Ana Jotta
Ana Jotta | |
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| Born | 1946 |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Education | Escola de Belas Artes de Lisboa (ESBAL), Lisbon; La Cambre, Brussels |
| Known for | Visual art, installation |
| Awards | Grande Prémio EDP/Arte 2013[1] |
Ana Jotta is a Portuguese artist born in 1946[2] in Lisbon.
Early life[edit]
Ana Jotta studied art at ESBAL – Escola de Belas Artes de Lisboa (Lisbon School of Fine Arts) and at La Cambre in Brussels.[3] From 1976 to 1979 Jotta was an actress and a decorator for cinema and theatre. She became more focused on visual arts since the 1980s.[4]
Career[edit]
Jotta explores all artistic fields: painting, sculpture, installation, sound, photography. She also works with craft techniques like sewing, embroidery and pottery.[5] Her projects are extremely varied, she invents new and unexpected forms for each of her exhibitions. In 2018, she co-curated with Ricardo Valentim "from A to C",[6] an exhibition of works by Al Cartio and Constance Ruth Howes at Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.
Jotta has had two major career retrospectives: "Rua Ana Jotta"[7] at Museu Serralves (Porto, 2005)[8] and "A Conclusão da Precedente" at Culturgest (Lisboa, 2014).[9]
References[edit]
- ^ Rato, Vanessa. "Ana Jotta, "a mais jovem das artistas portuguesas", ganhou o Grande Prémio EDP". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-01-03.
- ^ "Ana Jotta | Widewalls". www.widewalls.ch. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ "ProjectoMAP – Mapa de Artistas de Portugal". Project MAP. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ "Ana Jotta at le Crédac – Art Viewer". Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ "Ana Jotta: DAS". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ "Al Cartio and Constance Ruth Howes from A to C". Museu Calouste Gulbenkian. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- ^ "Rua Ana Jotta".
- ^ "Obra de Ana Jotta da coleção de Serralves". Infraestruturas de Portugal (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ "A Conclusão da Precedente". Culturgest (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-07-27.
External links[edit]
- Ana Jotta works at the Gulbenkian Museum
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