Gustavo Fernandes- Contemporary Art – Painting & Sculpture

Bibliography

Film, Books and Television:

Live execution of an oil painting, broadcast on RTP 1, later auctioned for charitable purposes – 1994.

Ministry of the Navy, Foundation of the Association of Naval Reserve Officers, with the launch of a Serigraphic and Medallistic Edition – 1995.

Design of a label for the wine “Palmela” – Association of Naval Reserve Officers.

University of Coimbra: lecture and live painting session, “Painting Techniques”.

Lecture at the Municipal Auditorium of Torres Vedras, at the School of Services and Commerce of the West: “Cultural Tourism and the Arts” – 1996.

Referenced in several national books on visual arts: As Esperanças Plásticas Portuguesas by Manuela Synek (1992); Aspectos das Artes Plásticas em Portugal by Infante do Carmo (1992); Artes Plásticas Portugal: O Artista e o seu Mercado by Narciso Martins (1993); Arte 98 by Infante do Carmo.

Creation of the logo and visual presentation for the National Conference Cycle commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 20th Anniversary of the Public Prosecutor’s Statute.

Collective panel “A Portrait for Fernando Pessoa – Quatrains and Paintings”, a tribute to the poet on the 111th anniversary of his birth – 1999.

“Art Shop Windows” for SONAE shopping centres, by invitation of the European Capital of Culture operation.

Main guest artist at “Under Different Skies”, World ART + DESIGN Fair, Messe Berlin, through Arte Viva – 2004. The fair itself was named after one of Gustavo Fernandes’ paintings.

Arte Lisboa – representation of Galveias Gallery at FIL, Contemporary Art Fair – 2007.

Two films produced in the artist’s studio by Álvaro Queiroz, included in the archive of the Portuguese Cinematheque – ANIM (National Archive of Moving Images).

Execution of the portraits of nurses Mariana Diniz de Sousa and Maria Augusta de Sousa, Presidents of the Portuguese Order of Nurses – 2007.

Live execution, at Campo Real, of a painting later auctioned in support of AMI.

Live execution on RTP of a 700 × 200 cm painting on the program “Bom Dia Portugal”, hosted by Jorge Gabriel and Sónia Araújo – September 2008.

Presentation at the CCB in Lisbon and in Madrid of the PhD thesis by Dr. Ana Harfouche: Comparative Study Between Hospitals Transformed or Not Transformed into Companies, with projection of works by Gustavo Fernandes.

Featured in issue no. 101 of OEIRAS EM REVISTA, published by Oeiras City Council, by invitation of Dr. Elizabete Brigadeiro, including images of his works and an overview of his professional career.

Gustavo Fernandes and his work were the subject of a postgraduate thesis at the Catholic University by Isabel Alexandra Martins Mendes, within the Contemporary Painting module of the Postgraduate Program in Art Expertise.

2013 – Guest of Helena Ramos on “Há Conversa”, a program broadcast on RTP Memória, featuring a one-hour conversation covering his artistic career.

2013 – The artwork “Biological Hourglass” was featured on the cover of a poetry book by Brazilian writer Tony Pelosi.

The artwork “Frescura” by Gustavo Fernandes is included in a literary work by Tony Pelosi.

Illustration of the book “O Faroleiro do Tempo” by Maria Manuel Guerreiro.

2014International Contemporary Artists, Volume VIII

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