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Oil on board, 10 x 15 cm, 2019
These paintings are the outcome of my long-standing fascination with the landscape genre, which I aim to revise in view of current concerns such as climate change and additional natural and human-induced catastrophes.
In oil painting, I am intrigued by the potential for infinite combinations of abstraction and figuration, yielding images that, rather than making assertions, propose or interrogate our relationship with the world.
I am also interested in the observer of these images finding in them an atmosphere of "uneasy tranquility," a reflection of the provisional nature of all things: a house in ruins, a forgotten forest, or a sand dune, battered by the wind, the falling rain, or the sun's heat, as traces of the passage of time.
BIO
Ana Gonçalves was born in Oeiras, Portugal, in 1976.
In 2001, she completed her degree in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, followed by a postgraduate degree in Curatorial Studies. At the same institution, she was also invited to teach Visual Form Theory for several years, a position she left definitely in early 2019.
Alongside this, she has collaborated with several renowned institutions and museums, such as the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Culturgest, where she has been leading guided tours since 2006.
Her interdisciplinary artistic practice focuses on traditional European painting motifs, like figures, portraits, and landscapes, which she seeks to update in light of contemporary issues, like climate change and other natural and human-made disasters.
Oil on board, 10 x 15 cm, 2019
These paintings are the outcome of my long-standing fascination with the landscape genre, which I aim to revise in view of current concerns such as climate change and additional natural and human-induced catastrophes.
In oil painting, I am intrigued by the potential for infinite combinations of abstraction and figuration, yielding images that, rather than making assertions, propose or interrogate our relationship with the world.
I am also interested in the observer of these images finding in them an atmosphere of "uneasy tranquility," a reflection of the provisional nature of all things: a house in ruins, a forgotten forest, or a sand dune, battered by the wind, the falling rain, or the sun's heat, as traces of the passage of time.
BIO
Ana Gonçalves was born in Oeiras, Portugal, in 1976.
In 2001, she completed her degree in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, followed by a postgraduate degree in Curatorial Studies. At the same institution, she was also invited to teach Visual Form Theory for several years, a position she left definitely in early 2019.
Alongside this, she has collaborated with several renowned institutions and museums, such as the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Culturgest, where she has been leading guided tours since 2006.
Her interdisciplinary artistic practice focuses on traditional European painting motifs, like figures, portraits, and landscapes, which she seeks to update in light of contemporary issues, like climate change and other natural and human-made disasters.