Espaço APAV & Cultura Poster for Gabriel Godoi & Gonçalo Falcão Concert

This is the poster and painting I did for Espaço APAV & Cultura that is hosting this Gabriel Godoi and Gonçalo Falcão concert on the 18th of March at 19.30h.

The Brazilian guitarist Gabriel Godoi has prooved its crafts in Chorinho and Gonçalo Falcão is a Portuguese guitarist whose designer skills weren't enough to test his need to improvise. Is it that the trigger here is Experimenting Chorinho? You have to attend to find out!

I think I already mentioned Espaço APAV & Cultura is one of my favorite places in Lisbon for concerts. The space is very intimate, the walls are fool of books, and the acoustic is great. 
Also to mention the location is central and breezy with Jardim Constantino (Constantino José Marques de Sampaio e Melo was the king of the florists, back in the XIX century, also inspiring to know!) just in front. 

I made this painting thinking already to use it for this purpose. Before I started painting, I mentally saw the colors to use, how to mix them and their layer order since I wanted it to go from the lightest color to black. It was before I finished the painting that I pictured I wanted a full color poster with the letters as the only thing in white. Also I wanted to make something lively, that could represent the happy encounters provided by these initiatives in APAV. 

I'm sharing all these things because - and as someone said the other day in on LXII Conversa in our studio (Década) - I agree both the process and the result are important.

This concert was programmed by Nuno Catarino who told me he chose the musicians according to my painting!

If you want to know more about this event, please follow this link.

APAV is in Rua José Estevão, 135A (Lisbon) and the entrance for this concert is free.

Yes, I can

This collage's inspiration was woman's emancipation. I thought of woman as a creative driving force, woman as a volcano about to burst (and give birth), the red lipstick as a powerful statement; being red, the color with the power to paralyze, to call one's attention.  

Conversas LIII

com/with:

Elisa Ochôa (Animais como nós | Animals like us)
José Sousa Machado (Ditirambo angolano | Angolan dithyramb)
Vera Mineiro (O dia-a-dia em Guizhou | The day-to-day in Guizhou)


ELISA OCHÔA

A museologist, curator and fine artist, Elisa has a vast experience in Art Education, having participated in several international projects. She holds a Master's Degree in Museology, and a Degree and Post-Graduate Degree in Philosophy of Art.

www.elisaochoa.me


JOSÉ SOUSA MACHADO

José was born in Luanda in 1956. He moved to Lisbon 3/4 years later. After almost fifty years, he returned to Luanda. He lived in Brazil, where he worked for publishers and newspapers. He wrote the cultural section for “Diário de Notícias”, among others. Founded and directed the magazines “Artes & Leilões”, “Arte Ibérica” and “Agenda Cultural de Lisboa”.


VERA MINEIRO

Vera Mineiro is 21, of portuguese nationality, and was born in Lisbon. She studied for ten years in an English school and another three years, afterward, in a professional school of Marketing. She spent two months in one of China's poorest provinces, teaching English and is currently in her third year at the university, studying Psychology. Her dream is to become a specialist in Psychocriminology and go study and live abroad.

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These talks are informal meetings so we can get to know and discuss projects. They take place every Wednesday in Lisbon. This time, Conversas asked for help and each one of these Wednesdays will be organized by a couple of friends. Those responsible for this week are Érica Zíngano and Rita Frazão.

The entrance is free and the Conversas will be held in English whenever necessary.
We have ‘médias’ for one euro.
P.S. – the conversations won’t be too long or boring.

Conversas is a project by Constança Saraiva and Mafalda Fernandes.
And, also, of many other people.

at Rua da Rosa 237, Lisboa
30th of October, Wednesday at 7.30pm

+info:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Conversas/120202131442846

Subscribe newsletter:
http://conversas.net/

Conversas at Sonda Espacial L.Q.F.U.B.

Here are some pictures (by Miguel Lopes and Ricardo Pereira) from Conversas at Sonda Espacial L.Q.F.U.B  at Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa

We were talking about independent publications, and participating in the making of a Fanzine too for the Trienal de Arquitectura

Check out more Pics here

Conversas @ Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa

As CONVERSAS foram convidadas a participar na | CONVERSAS were invited to participate at

ACADEMIA DOS ILUSTRADOS FANZINE MACHINE

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LENTE | LENS
Espontâneos | The Spontaneous

COLECTIVO | COLECTIVE
Conversas | http://conversas.net/

BIONOPSE 
 O colectivo CONVERSAS, enquanto uma série de encontros informais para conhecermos e falarmos sobre os projetos e interesses uns dos outros, vai habitar a Sonda Espacial L.Q.F.U.B. com a missão de CONVERSAR.
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The collective CONVERSAS, while a series of informal meetings made so that we can get to know and discuss projects and interests of each other, will inhabit the L.Q.F.U.B. Spacecraft with the mission of CHAT.

PARTICIPANTES | PARTICIPANTS
Mafalda Fernandes, Ricardo Pereira, Carlos Rebocho, Francisco Rosa, Érica Zíngano, Rita Frazão, Joana Reais Pinto, Romes Pinheiro, Ana Magalhães, Carolina Silva, João Valente, Sara Orsi, Anett Krase, Joana Durães, Mariana Veloso, Miguel Lopes, Miguel Rodrigues, outros amigos inesperados e todos aqueles que quiserem aparecer.

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Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa 2013
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A Realidade e Outras Ficções
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Mariana Pestana (Curadora | Curator)
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Sonda Espacial L.Q.F.U.B.
Friendly Fire (PT)
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+info: http://www.close-closer.com/pt/programa/a-realidade-e-outras-ficcoes/sonda-espacial-l-q-f-u-b

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ReMoTeImPLoV - Paragon for Chance CD Cover

PARAGON FOR CHANCE

The idea took shape over nearly ten years of experience in free improvisation and musical wanderings by South America and Europe.

Prototype for routes to be followed in a borderless world, brings into focus the multiple connections and possibilities for dialogue between artistic languages ​​supposedly distant.

Each guest composer was given the task of sending me a totally improvised solo piece, only restriction being the maximum time established. No reference was given, unless the information that subsequently the pieces would overlap randomly by me.

The result of this adventure confirms expectations that both trouble me for years:

To paraphrase the late magus Décio Pignatari,

“Only the new structure is new meaning. And new action.”

Rodrigo Gobbet

23.06.2013/06.23.2013

ReMoTeImPLoV is:

Rodrigo Gobbet (Brazil) - conception, electric bass, mixing and mastering

Vasco Trilla (Spain) - percussion

Alvaro Rosso (Uruguai) - double bass

Gustavo Bode (Brazil) - trumpet

George Hadow (UK) - percussion

Matias Fisher (Argentina) - french horn

Romulo Alexis (Brazil) - trumpet/ reeds

Gloria Damijan (Austria) - toy piano / objects

Maresuke Okamoto (Japan) - double bass

Maria Radich (Portugal) - vocals

Cover by Rita Frazão

Edited by Mansarda Records

Listen here: 

https://archive.org/details/MSRCD040

Thank you Rodrigo Gobbet for trusting my work. I started having ideas for the record cover as soon as I heard the music. It was something visceral. Long live Mansarda Records :)

New Studio Logo :: A Década

This is the logo I have created for A Década.
A Década is the studio from Constança Saraiva, Isabel Lucena, Teresa Gameiro and me.

Pythagoras believed that the first 10 numbers contained the key of all things, and that each of the numbers of the decade was a primary creative principle in the Cosmos. May it inspire us :)

Trópicos Collective Drawing Exhibition

 

Designed by Joana Bernardo, Mariana Veloso, Rita Frazão and Rui Silveira

 Solstício ® Rita Draper Frazão

O mundo plano ® Constança Saraiva

Da Colectiva Identity

Da Colectiva