Zulmiro de Carvalho

Simple shapes, sober volumes, rigorous constructions, smooth and well-groomed surfaces, constitute the vocabulary of Zulmiro de Carvalho, an artist who, since the mid-sixties, makes sculpture and drawing, practices directed by a constant research on forms and plastic language. His sculptures for outdoor spaces are well-known.

In London, between 1971 and 1973, he attended a postgraduate course at St. Martin's School of Art, prominent place in the sculpture of the 70s where teachers like Philip King, Anthony Caro and William Tucker were teaching. There, the artist would come to consolidate certain elements of a minimalist grammar, already present in his precedent work: the conceptual rigour, simple and repetitive shapes, geometric and modular systems, the refusal of pedestals, the perceptual environment, appreciation for industrial materials, and the abandonment of manual execution. Numerous materials arise along the activity of the sculptor, shaping his expressive concerns: first metal, then stone (granite and marble), wood, iron and corten steel.

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Solo Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2014 — Memoriais, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal
  • 2012 — Esculturas e Desenhos 1980-2012, Museu Abade Pedrosa, Santo Tirso, Portugal
  • 2012 — Sculptures, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2009 — Desenhos, Galeria Amiarte, Porto, Portugal
  • 2018 — Escultura 1968-2018, Auditório Municipal de Gondomar, Gondomar, Portugal
  • 2017 — Esculturas, Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal

Group Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2020 — Refracções Camonianas. Artistas do Séc. XXI em Diálogo com Camões, Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro, Coimbra, Portugal
  • 2013 — Escultura abstrata nas décadas de 1960/1970, Museu Municipal Abade Pedrosa, Santo Tirso, Portugal
  • 2012 — shapes and forces, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal
  • 2013 — Escultura abstrata nas décadas de 1960/1970, Galeria Municipal de Matosinhos, Matosinhos, Portugal
  • 2012 — Um texto, uma obra, Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2012 — Escultura no picadeiro, Antigo Picadeiro do Colégio dos Nobres, Lisbon, Portugal

Sculptures in public space (selection)

  • 2012 — Linha da terra e do rio, Parque de Escultura Contemporânea, Almourol, Vila Nova da Barquinha, Portugal
  • 2009 — Crossing light, Mokpo, South Korea
  • 2006 — Sol e o mar, Leça da Palmeira, Portugal

Awards

  • 1995, 1st Prize, Sculpture contest for Centro de Informática da Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
  • 1993, 1st Prize, Contest for Medalha Comemorativa dos 100 anos do Porto Leixões, Porto, Portugal
  • 1986, Grande Prémio de Escultura, III Exposição de Artes Plásticas, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 1982, Grande Prémio de Escultura, III Bienal de Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal
  • 1985, Prémio Especial de Escultura, 1.ª Exposição de Arte Contemporânea A. F. Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
  • 1984, Prémio Aquisição Lagos 84, Portugal
  • 1982, Prémio Aquisição, 1.ª Exposição Nacional de Desenho, Cooperativa Árvore, Portugal
  • 1969, Honorable Mention, Silver Medal, exhibition of the 100th anniversary of the death of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, Amarante, Portugal
  • 1967, 2nd Prize Drawing and Engraving, Exposição das Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, Portugal

Collections

  • , Assembleia Regional Legislativa dos Açores, Portugal
  • , Banco Comercial Português, Portugal
  • , Banco Português do Atlântico, Portugal
  • , British Museum, London, United Kingdom
  • , Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Portugal
  • , Matosinhos Town Hall, Portugal
  • , Companhia Portuguesa Radio Marconi, Lisbon, Portugal
  • , Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
  • , Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
  • , Museu Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, Amarante, Portugal
  • , Museu Internacional de Escultura de Santo Tirso, Portugal

Works

Untitled, 2012

Corten steel

90 x 125 x 250 cm (2 works), 180 x 180 x 90 cm (1 work), 125 x 125 x 250 cm (1 work)

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