Manuel Vilarinho (painter)

For the sports club president, see Manuel Vilarinho.
Manuel Vilarinho, Painter

Manuel Vilarinho (born 1953, Lisbon) is a Portuguese painter who lives and works in Lisbon. Vilarinho has a degree in painting from the Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa. He works in the fields of painting and drawing. "...the guiding principle that organizes Manuel Vilarinho's landscapes is the walk, the slow enjoyment of the visible though completed by the fleetingness of someone who drives on the road, taking in, in and extremely quick way, such visual information as stands out from the bulk of natural landscape."[1] He began taking part in exhibitions in the 1980s, and, in 1985, had his first solo exhibition. He has exhibited his work individually in various galleries and museums. Since 1981, he has taken part in numerous national and international group exhibitions.

MANUEL VILARINHO - Pintura e desenho 2001/2006 [2] “(...) A journey should, for example, drive you through every stopover imaginable; there is always something you haven’t seen yet, some unknown place, one thing or another, or maybe some new event: nearby landscapes; ruins; outskirts... Manuel Vilarinho captures the environment cognitively and organizes it in his canvas using either geometrical or figurative shapes: landscapes - hills, with green colors, earthy browns, the red earth - where the local pathways where travelers wander open themselves; views that agglutinate, that juxtapose themselves, in their multiple plans as the sum of environments, of natural objects and, of the urban world as well, the ruins, the signs, the letters signaling paths, the chimneys, the walls with bare bricks, the constructed fences, a maze that forms the pathway, several undefined shapes, the rough brushstroke, an expressive stroke, and colors and shapes meet in this cluster of feelings, views of the landscape, cuttings recorded on painted canvas.”[3]

References

  1. ↑ Ferreira, Emília (2006), Diário de um Olhar
  2. ↑ Exposição Cooperativa Árvore
  3. ↑ Rui Almeida Pereira (Direcção Artística do Museu Jorge Vieira), in catálogo da exposição individual na Galeria dos Escudeiros, Beja, 2005.

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