Sculptures
António Bolota
António Bolota
António Bolota began exhibiting in the mid-1990s, bringing in the artistic universe knowledge from engineering, his area of studies. A series of technical expertise are convened to the creation of sculptures which confront the space, or merge in the architecture.
The work of Bolota always responds to a specific place, it relates with architecture and it is the result of an operation of manipulation of the forces which act on the bodies, such as gravity, weight, attraction, tension or balance. The scale, the relation with the architecture, the relation with the floor, the relation with the body of the spectator, the rigour on the design and on the finishing of the surface and the use of certain materials, constitute a grammar which refers to the experiments carried out in the late 1960s, in the tradition of modern sculpture.
He was one of the artists selected for the EDP New Artists Award, in 2009. For the exhibition, he made a monumental wedge in steel, plaster and iron oxide, in suspension and 1 mm from the floor. Another remarkable intervention was the first exhibition in Quadrado Azul, consisting in a wall sustained by an iron beam and 40 cm from the floor, requiring the confrontation of the viewer with the weight of the wall, when traversing the gallery space.
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Solo Exhibitions (selection)
- 2012 — Sculptures, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2014 — António Bolota, Gallery Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2010 — The last light of the day, Pavilhão Branco, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2010 — Untitled, Ermida de Guadalupe, Algarve, Portugal
- 2010 — Untitled, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal
- 2010 — Untitled, Uma Certa Falta de Coerência, Porto, Portugal
Group Exhibitions (selection)
- 2011 — Como Proteger-se do Tigre, 16ª Bienal de Cerveira, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal
- 2013 — António Filipe, Parkour, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2012 — shapes and forces, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal
- 2012 — Obras do ARCO, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal
- 2011 — Colectiva de Artistas, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2010 — Junho das artes, Óbidos, Portugal
- 2010 — Uma mesa e 3 cadeiras, Etic, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2009 — Estados Gerais, Artecontempo, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2009 — Prémio EDP Novos Artistas, Central Tejo, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2008 — Avenida 211, Avenida da Liberdade, 211, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2008 — Articulações, Allgarve, Algarve, Portugal
- 2008 — Nota de Encomenda, Assírio e Alvim, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2008 — Open Studio, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2007 — Out to Punch, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2007 — Objecto simulacro, Hospital Júlio de Matos, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2006 — Yes No, Auditório de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
- 2006 — Arco Almada, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2006 — Intervenção na paisagem, Lavre, Portugal
- 2006 — Telhado, Interpress, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2013 — Circuito de Arte Pública de Paredes, public space, Paredes
- 2014 — Um cadáver esquisito para o século XXI, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisboa, Portugal
- 2014 — From the factory which vanishes at Tagus bay, Industrial Museum of Baía do Tejo, Barreiro, Portugal
- 2014 — LandArt Cascais, Quinta do Pisão and Casa de Santa Maria Santa Maria, Cascais, Portugal
Collections
- , Ar.Co, Portugal
- , Fundação EDP, Portugal
- , BESart collection, Portugal
Works
Exhibitions
shapes and forces
Susana Mendes Silva, António Bolota, Zulmiro de Carvalho, Alexandre Estrela, Fernando Lanhas, Candice Lin, João Queiroz, Isabel Ribeiro, Arlindo Silva, Ângelo de Sousa, Sérgio Taborda, Pedro Tropa, Willem Weismann, Christine Fowler
Group Exhibition
António Bolota, Paulo Nozolino, Isabel Garrett, João Queiroz, Ângelo de Sousa, Francisco Tropa, Pedro Tropa
The last light of the day
António Bolota
Untitled
António Bolota
News
Ana Pérez-Quiroga, António Bolota and Hugo Canoilas at SNBA, Lisbon
António Bolota at Studio-Museum Júlio Pomar, Lisbon
