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Eduarda Ferreira
 
lives and works in Porto, Portugal, where she was born in 1962. 
artist statement

 

Not everything comes from an empty space and a solitary moment. The inspiration almost always comes from daily life, the details, the shadows, the planes that appear in the architecture,  from photographs.
The tools I use are diverse: brushes, clothes, papers, cards, the hand. The techinques are varied and they come as a response to the curiosity of an experimentation, other times after the insatisfaction with a result. I use oil paint, acryilic, enamel, collages of materials collected on everyday life. 
I like to plan my work ahead , but I often find that letting things happen by chance suggest better paths and more interesting solutions.
The works result of an exercise of freedom, I depart in every work looking for something to which I identify myself, following the development of a rational thought, trying to obtain a reassuring harmony, or simply to express an emotion. 
A work gets done when it reflects an inner truth. But when it ends the restlessness allways returns as does the thrill of a new begining.

Eduarda Ferreira.

reviews

 

“Here Eduarda Ferreira shows abstraction, figuration, and accomplishment. It is about simplicity and reality, surrounding of an unspeakable evident. Therefore, visible without imposing, as clear as verbally untranslatable.”

FERNANDO PERNES, in leaflet of exhibition  room

“Texturas e Símbolos, Desenhos e Objetos ”, Cooperativa Árvore 2007



“Eduarda Ferreira cultivates a painting stripped away of all staging, in the rigor that refuses any caving to the easy effect, always waging on authenticity that even suggests some tendentious approximation to minimalism. Thus, a painting that plays with minimal elements: lines, textured smudges, symbols (circles, double rings, spirals), figures coming or going. It is certainly possible to say that this painting is surrounded with mystery, trying however to tell stories of a lived reality. But what is expressed, painting after painting, beyond any dramatism, is a search for a soothing balance, a deep yearning for harmony. The search has either melancholic either ironic tones and, nevertheless, the effect is always of an attained serenity, enhanced by the format and size of the canvas. Eduarda Ferreira says, in an effort to explain her work, that in the makeup of these canvas she “looks for a reassuring logic that is perhaps inspired in scientific knowledge”, that of the painter herself.”

ARSÉNIO MOTA, journalist, 2010

a, 2010

 

 

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EXHIBITIONS

Solo

2007 – “Texturas e Símbolos, Desenhos e Objectos”, Cooperativa Árvore, Porto; 

Convento do Desagravo – Vila Pouca da Beira

2011 - Universidade Lusófona

 

Collective
1987 – Fundação Eng. António de Almeida, Porto.

1988 – “O Engenheiro e a Arte”, Fundação Eng. António de Almeida, Porto.

1990 – TLP Espaço Arte, Porto.

1996 – Grupo Desportivo da Portugal Telecom, Porto.

1999 – Alunos do Atelier Espaço de Arte, Porto.

2000 – “3ª Bienal de Artes Plásticas – O Vidro Ano 2000”, Marinha Grande; Bienal Internacional de Artes Plásticas de San Ildefonso La Granja, Segóvia; “Arte PT”, Porto.

2001 – Casa de Cultura de Paredes; Encontro Cultural do Clube PT, Torres Novas; “Prémio Nacional de Pintura Pintor António Joaquim” – Artistas de Gaia, Vila Nova de Gaia; “Arte na PT”, Porto.

2002 – “Prémio Vespeira, VII Bienal de Artes Plásticas Cidade do Montijo”; “Artistas PT”, Porto e Lisboa; “XIX Exposição Colectiva dos Sócios da Árvore”, Mercado Ferreira Borges, Porto; “4ª Bienal Artes Plásticas – O Vidro na Arte  a Arte do Vidro”, Marinha Grande; Galeria Craesbeck, Porto.

2003 – “Prémio de Artes Plásticas Henrique Silva”; “Trajectórias”, Galeria do Palácio de Cristal, Porto; “XX Exposição Colectiva dos Sócios da Árvore”, Cooperativa Árvore e Galeria Vilar/Árvore, Porto; “VIII Exposição Colectiva Arte PT”.

2004 – “XXI Exposição Colectiva dos Sócios da Árvore”, Cooperativa Árvore, Porto; “XIX Exposição Colectiva Arte PT”.

2005 – “XXII Exposição Colectiva dos Sócios da Árvore”, Cooperativa Árvore, Porto; “Concurso Internacional de Pintura – Clube Naval Povoense”; “Encontro Cultural do Clube PT”, Évora; “XX Exposição Colectiva Arte PT”.

2006 – “Encontrartes”, Paredes; “6ª Bienal Artes Plásticas”, Marinha Grande; “XXI Exposição Colectiva Arte PT”.

2007 – “Gotas da mesma água”, em conjunto com Teresa Tavares, PT – Espaço de Arte Tenente Valadim, Porto; Convento do Desagravo – Vila Pouca da Beira

2008 – Universos a Cores, Espaço Latina – Livraria Latina, Porto; Goisarte, Vila de Góis (Julho); XXIII Exposição colectiva dos sócios da Árvore (Julho); Prémio Abel Manta, Gouveia (Agosto); 7ª Bienal de Artes Plásticas da Marinha Grande (Setembro e Outubro); 

2011  –Marco de Canaveses (Prémio Carmen Miranda)

2012 – Em três traços (espaço Artes PT); 

2013 – 2ª Bienal Internacional Mulheres D’Artes (Museu de Espinho); 

2017 – Evento Simplesmente Vinho; 
 

 PRIZES

2005 – 1º Prémio / 1st Prize – “Concurso Internacional de Pintura – Clube Naval Povoense Cidade da Póvoa de Varzim”.
2008 - Menção Honrosa/ Honour Award Prémio Abel Manta

© 2019 Eduarda Ferreira Pintura

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