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DILEMA | EE GROUP SHOW 2020
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DIA D | EE Group Show 2019
At Espaço Exibicionista Gallery in Lisbon.
From July 4th to August 31st, 2020
ARTISTS: Alexandre Alonso, Ana Monteiro, Cias - Tattoos and Artwork, Coderch & Malavia, Sculptors, Duarte Vitoria, Duma Arantes, Emanuel de Sousa, Felipe Raizer, Gabriel Garcia, Hugo Silva, Jacqueline De Montaigne, João Fortuna, Jorge Humberto Joh, Lara Roseiro, Luis Melo, MFleming, Martinho Dias, Nuno Raminhos, Paula Rosa, Ana Paulina Goca, Petri Salo, Ricardo Passos, Rogério Timóteo, Silvia Marieta e Valentim Quaresma
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Extremely Devious Journal Entry
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Hi all you magnificent people!
How's life going?
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Recently I was invited to give a lecture at Almada Museum, in Almada, Portugal, by Cidadão Exemplar (which is a cool and dynamic group of artists who have carried out a lot of initiatives in the art field. This came in the sequence of my last exhibition, promoted by the same group, which gladly had a great feedback by visitors.
I must confess I've always avoided these kind of events. I'm more used to the idea of my work speaking for myself than myself speaking about my work. Although, I think I've already mentioned in a previous journal that I'm terribly revolted about the way this country is being fustigated by a bouch of idiots with an anal addition to austerity measures, it's time to act in every way we can. Cultural events may not be as urgent as health services, but people need them the same way. This may look as a different story, but it is not. This time I accepted. Period!
The "thing" was very interesting for me and hopefully the audience felt the same. We always learn a lot from each other's experiences and I must say I learnt a lot. People end up asking you questions that forces you to think about yourself in a way you aren't used to do. That way you learn something more about yourself, which is always good, isn't it?
The audience was composed by students, teachers, plastic artists, photographers and people who are simply interested in these matters. I ended up mentioning DeviantArt and how important it was for the development of my work, specially when I was starting to experiment with the digital media.
After my presentation, I opened a time for questions and the debate flew in an intense way. This was great because I felt how interested people were both in my work and in these matters in general. We ended up discussing the role of photography in the 21st century and its connections to the plastic arts.
At some point, somebody asked me if I already have a clue to where my work is going from here. To that I answered that I'm sure it will be digital and I'm certain it will be more and more multidisciplinary.
So, that is what it will become. I think that the "static" and "mute" image is coming to an end for me. At least it's how I feel it for now. The digital media allows us to add sound, movement, besides some sort of interactivity, and who knows what else in the future, so why not try it? I think this has developed, as a natural process, allowed by technology, and I feel like exploring all possibilities to be able to express my ideas or concepts in a most complete way. Isn't that what we all look for?
A few photos of the event can be found in Cidadão Exemplar blog
I haven't uploaded to DA that much lately. Why? I've been experimenting a lot and this has been a constant in my life. It goes like this: experimentation> technical skill/media knowledge>"materialization" of an idea. So, lets say I'm in the experimentation phase.
If I make a brief retrospective of my work, it has become less painting and more photography (even though we perceive it as a group of impossible landscapes). Call it surreal or call it whatever you feel like, I don't mind that much, even because categorization usually comes from art critics and other pseudo-experts who populate the art market. I must confess I've always felt strange when I'm forced to choose a category on DA or anywhere else. I do understand the need for some organization though. But as I don't think like this"Ah! It's an endless night so I'm going to paint a surreal thingy". It comes out as it comes out from the inside. That's why I always hesitate when I have to choose a category. Makes me play the critic role.
Just to share with you more of the lecture's bla bla bla, I'm experimenting a lot with morphing software. I've came to some interesting conclusions: when morphing two or more photos, these kind of algorithmic wonders generate, during the metamorphosis process, intermediate images that retain the main characteristics of a photography. Even though they are not photographs, they look like them. Found a similarity to my latest work here (impossible photo-realistic images). I'm determined to explore these images more and more. In fact, I can not only comtemplate them, for being terribly strange and damn interesting, but I can also include them as an element in my compositions (since they can be saved in a graphic file format). From this point, no more limitations, heh! How cool!
Other than that, I've found so many copies of my "Memorial to Empty Arts" alll over the cyberspace that I'm making a project entitled "My subconscious and someonelse's apple". Named it after finding a painted version of "Memorial to Empty Hearts" in which the person added a big red apple to it, right underneath the heel. Someone placed a big red apple on me. How strange that feels?
I feel like explaining something here, I'm not that anal about people copying these things. It happened throughout History (even before people can bombard the world with images via internet in a matter of seconds). Although, it makes me think what moves these people to "occupy space and time, physical or virtual" with these, pre-fabricated, empty and decontextualized things. Some of them even sell them at incredible prices. Oh Shit! It's the lack of ethics climax! It's the self-realization's wastepipe! If we think about it, when you paint, you put yourself in it. I put a lot of me in my images, inevitably. Some things I'm aware of, some I found later and some I'll never find out. But what about those who paint, putting that integral parcel of your own self in their painting, add an apple to it and make it all go down the wastepipe? Makes me shiver and think about how all this is affecting creativity. Also, the "I've seen something like this before" means banalization and removes what I believe to be the strenght, impact, integrity and veracity of an image. It annoys me enough and, from here, right behind my screen, makes me want to shout out loud a few things to these people: HEY! FOR HOW MUCH ARE YOU SELLING A PART OF ME? LOOK INSIDE YOUR OWN SELF INSTEAD! THERE'S A LOT OF "MATERIAL" IN THERE, I'M SURE, IF YOU LOOK FOR IT!
Now, back to acceptable dB levels, I'm compiling a mosaic with such images (I've already 12 of them, from 2009 to 2012) which I've accidentaly found or were sent to me by some of you who found them (thank you). I selected the most flagrant ones and despised those who besides the "apple" have a mini-feminine figure, dancing in a colourful bikini, at the door. Why am I doing this? I don't know, but I've felt this urge to do it. Maybe I'll find out latter. Maybe is this some sort of mysterious interactivity at a different level? We'll see.
Other than that, I'll be participating in a show in Madrid, opening on July 20 and another in Paris. I'll provide more info soon.
Hope you guys are doing great.
Much love!
Paula
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INTERNATIONAL SURREALISM NOW
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Working like crazy here. Just finished a poster for the Conimbriga show and I'm preparing my next solo show which opens on Tuesday.
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UPCOMING GROUP SHOWTo celebrate the 50 years of the Conímbriga Monographic Museum, Santiago Ribeiro has gathered together surrealists from nine countries to exhibit works:
Daniel Hanequand, Francisco Urbano, Gromyko Semper, Héctor Pineda, Keith Wigdor, Liba WS, Majisme Majo, Paula Rosa, Santiago Ribeiro, Shahla Rosa, Sio Shisio, Steve Smith, Ton Haring, Victor Lages, Vu Huyen Thuong and Yuri Tsvetaev
The Monographic museum is Portugal's second most visited museum. The ruins date back to 100 BC. This antique setting juxtaposed against modern surrealist art is bound to be extraordinary.
Created in 1962 the Monographic Museum of Conímbriga is exclusively dedicated to the archaeological site where it is located. Its collections are diversified and they illustrate the historical evolution of the archaeological site, from the end of the second millennium B.C. and the VI century of the Christian era. The objects exposed were found during the excavations that, with great interruptions, took place since 1898 and are distributed by thirty one different themes that illustrate the vitality of this city.
OPENING TIMES
Museum and Ruins: Monday to Sunday, from 10h00 to 19h00
OPENING TIMES
Museum and Ruins: Monday to Sunday, from 10h00 to 19h00
SOLO SHOW IN ALMADA"DK, n'A Parede" is a solo exhibition featuring 6 works from my DK series. This show is promoted by CIDADÂO EXEMPLAR and it is the 5th exhibition organized by this group of artists.
The exhibition will be opened to the public from April 24th to May 24th, at the café-bar, Romeu Correia Forum, in Almada. Closes on Mondays.
All the best!
Paula
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News
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Hello dear friends!
I've been insanely absent, haven't I? I hope everybody is doing fine.
During all this time I've been painting, writing, participating in group exhibitions, taking care of my dog (who is ill) and doing all those crazy things every crazy human use to do in a crazy way. Time flies at the speed of light when we're crazy busy. I've just turned 40 (only because I decided to count backwards. Otherwise I would be 42 now). You know you're getting old when you meet some of your childhood friends, fat as obese whales, with 2 or 3 children around them (distant and oily as adolescents can be), exposing their depigmented heads and complaining about the weather. Oh shit! Makes me shiver... and change subject.
I had an exhibition in Paris, oooh la la! It went perfectly well and there is another one in the agenda, in France, later this year.
I'm also participating in FIARTE 2012, in Granada, which opened to the public last Friday. Other than that, me and Santiago Ribeiro we've had some shows together in Portugal. Has been fun!
"Héritages Surréalistes", in Paris, was organized by Dorothy's Gallery in partnership with the Bissaya Barreto Foundation, Santiago Ribeiro, Liba WS. e Maria Fernanda Pinto.
I had an exhibition in Paris, oooh la la! It went perfectly well and there is another one in the agenda, in France, later this year.
I'm also participating in FIARTE 2012, in Granada, which opened to the public last Friday. Other than that, me and Santiago Ribeiro we've had some shows together in Portugal. Has been fun!
"Héritages Surréalistes", in Paris, was organized by Dorothy's Gallery in partnership with the Bissaya Barreto Foundation, Santiago Ribeiro, Liba WS. e Maria Fernanda Pinto.
It showed the work of twenty artists from different countries:
PORTUGAL: Santiago Ribeiro, Cruzeiro Seixas, Paula Rosa, Vitor Lages.
FRANCE: Anne Ethuin, Daniel Hannequand, Bernard Ascal, Philippe Briard, Véronique Magnin.
PORTUGAL/FRANCE: Isabel Meyrelles. Benjamim Marques.
U.S.A.: Liba WS, Shahla Rosa.
RUSSIA: Andrei Nekarsov, Evgeny Denisov, Gregory Pototsky, Yuri Shpakovsky, Yuri Tsvetaev.
VIETNAM: Vu Huyen Thuong
LATVIA: Serge Sunne
Different countries, different generations, different media, all put together in the same exhibition. How amazing that is!
Cruzeiro Seixas (1920) is a renowed Portuguese surrealist, painter and writer, member of the Grupo Surrealista de Lisboa (Lisbon Surrealist Group), founded in 1948 by Mário Cesariny. Isabel Meyrelles (1929), sculptor and poet, was friends with André Breton and Mário de Cesariny.
It was a great pleasure for me to exhibit together with these personalities whose work I've admired since I was a child. I never thought this could be possible. Pinch me, please!
I'll share some photos of the vernissage as soon as I find some time to update my website.
So, soon I'll have more news. 2012 seems to be a promising year in what concerns to exhibitions. There's a huge project in the agenda for September, in Portugal. As soon as I've more details, I'll share them with all of you.
PORTUGAL: Santiago Ribeiro, Cruzeiro Seixas, Paula Rosa, Vitor Lages.
FRANCE: Anne Ethuin, Daniel Hannequand, Bernard Ascal, Philippe Briard, Véronique Magnin.
PORTUGAL/FRANCE: Isabel Meyrelles. Benjamim Marques.
U.S.A.: Liba WS, Shahla Rosa.
RUSSIA: Andrei Nekarsov, Evgeny Denisov, Gregory Pototsky, Yuri Shpakovsky, Yuri Tsvetaev.
VIETNAM: Vu Huyen Thuong
LATVIA: Serge Sunne
Different countries, different generations, different media, all put together in the same exhibition. How amazing that is!
Cruzeiro Seixas (1920) is a renowed Portuguese surrealist, painter and writer, member of the Grupo Surrealista de Lisboa (Lisbon Surrealist Group), founded in 1948 by Mário Cesariny. Isabel Meyrelles (1929), sculptor and poet, was friends with André Breton and Mário de Cesariny.
It was a great pleasure for me to exhibit together with these personalities whose work I've admired since I was a child. I never thought this could be possible. Pinch me, please!
I'll share some photos of the vernissage as soon as I find some time to update my website.
So, soon I'll have more news. 2012 seems to be a promising year in what concerns to exhibitions. There's a huge project in the agenda for September, in Portugal. As soon as I've more details, I'll share them with all of you.
All the best!
Paula
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NEW EXHIBITION
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Hello fellow deviants!
I hope everybody is doing great.
NEWS
Me and Santiago Ribeiro organized another show in Coimbra.
You are cordially invited to the reception for the "Portuguese Surrealism in the 21st Century" art exhibition at Moinho das Lapas Museum, in Cernache, Coimbra, featuring the work of Santiago Ribeiro and Paula Rosa. The reception will take place at the gallery of Moinho das Lapas Museum, Rua do Moinho das Lapas, Cernache, Coimbra, on Thursday, December 8th, at 6pm.
The exhibition will continue to January 8th, 2012, Monday to Friday, from 2pm to 7pm.
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I wrote a long text about this show for the press, which I dare to share with you. It's just a part of the text (because I would go even more "zanzan de la tête" trying to translate the whole thing. It was originally written in Portuguese and I'm sorry for this bad translation.
CONCEPT:
"Portuguese Surrealism in the 21st century" is a project that aims to celebrate the temporal transversality of surrealism, understood as awareness in the face of civilization and culture, rejecting conventionalities and diving in the realm of absolute freedom of expression. Far from feeding sterile polemics and meta-perceptual languages, this project exalts the revolutionary and avant-guard character of surrealist imagery, focused on the insight, discovery and the importance of metaphor, symbol and analogy.
As art movement, Surrealism has its chronological origin perfectly defined in History of Arts, placed in the context of the 20s of the last century, period of strong social and political uncertainty, an aspect which, incidentally, has been recurrent in the history of our civilization.
Prevailing cultural beliefs in Europe were being questioned, as well as the vulnerability of humanity, facing a reality more and more difficult to understand. Surrealism sought to overcome the conventional and traditional perception of reality, developing an aesthetic based on the findings of the value of the Freudian Unconscious as a complement to the conscious life and the dream's ability to communicate. It appears, therefore, as an awareness, opposing the conventions with freedom, replacing positivism with the dream, the unbelievable, the unusual, because it was felt that man overcomes the limitations of matter in the pursuit of the abstract.
But Surrealism is history and also present, unlike other art movements that have lost expression through the ages, it tends to "rebirth", naturally, gain a new life and exude timelessness. This temporal transversality also results from its expression, embodied in a wide range of languages, deals with Man in its various dimensions, possible and impossible, while psychologically complex being, also able to seek knowledge in sleep and dream experiences, crystallize it, transport it wisely to the waking state and, finally, report it to the world, artistically. To this exposure of the multi-dimensional man, we can add: the use of large times and spaces (universal, dichotomous or transmuted), the rescue of the most hidden desires of mankind (increasingly less automatic and more reflexive) and renewal of a creative fulcrum, free, able to follow contemporaneity. The Surrealist imagery, by extrapolating time, space and concreteness, became timeless and universal.
At the beginning of a new century, a time when the concept of art has become so open that disregards any definitions, when the question "What is Art?" has been replaced by the question "What Art?", when is evident the need for the rescue of an important part of the human being, proliferates, as a cry of distress, all the surrealist imagery in many contemporary artists work.
New technologies have broken frontiers, have democratized art, offered new tools, allowed new languages , revealed a horizon of possibilities. It is in exploring this new universe, while artists seem to frenetically search for a new aesthetic, resulting from the technological revolution, Surrealism seems to fill some of the "emptiness" and, by what its essence carries of fascinating, human and liberating, it will certainly find expression in the future, reinventing itself and exploding in a variety of new forms.
In "Portuguese Surrealism in the 21st Century", surrealism is presented as an art of our time, capable to extract beauty from the absurd and install the deviation from which reality can finally emerge.
Paula Rosa
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The exhibition will continue to January 8th, 2012, Monday to Friday, from 2pm to 7pm.
--
I wrote a long text about this show for the press, which I dare to share with you. It's just a part of the text (because I would go even more "zanzan de la tête" trying to translate the whole thing. It was originally written in Portuguese and I'm sorry for this bad translation.
CONCEPT:
"Portuguese Surrealism in the 21st century" is a project that aims to celebrate the temporal transversality of surrealism, understood as awareness in the face of civilization and culture, rejecting conventionalities and diving in the realm of absolute freedom of expression. Far from feeding sterile polemics and meta-perceptual languages, this project exalts the revolutionary and avant-guard character of surrealist imagery, focused on the insight, discovery and the importance of metaphor, symbol and analogy.
As art movement, Surrealism has its chronological origin perfectly defined in History of Arts, placed in the context of the 20s of the last century, period of strong social and political uncertainty, an aspect which, incidentally, has been recurrent in the history of our civilization.
Prevailing cultural beliefs in Europe were being questioned, as well as the vulnerability of humanity, facing a reality more and more difficult to understand. Surrealism sought to overcome the conventional and traditional perception of reality, developing an aesthetic based on the findings of the value of the Freudian Unconscious as a complement to the conscious life and the dream's ability to communicate. It appears, therefore, as an awareness, opposing the conventions with freedom, replacing positivism with the dream, the unbelievable, the unusual, because it was felt that man overcomes the limitations of matter in the pursuit of the abstract.
But Surrealism is history and also present, unlike other art movements that have lost expression through the ages, it tends to "rebirth", naturally, gain a new life and exude timelessness. This temporal transversality also results from its expression, embodied in a wide range of languages, deals with Man in its various dimensions, possible and impossible, while psychologically complex being, also able to seek knowledge in sleep and dream experiences, crystallize it, transport it wisely to the waking state and, finally, report it to the world, artistically. To this exposure of the multi-dimensional man, we can add: the use of large times and spaces (universal, dichotomous or transmuted), the rescue of the most hidden desires of mankind (increasingly less automatic and more reflexive) and renewal of a creative fulcrum, free, able to follow contemporaneity. The Surrealist imagery, by extrapolating time, space and concreteness, became timeless and universal.
At the beginning of a new century, a time when the concept of art has become so open that disregards any definitions, when the question "What is Art?" has been replaced by the question "What Art?", when is evident the need for the rescue of an important part of the human being, proliferates, as a cry of distress, all the surrealist imagery in many contemporary artists work.
New technologies have broken frontiers, have democratized art, offered new tools, allowed new languages , revealed a horizon of possibilities. It is in exploring this new universe, while artists seem to frenetically search for a new aesthetic, resulting from the technological revolution, Surrealism seems to fill some of the "emptiness" and, by what its essence carries of fascinating, human and liberating, it will certainly find expression in the future, reinventing itself and exploding in a variety of new forms.
In "Portuguese Surrealism in the 21st Century", surrealism is presented as an art of our time, capable to extract beauty from the absurd and install the deviation from which reality can finally emerge.
Paula Rosa
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DILEMA | EE GROUP SHOW 2020 by Paula-Rosa, journal
DILEMA | EE GROUP SHOW 2020
DIA D | EE Group Show 2019
At Espaço Exibicionista Gallery in Lisbon.
From July 4th to August 31st, 2020
ARTISTS: Alexandre Alonso, Ana Monteiro, Cias - Tattoos and Artwork, Coderch & Malavia, Sculptors, Duarte Vitoria, Duma Arantes, Emanuel de Sousa, Felipe Raizer, Gabriel Garcia, Hugo Silva, Jacqueline De Montaigne, João Fortuna, Jorge Humberto Joh, Lara Roseiro, Luis Melo, MFleming, Martinho Dias, Nuno Raminhos, Paula Rosa, Ana Paulina Goca, Petri Salo, Ricardo Passos, Rogério Timóteo, Silvia Marieta e Valentim Quaresma
Extremely Devious Journal Entry by Paula-Rosa, journal
Extremely Devious Journal Entry
Hi all you magnificent people!
How's life going?
NEWS:
Recently I was invited to give a lecture at Almada Museum, in Almada, Portugal, by Cidadão Exemplar (which is a cool and dynamic group of artists who have carried out a lot of initiatives in the art field. This came in the sequence of my last exhibition, promoted by the same group, which gladly had a great feedback by visitors.
I must confess I've always avoided these kind of events. I'm more used to the idea of my work speaking for myself than myself speaking about my work. Although, I think I've already mentioned in a previous journal that I'm terribly revolted about the way t
INTERNATIONAL SURREALISM NOW by Paula-Rosa, journal
INTERNATIONAL SURREALISM NOW
NEWS:
Working like crazy here. Just finished a poster for the Conimbriga show and I'm preparing my next solo show which opens on Tuesday.
Sharing:
:bulletwhite: UPCOMING GROUP SHOW
To celebrate the 50 years of the Conímbriga Monographic Museum, Santiago Ribeiro has gathered together surrealists from nine countries to exhibit works:
Daniel Hanequand, Francisco Urbano, Gromyko Semper, Héctor Pineda, Keith Wigdor, Liba WS, Majisme Majo, Paula Rosa, Santiago Ribeiro, Shahla Rosa, Sio Shisio, Steve Smith, Ton Haring, Victor Lages, Vu Huyen Thuong and Yuri Tsvetaev
The Monographic museum is Portugal's second most visited museum. T
News by Paula-Rosa, journal
News
Hello dear friends!
I've been insanely absent, haven't I? I hope everybody is doing fine.
During all this time I've been painting, writing, participating in group exhibitions, taking care of my dog (who is ill) and doing all those crazy things every crazy human use to do in a crazy way. Time flies at the speed of light when we're crazy busy. I've just turned 40 (only because I decided to count backwards. Otherwise I would be 42 now). You know you're getting old when you meet some of your childhood friends, fat as obese whales, with 2 or 3 children around them (distant and oily as adolescents can be), exposing their depigmented heads and com
NEW EXHIBITION by Paula-Rosa, journal
NEW EXHIBITION
Hello fellow deviants!
I hope everybody is doing great.
NEWS
Me and Santiago Ribeiro organized another show in Coimbra.
You are cordially invited to the reception for the "Portuguese Surrealism in the 21st Century" art exhibition at Moinho das Lapas Museum, in Cernache, Coimbra, featuring the work of Santiago Ribeiro and Paula Rosa. The reception will take place at the gallery of Moinho das Lapas Museum, Rua do Moinho das Lapas, Cernache, Coimbra, on Thursday, December 8th, at 6pm.
The exhibition will continue to January 8th, 2012, Monday to Friday, from 2pm to 7pm.
--
I wrote a long text about this show for the press, which I dare to