Arlindo Silva

The work of Arlindo Silva has been based on the capture of instants from the everyday life, through a very particular process: each moment is registered in photography, and then converted into an image carefully painted. The transference from the photography to the painting is the process which brings other extent to the notion of instantaneous.

The subjects of the artist, who also works with the drawing, are concentrated in situations from his personal life, with family and friends. Besides the affective dimension in the act of rescuing these moments from forgetfulness, the painting presents an experience of reality and an individual vision of the world.

These are works which also give a testimony of a specific artistic context, lived by the artist himself: the Porto’s art scene in the last ten years. Almost all the portrayed are artists working in the city and graduated from the Faculdade de Belas Artes (faculty of fine arts), at the beginning of the last decade.

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Solo Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2014 — Next morning, Centro de Arte Contemporânea Graça Morais, Bragança, Portugal
  • 2010 — Arlindo Silva no Coerência, Uma Certa Falta de Coerência, Porto, Portugal
  • 2009 — Mãe, Galeria MCO Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
  • 2008 — A Espuma dos Dias, Galeria MCO Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
  • 2006 — Sónia, Galeria PISOZERO, MCO Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
  • 2003 — Perdi a memória, Galeria Bores&Mallo, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2013 — Sun and Moon, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal
  • 2020 — Presente, Box, Appleton - Associação Cultural, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2014 — Coração e Cinzas, Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães, Portugal
  • 2005 — Noites Bravas, Galeria PISOZERO, MCO Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
  • 2014 — Sara and André, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2005 — Verão Azul, Galeria Artadentro, Faro, Portugal

Group Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2010 — MONO, (group GICAPC/ CORES CAPC 1976/ 1978), CAPC, Coimbra, Portugal
  • 2014 — Apesar de tudo ainda se fodia, Maus Hábitos, Porto, Portugal
  • 2015 — Au sud d'aujourd'hui: Art contemporain portugais [sans le Portugal] , Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, France
  • 2019 — Ver as Vozes dos Artistas #2, Maus Hábitos, Porto, Portugal
  • 2017 — Forever Young, Casa das Artes, Vigo, Spain
  • 2018 — Intersticial: Diálogos no espaço entre acontecimentos II, Núcleo de Arte da Oliva, São João da Madeira, Portugal
  • 2020 — Que horas são que horas - Uma galeria de Histórias, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Portugal
  • 2022 — Este mundo não nos pertence, Espaço João Espregueira Mendes, Porto, Portugal
  • 2009 — Está a morrer e não quer ver, Espaço Campanhã, Porto, Portugal
  • 2012 — shapes and forces, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal
  • 2008 — Falso Fim, Reflexus Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal (with Sónia Neves)
  • 2007 — Alvorada, Apêndice, Porto, Portugal (with Sónia Neves)
  • 2011 — Don’t shit where you eat — O espaço doméstico em performance, CAPC, Coimbra
  • 2006 — Busca Pólo, Centro Cultural de Vila Flor, Guimarães, Portugal
  • 2015 — …Eu e os outros, Museu de Arte Contemporânea – Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2019 — Trabalho Capital: Ensaio sobre gestos e fragmentos, Oliva Creative Factory, S.João da Madeira, Portugal
  • 2017 — THEM OR US! A Project on Scientific, Social and Political Fiction, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal
  • 2018 — 10 Years, Centro de Arte Contemporânea Graça Morais, Bragança, Portugal
  • 2020 — Refracções Camonianas. Artistas do Séc. XXI em Diálogo com Camões, Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro, Coimbra, Portugal
  • 2019 — Motel Coimbra #4: O Mundo em Trânsito, Colégio das Artes, Coimbra, Portugal
  • 2009 — A Mula Ruge, Espaço Campanhã, Porto, Portugal
  • 2006 — Proxecto-Edición, A Mula, Fair-Exhibition of Independent Publishers, Pontevedra, Spain
  • 2012 — knell dobre glas, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon/ Porto, Portugal
  • 2008 — Proxecto-Edición, A Mula, Fair-Exhibition of Independent Publishers, Pontevedra, Spain
  • 2011 — Na Frente/Au front, Projecto FBAUP Saison Portugaise 2010/2011, Arras, France
  • 2007 — Antimonumentos, Galeria António Henriques, Viseu, Portugal
  • 2020 — Trabalho Capital # Greve Geral, cur. Paulo Mendes, Centro de Arte Oliva, S. João da Madeira, Portugal
  • 2018 — do tirar polo natural. Inquérito ao retrato português, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2011 — Huma Sorte de Academia, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
  • 2009 — Entroncamento, Espaço Avenida, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2006 — Feira de Lisboa de Arte Contemporânea, Galeria MCO, FIL, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2012 — Cinco Séculos de Desenho na Coleção da Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, Porto, Portugal
  • 2007 — Grande Prémio de Desenho, Senhorio, Porto, Portugal
  • 2019 — Ai os Ais de Tanta Gente, Atelier Caldeiras, CACE Centro Cultural, Porto, Portugal
  • 2018 — Europe: Bad New Days, Museu Soares dos Reis, Porto, Portugal
  • 2006 — Young Painters Giants — Stock House, MCO Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
  • 2007 — Group exhibition, Reflexus Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal (with Sónia Neves)
  • 2012 — Collecting Collections and Concepts, Fábrica ASA, Guimarães, Portugal
  • 2018 — Alegoria, Espaço MIRA, Porto, Portugal
  • 2006 — A Mula n’Monte, Fair of fanzines and exhibition of originals at space of Monte, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2007 — PaperBack. Edicións baratas – Newspapers, Paperworksm Posters, Papergames, Paperfiles, MARCO, Vigo, Spain
  • 2006 — Cospe-Aqui, Exhibition of original boards as pretext of the launching of the fanzine at the space Velha-a-Branca, Braga, Portugal
  • 2006 — Wall Paper — Stock House, MCO Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal

Collections

  • , RAR (Holding) S.A., Portugal
  • , Fundação Ilídio Pinho, Portugal
  • , Fundação PLMJ, Portugal
  • , Universidade do Minho, Portugal
  • , FBAUP, Portugal

Works

“The poor bastard”, 2003

Oil on canvas

54 x 81 cm

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