyes focused with blinkers. The conversations that arose naturally led to wonder and to a lesson learned about the origins of something everyone takes for granted, yet something we all share: Fabric. This is an important dialogue, as people in general are not aware of textile processes at all, which is hard to believe, as we all depend on these so much. To know where yarn comes from and understand how it is spun and then woven into fabric changes one’s perspective on the value of cloth and yarn themselves and indeed places higher value to them, which is against the current collective Consumerist mentality towards purchasing and discarding clothing. extiles go out to the street! We invite you to be led by your curiosity and engage with us during this performance! We hope that through our efforts, we can create thoughts into different, more conscious consumer behaviour and through sharing this craft, a deeper relationship to Textiles. Biographical note: Alice Albergaria Borges was born in Lisbon in 1997. At the age of 5 she moved to the island of São Miguel, Azores, where her mother is from. She studied classical piano from 7 to 18 years old, initially in Ponta Delgada, and later in the Music School of the National Conservatory, in Lisbon. Alice studied Artistic Production – Textiles in António Arroio Art School and currently studies textile design at Chelsea College of Arts, in London. In 2015 Alice was part of the film Colo, directed by Portuguese filmmaker Teresa Villaverde, playing the main role; the film took part of the competition in the Berlinale festival 2017 and it won the Bildrausch Ring of Cinema Art from the Swiss festival Bildrausch. Besides this, she has been participating in other artistic performances and collaborations, such as Regina Frank’s The Art is Present, that took place in London Art Fair 2017. Natasha Emily Lynch was born in Manchester in 1995 and grew up in Lancashire. Coming to London to study Textile Design after completing an Art Foundation at Manchester at Chelsea College of arts has been an invaluable time, particularly the chance to be able to meet people with likewise passions has ben a change that has been incredibly beneficial to her practice.
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Marya Al Qassimi Untitled | Artist’s Book with 22 works in total; 19 x 25 cm; 2016
Concept & Curator Carlos Cabral Nunes Management Nuno Espinho
Production & Comunication Graça Rodrigues Graphic Design CCN and Nelson Chantre
Production & Comunication Colectivo Multimédia Perve Print and Copyright Perve Global, Lda
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Manuela Jardim Reencounters XI | Mixed media on craft paper paste; 50 x 50 cm; 2008
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Manuela Jardim Chromophonias I Craft dyeing on cloth 247 x 35cm; 2015