Nominated by
Duarte Amaral Netto
Workspace, 2012, Desk artist studio, 350 x 250 x 250 cm
Opaque, 2014 Reconstituted wood used in the play "X-Office for the sculpture", wood, MDF, fittings and jet printing ink on cotton paper; Sculptural piece: 90 x 110 x 100 cm (intermediate position); Photography: 30 x 40 cm
Two together, 2011 wooden door of two of the artist's studio leaves, 85.5 x 62 x 62cm
Nunca pasa nada (the wrong side), 2012, half replica of the book "nunca Pasa Nada" (1964) by Frank Stella, padding material woods of the 1st Meeting Room ASA Factory; 209.55 x 279.4 cm.
For not to be subject to any external, 2014, French Doors artist studio of Wood intervened, Wood and hardware; 220 x 260 x 60 cm
Wall stop for this, 2012. Replica of the entrance wall of the exhibition space Appleton Square (site-specific installation). Structure wood, plasterboard and finish Formica; 300 x 800 x 420 cm.
To transform. Display. Decide whether showing. Deciding. turning; 2015 lacquered iron and Sarja_impression sublimation; 134 x 120.5 x 1 cm and Variable dimensions. Photo: Jorge Antonio Silva.
Glare 1/3, 3/3 and flash window to miss; 2015 Graphite on paper and wood natural mahogany and brass fittings. 160 x 120 cm, 160 cm and 400 x 120 x 185 x 4 cm. Photo: Antonio Jorge Silva
Simala, 2015. Model of the building of Plastic Factory offices Simala (the artist's studio), iron, oil and wick, 67 x 64 x 149 cm
We return to this and this on and Under the aegis of the place; 2015; Duratrans in light box and painted MDF and PVC tiles removed from the Simala office; 121 x 185 x 17 cm and 17 x 309 x 500 cm. Photo: Antonio Jorge Silva
Nuno Sousa Vieira
Born in Leiria, Portugal, in 1971. Nuno Sousa Vieira currently lives and works between Leiria and Lisbon. With a Masters Degree in Painting at Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa (Fine Arts University of Lisbon), he is a PhD candidate at the same school. Recent Solo Shows: “Double / Double”, SE8 Gallery, London, United Kingdom; “Instruções para pensarmos juntos”, Portuguese Consulate in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; “1:1 – 21 Artistas Contemporáneos Portugueses / Una reflexión sobre la escala en la arquitectura y la obra de arte”, Tabacalera. La Principal, Madrid, Spain; “Nasci num dia curto de inverno”, Fundação Portuguesas das Comunicações, Lisbon, Portugal; “As medidas do seu espaço e os acontecimentos do meu passado”, Q22 – Colégio das Artes da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal; “Sin piedras no hay arco”, Galeria Espacio Olvera, Seville, Spain; “Utopia”, Portuguese Consulate in Seville, Spain; “From darkness to light”, Galeria Graça Bradão, Lisbon; “The volume of the visible”, Gallerie Emmanuel Hervè, Paris; In 2010/2011, he held three important solo exhibitions: “Somos nós que mudamos quando tomamos efetivamente conhecimento do outro”, at Pavilhão Branco (Museu da Cidade) in Lisbon, “Don’t underestimate the impact of the workplace”, at Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange, United Kingdom, and “Haben Gegenstände ein Gedächtnis?”, at Hans Mayer Gallery, Germany. He has also presented a solo project at ARCO, Madrid, curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti. Other significant solo exhibitions are “Wall Stop for This”, Appleton Square, Lisbon, 2012; “Terça-feira a Sábado – 11h às 20h”, Galeria Graça Brandão, Lisbon, 2010; “Chão Morto”, Carpe Diem, Lisbon, 2009; “To Draw an Escape Plan”, Galeria Graça Brandão, Lisbon, 2009 and “Redesenhar”, Empty Cube, Lisbon, 2008. In sculptures made out of an array of discarded factory materials and old office furniture, Nuno Sousa Vieira explores opposites: consumption and usefulness versus refuse and obsolescence; the mass-produced versus the handmade; function over form versus form over function. Sousa Vieira renders utilitarian materials useless, while referencing their former functions and investing them with new life as elegant sculptural works. In Próspero (2006), for example, he transforms two wooden stepladders, perilous to climb, into gently torqued sculptures of artfully composed vertical and horizontal lines. His work is represented in several collections: PINTA – Latin America, CAV (Centro de Artes Visuais), Coleção Teixeira de Freitas, Colecção PLMJ, Coleção António Cachola, Câmara Municipal de Leiria, Coleção Paulo Pimenta, Coleção José Lima, Coleção António Albertino.www.nunosousavieira.com
