Preacher (Pregador)
MADEIRA E BORRACHA
autor: amamede
63x30x25 cm
Base – quadrado de madeira com 25 cm de lado
Abstratizante, geometric, sculpture with three plates of triangular and a rectangular wood mounted on a central pole which protrude two rubber balls of not regular spiky look.
The sculptural structure develops in three planes of space and form dihedral angles more or less acute ridges which are variable depending on the viewing angle permitting different readings according to the perspective of the observer.
The anthropomorphic and symbolic approach of the sculpture suggests a preacher.
In its geometric solidity proclaims a herald public message of its truth!
Sobre a peça escultórica
Escultura abstratizante, geomética, com três placas de madeira triangulares e uma rectangular montadas numa coluna central em que sobressaem duas esferas de borracha de aspecto eriçado e não regular.
A estrutura escultórica desenvolve-se em três planos do espaço, formando ângulos diedros e saliências mais ou menos agudas que são variáveis consoante o ângulo de observação permitindo leituras diversas de acordo com a perspectiva do observador.
A aproximação antropomórfica e simbólica da escultura sugere um Pregador. Na sua solidez geométrica proclama, como um arauto, a mensagem pública da sua verdade!
amamede (António José Mamede de Albuquerque) was born in Cape Verde in 1943. Formerly of dual nationality, in 1974 he chose Portuguese nationality.
A teacher in higher education with a PhD in Medicine, he has been devoted to Painting since 1975.
His work was exhibited for the first time at the “Exposição Artistas de Coimbra” [Coimbra Artists Exhibition] organised in 1988 by the XI Congresso Nacional de Ortopedia [XI National Orthopedics Congress]. An associate of the Movimento Artístico de Coimbra [Coimbra Artistic Movement] from 1988, in 1994 he began collaborating in the teaching of Artistic Anatomy to students of ARCA-ETAC.
He was Associate Professor at the Coimbra University College of Arts, where he taught Theoretical Anatomy (1st and 2nd year of the various licentiate’s degrees) until 2008.
He is represented in a number of private collections, mainly belonging to collectors in the Portuguese and Brazilian university environment.
in Myths of Art - an anthology of contemporary Portuguese painters - Chiado Editora 2009
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