António Palolo (Évora, 1946 — Lisboa, 2000) was a Portuguese artist and painter.[1]
Biography
editPalolo held his first one-person exhibition in 1964 at 111 Gallery, Lisbon, with great success. His early works were closely connected to the Pop idiom, mingling figurative and geometric elements.
In the 1970s, he changed into a rigorous type of abstraction where he came closer than ever to the minimalist program; simultaneously, he expanded his art practice into experimental film, performance and video.
In the 1980s, Palolo's work briefly followed the international return to figurative expressionist painting; and in his final mode he synthesized the geometric structure of his 1970s painting with the subtlety of color and texture experienced in the eighties.
In 1995, Palolo held a large retrospective exhibition at the Modern Art Centre, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.
Bibliography
edit- Barroso, Eduardo Pais – António Palolo. Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, 2007. ISBN 978-972-21-1886-6
- A.A.V.V. – António Palolo 1963–1995. Lisboa: Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1995.
- Pernes, Fernando – Panorama Arte Portuguesa no Século XX. Porto: Campo das Letras; Fundação de Serralves, 1999. ISBN 972-610-212-X
References
edit- ^ Pinto, António Costa (1998). Modern Portugal. Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship. ISBN 9780930664176. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
External links
edit- Camões Institute [1] Archived 2012-01-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Berardo Museum, Lisbon [2]
- Modern Art Centre, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon [3][permanent dead link]