FERNANDO GASPAR
Born (1966) and based in Portugal, EU.
With a career that began in 1986, he collaborates and is represented in institutions and art galleries in Portugal, the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy and Germany.
To date, he has held more than seventy solo exhibitions and his work has won some national awards and distinctions.
It is represented in Public, Institutional and Private Collections in Portugal, Spain, France, Holland, China, Belgium, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Denmark, Italy, Canada, Colombia, Sweden, Germany, Brazil and the United States.
Over the years, the plasticity of his work has evolved into an increasingly reflective and contemporary approach, marked by a very strong and admittedly independent language.
Statement
Of my work it matters the color, the trace, or no more than what is heard of them. It matters what they both say, when together or apart, present or announced, or no more than what looses them. It is important to speak of this life that stretches between two worlds, both new; of the former where we can no longer fit, the new where we stubbornly adapt. It is important to speak of this time, of this catalytic place where everything begins, again. It is important to be, to connect with the hands and the head, the certainty cured to the freshness of the becoming. And from this struggle is done the work. Figuration prevails, or abstraction reigns in defiance of the covenant. It makes clear the origin and in the next moment already wanders almost erratically dismantling the maternal mark in search of wider ways.
For we too are all this, both memory and invention, silence and noise, peace and discord. As a people and as an artist, I feel like this: in between, between.
And my painting or what remains of it, thing or nothing, is no more than the visible essay of this being, of this being so. School orphan, wild and stubborn, is born and thriving on the sweet surfaces of the paper, in the tensions of a woven linen, worked stand, palimpsest care as if smoothing the place for a ceremony. One by one, single as the first, as accomplices as a child, are always the sum of what precedes them, ways to open to the next, pieces that do not altogether separate by any universal law. It is an exercise of mine, an intimate thing that makes me understand, in order to understand myself in this kind of delusion, so deliciously.
Exhibitions / Works (selection)
2024
Art New York Magazine / Beka Museum – Rockefeller Center – New York | United States
Becoming video / Conductr – NCL Holdings | United Kingdom
Dia Flor – EDA 50 – Conselho Nacional de Educação – Lisboa | Portugal
Flor, Flor – Galeria São Mamede – Lisboa, Porto | Portugal
Intervenção em Azul – Costaverde -Vagos | Portugal
Project Aqua – NCL Holdings – Miami | United States
Pictópsia doc movie / Henrique Vilão / Blablabla Media – Lisboa | Portugal
Turing, wine label – Grandebirra – Gaia | Portugal
2023
Recent Works – Benjamin Eck Projects – Munique | Germany
Kunst Block Balve – Benjamin Eck Galerie – Munique | Germany
Elemento – Public Steel Sculpture – Vagos | Portugal
Maximilian Magnus Studio – Munich | Germany
Project Grandeur – NoCL Holdings – Miami | United States
Miguel Silva Baga, wine label – Grandebirra – Gaia | Portugal
Upside Down, wine label – Grandebirra – Gaia | Portugal
2022
Each Place II – Galeria São Mamede – Lisbon | Portugal
Art Bunker – Benjamin Eck Galerie – Munich | Germany
Behind the Canvas – ARX Gallery – London | United Kingdom
Art Madrid- Galeria São Mamede – Madrid | Spain
Project Oceania – NCL Holdings – Miami | United States
Project Viva – NCL Holdings – Miami | United States
Transmission, wine label – Grandebirra – Gaia | Portugal
Transmission video, Grandebirra – Gaia | Portugal
2021
Each Place I – Convento do Espírito Santo – Loulé | Portugal
Portuguese Abstract – Redsheep Gallery – Stockholm | Sweden
Hamptons Fine Art Fair – Johnson Lowe Gallery – New York | United States
Project Getaway – NCL Holdings – Miami | United States
Project Prima – NCL Holdings – Miami | United States
2020
1940 L’ Éxil Pour La Vie – Comité Sousa Mendes – Bordeaux | France
Impermanência – Giro MicroArte – Vagos | Portugal
2019
Floating Machines – Bill Lowe Gallery – Atlanta, GA | United States
Affordable Art Fair – Redsheep Gallery – Stockholm | Sweden
2018
Home – Separated Land Series – Passevite – Lisbon | Portugal
2017
Separated Land IV – Galeria São Mamede – Lisbon | Portugal
2ª Bienal de Arte de Gaia (Invited Artist) – Gaia | Portugal
2016
Separated Land / Agartha – Bill Lowe Gallery – Atlanta, GA | United States
O lugar da Arte – TEDx Talks – Aveiro | Portugal
2015
Separated Land II – Galeria de Arte Casino Estoril – Estoril | Portugal
Walnut Contemporary – Toronto | Canada
1ª Bienal de Arte de Gaia – Gaia | Portugal
2014
Separated Land – Bill Lowe Gallery – Atlanta, GA | United States
Public Steel Sculpture – Rotary – Oliveira de Azeméis | Portugal
2013
Argonautas – Casa Museu Teixeira Lopes – Gaia | Portugal
Moving Places – Bill Lowe Gallery – Atlanta, GA | United States
Zwarte Koninginnen – Rainhas Negras – Amstelkerk – Amsterdam | Netherlands
2012
Remind 25 – Cosmopolis / Centre Culturel Européen – Nantes | França
Sexto Sentido – Galeria 57 – Macao | China
Kunstart 12 – Bolzano | Italy
Princesas de Arcádia – Galeria LM – Sintra | Portugal
Playlist Fernando Gaspar / TSF – Lisbon | Portugal
2011
Remind 25 – Museu da Cidade de Aveiro – Aveiro | Portugal
Ad Infinitum / Silêncio – Consulado-Geral de Portugal – Paris | France
2009
Invisible Shapes – Alphart Gallery – Lisbon | Portugal
2008
El afecto el Tiempo y el Rio – Fundación Duero – Cáceres, Salamanca, Valladolid | Spain
Artein, Art Madrid – Madrid | Spain
2006
Ibéria – Galeria de Arte Casino Estoril – Estoril | Portugal
2000
Parcours Imaginaire – Convent des Récollets – Cognac | France
Parcours Imaginaire – Staff Centre, NATO | Brussels | Belgium
Sítios da Memória – Galeria dos Coimbras – Braga | Portugal
MarcaMadeira – Feira de Arte Contemporânea – Madeira | Portugal
500 anos da Descoberta do Brasil – Curitiba | Brasil
ArteSevilla – Feria de Arte Contemporaneo – Sevilla | Spain
1999
Bestiário / Touros – Enquadrar – Aveiro | Portugal
Estudos para um Improviso – Galeria de Arte Casino Estoril – Estoril | Portugal
FAC – Feira de Arte Contemporânea – Lisbon | Portugal
1998
2º Prémio Nacional de Pintura António Joaquim – Gaia | Portugal
1997
Centro UNESCO – Porto | Portugal
1º Prémio Nacional de Pintura António Joaquim – Gaia | Portugal
Colectiva d’Estiu – Galeria Marbelló – Barcelona | Spain
1996
Printemps Culturel – Avignon | France
1995
Sud – Royal Anderlecht Golf Club – Brussels | Belgium
Colecções Particulares II – Staff Centre, NATO | Brussels | Belgium
Colecções Particulares I – Maison des Artistes – Anderlecht | Belgium
1994
Muestra de Arte Portugues Contemporaneo – Barcelona | Spain
1992
Salão de Aguarela – Galeria de Arte Casino Estoril – Estoril | Portugal
1991
Museu Regional de Sintra – Sintra | Portugal
Lisboa – Séc. XX nas Artes Plásticas – Palácio das Galveias – Lisbon | Portugal
1986
Galeria de Arte A Grade – Aveiro | Portugal
Awards (selections)
2009 Culture Award | Vaga de Ouro 2009 | Vagos.
2001 National Award | Galeria da Restauração / Porto 2001 | Porto.
2000 Honorable Mention | IV Prémio Nacional de Pintura António Joaquim | Gaia.
1998 National Award | II Prémio Nacional de Pintura António Joaquim | Gaia.
1997 Honorable Mention | I Prémio Nacional de Pintura António Joaquim | Gaia.
1997 Honorable Mention | 10º Salão de Primavera | Galeria de Arte Casino Estoril | Estoril.
1987 Honorable Mention | 4º Salão de Primavera | Galeria de Arte Casino Estoril | Estoril.
1987 Honorable Mention | Bienal de Cerâmica de Aveiro | Aveiro.