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Encontrarte Art Biennal — Amares
‘João Abel Mota from Amares will turn painting into an act of communion. A conversation starter, a tangent to the sensitive, a collective experience. Wandering around Amares, the lines, marksand colours that shape a person will be transported to the hand, to the brush, to a support.’

‍Fernando Almeida, Junho 2021

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Photographs by Filipe Braga

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Encontrarte Art Biennal — Amares

2021

In the summer of this year, he once again took part in another edition of the Encontrarte Art Biennal, in Amares, alongside Ruca Burbon, João Pais Filipe, Sarah Klimsh, Paulo Neves, José Rosinhas, Carlos Silva + Diogo Santos + Francisco Barbosa. This edition took the form of artist residencies that would culminate in a final exhibition and an informal publication, "Silo", a depository of images collected during the residencies. This edition, like all the others, is the result of the efforts of many people: Fernando Almeida, Martinho Antunes (ARC), Lázaro Silva, Carina Moutinho, Filipe Braga, Sílvia Cunha, João Ferreira, Francisco Babo, João Brites, Thomas Spallek, among many others.

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“Desculpa, Mãe” (Sorry, Mum), was the inaugural exhibition of his studio, where he exhibits together with his peers, Afonso Rocha and Diogo Nogueira. This exhibition was sponsored by Esporão, CIN, Lume, Palavras&Rimas, Só Papeis, among others, and with the help of his friends Pedro Tavares, Diogo Luis, Leonor Talefe, Pedro Ouro, Francisco Rocha, Cristina Madureira. Required "current" page
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The paintings and drawings he produces in the studio were based on his own analogical photographs of compositions and moments that he shared with his peers. He began to fictionalise narratives, actions and relationships between characters and between animals that would then be repeated and extended over the next few years. He used his studio colleagues and friends who constantly visited him both as models for these compositions and to pose for the first series of portraits.Required "current" page
Since 1985, Herdade do Esporão has invited Portuguese artists such as Julio Pomar, Alberto Carneiro, Graça Morais, Julião Sarmento and Pedro Cabrita Reis to create the labels for Esporão Reserva and Private Selection. During that summer he was invited by Studio Eduardo Aires to design the Esporão labels for 2021. In October of that year, he produced around 30 works at the Esporão estate. Required "current" page
Three years later, as a member of the intercultural movement, the IDENTIDADES project - an action/research collective - returned to Cape Verde with Mário Bismark, Silvia Simões and Inês Vales, meeting up again with Leão Lopes. As last time in Chã das Caldeiras, we used drawing as a tool to understand the reality that surrounded us, either in the depiction of spaces or during conversations and portraits of the people we met. The project took place in two locations. The first was in São Filipe, on the island of Fogo, in partnership with the municipal council, and the second was on the island of São Nicolau, in Tarrafal, with the Museu da Pesca, with a view to a later publication with the images produced. Required "current" page
Three years later, as a member of the intercultural movement, the IDENTIDADES project - an action/research collective - returned to Cape Verde with Mário Bismark, Sílvia Simões and Inês Vales, meeting up again with Leão Lopes. As last time in Chã das Caldeiras, we used drawing as a tool to understand the reality that surrounded us, either in the depiction of spaces or during conversations and portraits of the people we met. The project took place in two locations. The first was in São Filipe, on the island of Fogo, in partnership with the municipal council, and the second was on the island of São Nicolau, in Tarrafal, with the Museu da Pesca, with a view to a later publication with the images produced. Required "current" page
Three years later, as a member of the intercultural movement, the IDENTIDADES project - an action/research collective - returned to Cape Verde with Mário Bismark, Silvia Simões and Inês Vales, meeting up again with Leão Lopes. As last time in Chã das Caldeiras, we used drawing as a tool to understand the reality that surrounded us, either in the depiction of spaces or during conversations and portraits of the people we met. The project took place in two locations. The first was in São Filipe, on the Island of Fogo, in partnership with the municipal council, and the second was on the island of São Nicolau, in Tarrafal, with the Museu da Pesca, with a view to a later publication with the images produced. Required "current" page
In October, he was selected and awarded the Young Art 2021 Prize by Carpe Diem - Arte e Pesquisa (CDAP) and the Millennium BCP Foundation. The exhibition presented the selected work, ‘O Cenário ou o Grande Interior’, during that month at P31 in Lisbon and was awarded with a gallery acquisition prize. Image courtesy of Carpe Diem Required "current" page
This group of landscapes was realised during the artist's residency held for the Encontrarte Art Biennale. Unlike the previous landscapes and because of their large scale, these were created in the space of the residency using on-site drawings.Required "current" page
In the summer of this year, he once again took part in another edition of the Encontrarte Art Biennal, in Amares, alongside Ruca Burbon, João Pais Filipe, Sarah Klimsh, Paulo Neves, José Rosinhas, Carlos Silva + Diogo Santos + Francisco Barbosa. This edition took the form of artist residencies that would culminate in a final exhibition and an informal publication, "Silo", a depository of images collected during the residencies. This edition, like all the others, is the result of the efforts of many people: Fernando Almeida, Martinho Antunes (ARC), Lázaro Silva, Carina Moutinho, Filipe Braga, Sílvia Cunha, João Ferreira, Francisco Babo, João Brites, Thomas Spallek, among many others. Required "current" page
It was at number 275 Rua Alvares Cabral in the city of Porto that Abel Mota co-founded O Bueiro with Afonso Rocha and Diogo Nogueira. However, before it had a name, it had already begun to be occupied in September of the previous year. It wasn't until the beginning of 2021 that the idea of a studio began to take shape. In these months, new works emerged, to which those produced in Amares were added. Throughout that year, the idea arose to present the space to the city with an inaugural exhibition that would take place in November of the same year. To this end, with the sponsorship of various organisations, they began a series of renovations to the space while new images were being created. Required "current" page
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