Artists

António Poppe

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Poet, visual artist, performer, lives and works in Lisbon. He completed the advanced visual arts course at Ar.Co, in Lisbon, and studied drawing and sculpture at the Royal College of Arts, London. He completed a master's degree in Performing Art and Cinema at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with a scholarship from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Luso American Development Foundation. He is the author of a hybrid work between the visual arts, poetry and performance, which he has presented since 1996 in various cultural institutions and galleries such as the Serralves Museum, MAAT, Culturgest, Gulbenkian, Carmona e Costa Foundation, Soares dos Reis Museum, ZDB Gallery, 111 Gallery, Casa Fernando Pessoa, GIAJG, among others. He has published five books: Torre de Juan Abad (Assírio e Alvim), Livro da Luz (Documenta), Medicin (Douda Correria), Come Coral (Douda Correria), O Agitador e a Corrente (written with Mumtazz and published by Mariposa Azual). "For me, the creative space here is a blind one, yet it is incredible because it is a form of liberation, though it also brings exhaustion. Drawing this way is a very slow process of discovery, everything is drawn in pencil (…) and using a template. (…) I am in a place where I have the complete geometry, I have the sphere, and within it I can hold all the chaos, all the dispersion, and all the freedom of not being contained by a sphere". António Poppe in interview with Miguel Nabinho