Renato Ferrão

Renato Ferrão works since the beginning of the last decade and was recently awarded with Prémio de Artes Plásticas União Latina 2010. The jury underlined the maturity he handles the space, the analysis and original rereading of classical concepts and dynamics of modern sculpture, like weight, volume, tension and fragility, sensitivity and diversity of the chosen materials, as well as the poetic transfiguration of everyday objects.

For the exhibition of the selected artists, Ferrão presented the installation Vida Material, previously presented at Quadrado Azul, and composed by extenders, a chair, a dresser and a plate, displayed as two sculptures in tension. Graduated in sculpture, the artist has been exploring physical laws and internal mechanics of functional objects, in a constant challenge to the viewer, sometimes faced with the threat of danger to their physical integrity. Light is also an element of interest in a practice traversed by experimentation.

The name of Renato Ferrão is also connected with the foundation, with other artists, of one of the most relevant experiences in an alternative circuit of creation and exhibition generated in Porto, along the last decade: the space Salão Olímpico.

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Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2011 — Peça sonâmbula, Espaço Campanhã, Porto, Portugal
2010 — Vida material, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal
2009 — Estúdio, Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 — Fóssil de microhabitat, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal
2006 — Quem tem olho é rei, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal
2012 — Peça de substituição, Chiado 8 – Arte contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal
2007 — Impreciso, In Transit, Porto, Portugal (with Nuno Ramalho)
2006 — Longa duração, Mad Woman in the Attic, Porto, Portugal
2008 — A C ack of ence, A Certain Lack of Coherence, Porto, Portugal
2009 — Episódio 2: Senhor fantasma, vamos falar, Emissores reunidos – Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
2007 — 17.38' 51, Projecto Apêndice, Porto, Portugal

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2014 — Lei de OHN, Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon, Portugal
2011 — Premio União Latina, Centro Cultural de Cascais, Cascais, Portugal
2008 — part-ilha, Spike Island, Bristol, United Kingdom
2010 — Display: Objects, Buildings and Space, Experimentadesign, Palácio Quintela, Lisbon, Portugal (with Nuno Ramalho)
2008 — A situação está tensa mas sob control, Arte contempo, Lisbon, Portugal
2007 — Rastos, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal
2007 — Depósito: Anotações sobre Densidade e Conhecimento, Reitoria da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
2006 — Busca Pólos, Pavilhão Centro de Portugal, Coimbra, Portugal
2006 — Em torno, Palácio de Cristal, Porto, Portugal (with Nuno Ramalho)
2017 — Que farei eu com esta espada?, Zaratan - Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 — Uma Loja, Cinco Casas e uma Escola, Colégio das Artes, Coimbra, Portugal
2009 — A nossa língua não cura, Espaço Avenida 211, Lisbon, Portugal
2017 — THEM OR US! A Project on Scientific, Social and Political Fiction, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal
2009 — Antes de chegarem palavras, Espaço Campanhã, Porto, Portugal
2009 — A Arte e o Seu Resto, XV Bienal de Cerveira, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal