Alexandra do CarmoLisboa, Portugal, 1966
ALEXANDRA DO CARMO'S PERCEPTIVE FISSURES
David Barro
There is a group of artists who carry out a subtle
narrative, with minimal devices, with moments
that are born out of patient waiting and with a
tense, reflective gaze. The case of Alexandra do
Carmo is one of them. Her drawings emerge like
a journal capable of reflecting and reflecting on
what being an artist today means, what their
place is and what their difficulties are. As if it
were a game, and without losing her sense of
humour, Alexandra do Carmo works on
communication, sounding out its possibilities until
concluding its impossibility. Like in palaeontology,
each step forward comes from other tiny
discoveries which apparently do not mean
anything and lead nowhere, but which end up
making sense.
Bibliografia
Pedro RAPOULA, (ed.) Um século, Dez lápis, Cem desenhos. Lisboa : Museu da Presidência da República, 2009
Miguel von Hafe PÉREZ (ed.) Anamnese. Porto: Fundação Ilídio Pinho, 2006
Bruno MARQUES; David BARRO Alexandra do Carmo OFFICE/COMMERCIAL, Santiago de Compostela: Dardo TU e Galeria Carlos Carvalho, 2008
WILD M5 at the Natural History Museum in Lisbon (Sala do Veado)
João PINHARANDA [et al.] “Artistas Portugueses Lá Fora (Portuguese Artists Abroad)”. Lisboa: Museu da Electricidade, 2009
Articles and Reviews
The Dubliner Magazine
The Wall Street Journal
Inter-Face Arte Contemporânea
http://www.artecapital.net/noticias.php?noticia=67
Simon JUDGE Collecting the new in The Dubliner magazine
Robert KNAFO Dinosaur Drawings in http://www.anamnese.pt
Robert KNAFO, On the Paleontology-Democracy Continuum, 2004,
Jonathan Goodman O olhar do Macaco in http://www.anamnese.pt
SV Magazine www.studiovisit.net
David BARRO Animal Gaze. NY Arts Magazine Mar/Abr 2009
Luisa Soares de OLIVEIRA Looking for Fragments, in Público, 18/09/2004
Interview with Nuno Cunha, in e-vai online arts magazine http://www.e-vai.net/content/view/1343/44/
Selected Website Listings
http://www.studiovisit.net, 2005--Dinosaur Drawings i.e. in www.anamnese.pt.
The Square Root of Drawing at Temple Bar Gallery http://www.templebargallery.com/2006programme/squareroot/index.html
BreadMatters III, West Cork Arts Center
I certamen de dibujo contemporáneo Pilar y Andrés Centenera Jaraba. Guadalajara, Spain 2008
http://www.viarco.pt/viarcoexpress/lapis8_alexandradocarmojohnhawke.php
“Sala do Veado Vinte Anos” (textos de Luís SERPA, João PINHARANDA et al.) Lisboa: Museu de História Natural, Museus da Politécnica, 2010
Location One (interview by Robert Knafo)
Bread Matters ("Roggenbrot" collaboration with Alison Knowles)
Bruno Marques, 2006, The Steam Shop (or the painter's studio)' From the expansion of the Studio to an anthropological view of the site’ in:http://www.interfaceartecontemporanea.org/ensaios_criticos.htm