Nuno Vicente
Born in Chartres (France) in 1981
Lives and works in Berlin
(…) Influenced by the Arte Povera, Concept Art as well as by Joseph Beuys, for Nuno Vicente it is not the final work that is crucial. Instead, his works are created only through the process of thinking and experience of the viewer. Playing with the processuality, with the fragility and volatility of elementary materials in connection with existential questions combines in his work quite naturally with a sensitive presence and poetic impact of the materials involved.
(Text by Anne Faser. Berlin 2010)
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http://www.nuno-vicente.com/
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Education:
2006 Degree in Visual Art from the school of Fine Arts of Caldas da Rainha, (ESAD) Portugal
2004 Painting Bachelor from ESTGAD, Portugal
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2012 Sculptures made of earth, fire, air, water; Kunstraum João Cocteau, Berlin (part I, II)
2010 Dropping time onto the matter, Rosalux, Berlin
2009 Soluções Poeticas para Coisa Nenhuma, Paulo Amaro Gallery, Lisbon
2008 Clareira, Paulo Amaro Gallery, Lisbon
The miracle of life (a poem of Albert Einstein), Museum António Duarte, Portugal
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2012 Presentation of sculptures developed during project residency in Sardinia; at Super Market, Berlin & Meme gallery, Cagliari/ Italy
2011 ESAD 20 anos de Artes Plásticas (selection of artists graduated by the school of fine arts of Caldas da Rainha, between 1991 and 2011), Edificio XXI, Lisbon
D´abord les florêt, participation with Land Art project at the Center of Arts, La Maison Laurentine, France.
2010 Memo.Real collateral event in the August in Art: Biennial in Visual
Arts, Varna, Bulgaria
…And Then Again, Museum of the city, Lisbon
Off Loop, Loop Barcelona
Plot in situ, Acud Kunstverein, Berlin
2009 Physical rehabilitation, Transforma, Lisbon
ARCO, Feria de Madrid, Madrid
2008 Enganar a Fome, Espaço Avenida, Lisbon
2007 Millenium Anteciparte Awards, Museum of Natural History, Lisbon
Arte Lisboa, Fil, Lisbon
Inauguration of the Museum, Museu Bernardo, Portugal
2006 ESAD 06, Sociedade Industrial Ceres, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
Iniciativa X, Arte Contempo Gallery, Lisbon;
Ás portas do mundo, Museum of the city of Évora, Portugal
Awards:
2007 Millenium Anteciparte, Selection of Young Portuguese Artists, Museum of Natural History, Lisbon
2007 Selection for the program Atelier-Museum António Duarte, Artist in residence, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
2006 IV Biennial, Prémios Thomas de Mello, Portugal
Born in Chartres (France) in 1981
Lives and works in Berlin
(…) Influenced by the Arte Povera, Concept Art as well as by Joseph Beuys, for Nuno Vicente it is not the final work that is crucial. Instead, his works are created only through the process of thinking and experience of the viewer. Playing with the processuality, with the fragility and volatility of elementary materials in connection with existential questions combines in his work quite naturally with a sensitive presence and poetic impact of the materials involved.
(Text by Anne Faser. Berlin 2010)
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http://www.nuno-vicente.com/
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Education:
2006 Degree in Visual Art from the school of Fine Arts of Caldas da Rainha, (ESAD) Portugal
2004 Painting Bachelor from ESTGAD, Portugal
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2012 Sculptures made of earth, fire, air, water; Kunstraum João Cocteau, Berlin (part I, II)
2010 Dropping time onto the matter, Rosalux, Berlin
2009 Soluções Poeticas para Coisa Nenhuma, Paulo Amaro Gallery, Lisbon
2008 Clareira, Paulo Amaro Gallery, Lisbon
The miracle of life (a poem of Albert Einstein), Museum António Duarte, Portugal
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2012 Presentation of sculptures developed during project residency in Sardinia; at Super Market, Berlin & Meme gallery, Cagliari/ Italy
2011 ESAD 20 anos de Artes Plásticas (selection of artists graduated by the school of fine arts of Caldas da Rainha, between 1991 and 2011), Edificio XXI, Lisbon
D´abord les florêt, participation with Land Art project at the Center of Arts, La Maison Laurentine, France.
2010 Memo.Real collateral event in the August in Art: Biennial in Visual
Arts, Varna, Bulgaria
…And Then Again, Museum of the city, Lisbon
Off Loop, Loop Barcelona
Plot in situ, Acud Kunstverein, Berlin
2009 Physical rehabilitation, Transforma, Lisbon
ARCO, Feria de Madrid, Madrid
2008 Enganar a Fome, Espaço Avenida, Lisbon
2007 Millenium Anteciparte Awards, Museum of Natural History, Lisbon
Arte Lisboa, Fil, Lisbon
Inauguration of the Museum, Museu Bernardo, Portugal
2006 ESAD 06, Sociedade Industrial Ceres, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
Iniciativa X, Arte Contempo Gallery, Lisbon;
Ás portas do mundo, Museum of the city of Évora, Portugal
Awards:
2007 Millenium Anteciparte, Selection of Young Portuguese Artists, Museum of Natural History, Lisbon
2007 Selection for the program Atelier-Museum António Duarte, Artist in residence, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
2006 IV Biennial, Prémios Thomas de Mello, Portugal
Dead Bird
Nuno Vicente infuses the poetic with the practical, often creating objects to contain the impossible: memories, existence, movement, time. Death and the return to earth is a thread that runs throughout his work. In Dead Bird (2011), he found a dead bird on a path in a forest and cremated it on the spot. He then mixed the ashes in poured concrete to form a stone and return the bird to the place of its death. The stone sits as an attempt to capture the ephemeral, preserving the bird from decay and turning it into a marker or temporary shrine. By using the form of a stone and returning it to the earth, Vicente completes a sort of circle-of-life. Over time it will be reabsorbed by and integrated into the surrounding natural world. With only the woods as witness to Vicente’s gift of return, the piece becomes a silent performance where artwork, artist and action intertwine.
(text by Lauren K Reid 2012)
Dead bird
Haute-Marne, France 2011
Bird axes, cement, water
3x4x7cm
Nuno Vicente infuses the poetic with the practical, often creating objects to contain the impossible: memories, existence, movement, time. Death and the return to earth is a thread that runs throughout his work. In Dead Bird (2011), he found a dead bird on a path in a forest and cremated it on the spot. He then mixed the ashes in poured concrete to form a stone and return the bird to the place of its death. The stone sits as an attempt to capture the ephemeral, preserving the bird from decay and turning it into a marker or temporary shrine. By using the form of a stone and returning it to the earth, Vicente completes a sort of circle-of-life. Over time it will be reabsorbed by and integrated into the surrounding natural world. With only the woods as witness to Vicente’s gift of return, the piece becomes a silent performance where artwork, artist and action intertwine.
(text by Lauren K Reid 2012)
Dead bird
Haute-Marne, France 2011
Bird axes, cement, water
3x4x7cm
