Nominated by
Daniel Blaufuks
Kranker Engel, 2000,
Tree in the Winter, steel and aluminium, 26 pieces, 13 x 13 x 60 cm each, SMAK Collection, Gent (Belgium)
O silêncio de..., 1984 / 2012,
Steel and ashes of texts, 40 pieces, 6 x 16 x 8 cm each, (work in progress)
Unborn, 2001,
Steel, 9 sculptures, 325 x 65 x 65 cm each, Private collection (Holland)
Extinguish my eyes, 2005,
Steel, 130 x 130 x 214 cm, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum collection (Denmark)
The world becomes silent, 2004,
Steel, Jardim da Sereia, Coimbra (Portugal)
Comer o Coração (with Vera Mantero),
2004, Steel sculpture and performance, 690 x 700 x 400 cm
Despertar, 2004,
Steel, Santa Maria Hospital, Lisbon
What shall I do when you are not here?, 2004,
Steel, 524 x 120 x 210 cm, Museum Folkwang Essen collection (Germany)
Onde estou?, 2007,
Steel, 2300 x 100 x 200 cm, Volume! Foundation, Rome (Italy)
I want everything from you, 2006,
Steel, St. Peterskirche, Leuven (Belgium)
Rui Chafes
(Lisbon, Portugal, 1966) Lives and works in Lisbon.
He attended sculpture at the Fine Arts Academy in Lisbon between 1984 and 1989. He studied with Gerhard Merz at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf between 1990 and 1992. Exhibiting regularly since 1980 in Portugal and abroad, Rui Chafes representied Portugal at the Venice Biennale (with José Pedro Croft and Pedro Cabrita Reis in 1995) and at the São Paulo Biennale (in a joint project with Vera Mantero, 2004).
His work has been exhibited in institutions like the CAM Centro de Arte Moderna / Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), Museu de Serralves (Oporto, Portugal), Museu Colecção Berardo (Lisbon), S.M.A.K. (Ghent, Belgium), Museum Folkwang Essen (Essen, Germany), Esbjerg Kunstmuseum (Esbjerg, Danmark), Kunsthallen Nikolaj (Copenhagen, Denmark), Volume!, Italy (Roma, Italy), Eva Klabin Foundation (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Luis Seoane (A Coruña, Spain), among others.
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