Located in the historic center of Lisbon, Perve Galeria exhibits modern and contemporary art since 2000. The gallery develops and promotes nationally and internationally artistic, cultural and technological projects. It aims at promoting artists coming from Portuguese speaking countries. The gallery history includes exhibitions at art fairs and the organization of national and international artistic initiatives, with emphasis on curatorial projects.
Artists presented at AKAA 2022 :
José Chambel, Bertina Lopes, Ricardo Rangel, Ernesto Shikhani
Born in São Tomé and Príncipe, José Chambel lives and works in Portugal. He studied at the Photography Institute, from 1992 to 1994. His photographic work is in a language of documentary nature, developing projects where he explores the light through black and white, with themes centered on the preservation of cultural, tangible and intangible heritage, in Portugal, São Tomé and Principe and Cape Verde. Among the various projects that José Chambel carried out are "Tchilóli" (São Tomé and Príncipe), "Tabanka" (Cape Verde) or "Capital" (Ilha do Príncipe). His work is represented in several public and private collections,
Untitled (Tchilóli Series)
1997
80 x 60 cm
Hahnemühle Baryta FB paper
Edition 3/6
Courtesy Perve Galeria
Bertina Lopes, an internationally renowned artist, was born in Maputo in 1924. She attended school in Maputo and completed secondary school in Lisbon where she began to study painting and drawing with Lino António and Celestino Alves.
The cultural and artistic atmosphere in Portugal at that time was suffocated by the dictatorial regime’s censorship, especially regarding the creation of what was defined as "black art".
In 1961, for political reasons and due to strong oppression by colonialism, Lopes left Mozambique for Portugal. In Lisbon she met the director of Galeria III, through whom she continued to investigate the stylistic and conceptual novelties of avant-garde painting, popularizing it to many artists and intellectuals who had been in Portugal. In 1993, in Lisbon, Bertina Lopes was nominated "Comendadora das Artes" by the President of Portugal, Mário Soares. Later that year, she became Cultural Advisor of the Embassy of Mozambique in Italy.
Ricardo Achiles Rangel was born in Maputo in 1924 and has later passed away in 2009. With African, Asian and European roots, he began his contact with photography as a graphic worker, by the hand of Otílio de Vasconcelos, an elephant hunter in 1941. He was the first non-white photographer hired by the newspaper Notícias da Tarde in 1952, and in 1956 he then joined Jornal Notícias, the main newspaper in Mozambique.
He worked as chief photographer on weekly A Tribuna from 1960 to 1964. In 1970 he joined other journalists to found a weekly newspaper called Tempo, which had as its editorial line the opposition to the colonial regime. He became the target of the the political portuguese Police, under the regime of António de Oliveira Salazar and many of his photographs were banned or destroyed by censorship, which were only made public after the independence of Mozambique in 1975.
Untitled
Circa 1960
30,5 x 24 cm
Vintage photography
Courtesy Perve Galeria
Ernesto SHIKHANI was born in 1934 in Mozambique. Shikhani´s work is recognized and admired by many of his contemporary Mozambican artists. His work is not a subsidiary of any specific style: although influenced by traditional Mozambique culture, it shows clear signs of a very original and unique approach to the modern and contemporary african art. Shikhani presented himself as a nationalist facing various obstacles, always pursuing ideas of freedom. His more recent painting and drawing show signs and colors, sometimes aggressive but also vibrant and radiant. From 1970 he began to devote himself to painting along with the sculptures he keept on doing. In 1973, he was given an artistic grant by Gulbenkian Foundation that allowed him to live in Lisbon to prepare a solo exhibition in Estoril. The art grant was taken from him after the Political Police of the dictatorship found the exhibition to be subversive which force him to leave back those artworks in Portugal with a close friend until they were found by Perve Galeria, more than 30 years later, in 2005.
Untitled (Peace series)
1993
60 x 89 cm
Mixed media on paper
Courtesy Perve Galeria
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