Estimate

3.000 - 3.500

Session

4 February 2016

Hammer Price

Description

Bronze

75x17,5x8,5 cm

Category

Modern and Contemporary Art

Additional Information

Manuel Rosa started his artistic training in the beginning of the 1980s
as a student and collaborator of sculptor João Cutileiro. His work was
shown for the first time at the I International Symposium on Stone
Sculpture (Évora, 1981). Later he studied sculpture at ESBAL – Escola
Superior de Belas-Artes de Lisboa, where he met a group of artists from
the so-called generation of sculptors of the 1980s, such as Rui Sanches
and José Pedro Croft. He also was part of a very active group of artists
that included, in addition to Sanches and Croft, Pedro Calapez, Ana Léon
and Rosa Carvalho.
Conciliating abstraction with recognizable objects and (mainly elliptic
and conical) forms, Manuel Rosa’s sculpture is typically made of
limestone. However, Rosa sometimes resorts to other materials, bronze
being a medium he uses to conjure the history of sculpture.
Manuel Rosa’s work has recently been showed in ‘Narrativa de uma
Colecção – Arte portuguesa na Coleção da Secretaria de Estado da
Cultura (1960–1990)’, Museu do Chiado, Lisboa (2015); ‘Livre Circulação:
Colecção da Fundação de Serralves’, Centro de Memória – Vila do
Conde, Portugal (2011–12); ‘Singularidades: A escultura na Colecção da
Fundação de Serralves’, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves,
Porto (2004). He was awarded the ‘Prémio de Aquisição’ at the V Bienal
de Vila Nova de Cerveira (1986).