User:Hélio Cunha

Biography

Hélio Domingues da Cunha was born in Lisbon, Portugal. In 1978 he lived in England were he initiated his first art experiences and studies. In the eighties decade he studied at master sculptor Soares Branco workplace. He has been member of Viragem Art Gallery at Cascais and Fine Arts Activities Centre Árvore at Porto. Nowadays he is a member of Lisbon Society of Fine Arts (SNBA) and the Bual Cultural Circle in the city of Amadora. After 1982 he performed 28 Solo Exhibitions and he participated in about 100 Group Exhibitions.

Solo exhibitions

Materializations of Memory Casa do Alentejo (1984) Mith and Mask Lisbon Society Society of Fine Arts, SNBA (1986) Imperial Messange Amadora Town Hall Art Gallery (1987) Twilight of Mith own Hall Sintra Art Gallery (1988) The Woman in Hélio Cunha’s Painting Estoril Coast Council Art Gallery; Gynaecium Albatroz  Hotel, Cascais (1990) Abyss of Paradise Galeria Diário de Notícias (1991) Placental Voice Amadora Town Hall Art Gallery, intended for the International Women’s Day celebrations (1992) Unenchanted Forest Portuguese Aviation Pilots Association, APPLA; Lisbon; The Ilustrated Man Portugal Telecom Club, Lisbon (1994) Usher’s Window Imprevisto Bar, Lisbon; Galileo, Newton and Einstein Jardim do Marquês, Algés (1995) The Centre of the Labyrinth Vendas Novas Town Hall Auditorium (1996) Tannhäuser Gate LCR Art Gallery, Sintra; Sisyphus’s Myth Banco de Portugal (1997) Shadows of Utopia Lisbon’s Penta Hotel; Hibernaculum Portugal Telecom Club(1998) Arcatta Alfa Laval, Lund, Sweeden (1999) The Golden Apples of the Sun Portugal Telecom Union, Lisbon, intended for the celebrations of its eightieth anniversary; Dorian Gray and other Paintings UNESCO Centre, Porto (2000) Memories of Wholeness 4chats Art Gallery, Lisbon (2001) Remains of a Nonexistent Sea 25 de Abril Association (2003) Les Amants Tristes Convent of S. José Art Gallery, by Invitation of Lagoa Town Hall; Paradisaea Raggiana City of Amadora Contemporary Art Centre (2004) The Key to Paradise Capitel Art Gallery, Leiria; Stellar Flowers Portugal Telecom Art  Gallery, Oporto (2005) Casanova and other Paintings Andrade Corvo Art Gallery, Lisbon; Stone Dream Fitares metropolitan Art Gallery (2006) Golden Age Lisbon Society of Fine Arts, SNBA (2007)

Group exhibitions

Portuguese Society of Fine Arts, SNBA (1984, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97 e 07); Avante Biannual of Fine Arts Exhibition (1985, 87 e 89); New Authors, Viragem Art Gallery, Cascais (1989); Forum Portugal Telecom (1989 e 95); Diário de Notícias Art Gallery; Sintra Art Gallery; Contemporary Artists, Park Hotel Casino, Funchal, Madeira Island; 75 Artists at Mesão Frio (1990); Sabugal e Ciudad Rodrigo Biannual Exhibition (1991, 93 e 95); Casino Estoril Art Gallery; Artes Plásticas magazine Art Centre, Lisbon (1992); Walsall Art Gallery, England; Belém Cultural Centre, CCB, Lisbon (1993); Caixa Geral de Depósitos headquarters, Lisbon; 25 th of April/ 20 Years, Amadora Town Hall Art Gallery (1994); Vitória Cultural Space (1995, 97 e 03); International Fine Arts Exhibition of the city of Vendas Novas (1996, 97, 98, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04 e 06); Homage to Artur Bual, Amadora Town Hall Art Gallery; Group exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Meridien Hotel, Porto (1996); Fine Arts Activities Centre Árvore, Porto; LCR Art Gallery, Sintra; Portuguese Institute of Cardiology, IPC, Alentejo Fine Arts Biennual; Vila da Moita Fine Arts International Exhibition (1997); Salão Nobre, Nova Alfândega, Porto; II Exibition of City of Amadora Fine Arts Collection, Amadora Town Hall Art Gallery (1998); Belém Cultural Centre Art Gallery, CCB, Lisbon; 50 Years of Portuguese Painting and Sculpture, Foz Palace, Lisbon (1999); Iosephus Art Gallery, Lisbon; Faia Club Art Gallery; 9arte Virtual Art Gallery (2000); Water Museum, Museu da Água, Lisbon; April / Then Thousand Days of Freedom, Vendas Novas Town Hall Auditorium (2001); S. José Convent Art Gallery, Lagoa; Portugal Telecom Art Gallery, Porto (2002); 25 de Abril Association (2003); II Fair of Contemporary Art, Estoril Centre of Congresses; Art Hand in Hand, Paço da Cultura, Guarda; Surrealist Painting, Cervejaria Trindade Art Gallery (2004); Rodrigues Lobo Art GAllery, Leiria; III Exibition of City of Amadora Fine Arts Collection, Amadora Town Hall Art Gallery; Homage to José Ruy, Amadora Town Hall Art GAllery (2005); City of Amadora Contempporary Art Centre; XIII Meeting of Artists, Fitares Metropolitan Art GAllery; Arte na Planície, Montemor-o-Novo; III Meeting of Painters, Mina Library, Amadora (2006); I Group National Exibition of Contemporary Art; XIV Artists Meeting, Fitares Metropolitan Art Gallery; Homage to Cruzeiro Seixas, Amadora Town Hall Art Gallery; Association of Contemporary Art, MAC, Lisbon (2007); Filomena Soares Art Gallery, Lisbon; 111 Art Gallery, Lisbon; Cristina Guerra, Lisbon; Valbom, Lisbon; Colorida Art Gallery, Lisbon; Braco de Prata, Lisbon;

Private and public collections

Museums Lisbon Museum of Contemporary Art, Chiado Museum, Lisbon; Navy Museum, Belém, Lisbon; Condes de Castro Guimarães Museum, Cascais; Vila Real Museum, Trás-os-Montes; Sabugal Museum of Contemporary Art; Sintra district Museum; Soares Branco Museum and workhouse, Mafra; Walsall Metropolitan Museum, England; Luanda National Museum of Culture, Angola; Recife State Museum, Brazil; Macau Art Museum, Chinese Republic.

Town halls Amadora Town Hall, Lisbon District; Lagoa Town Hall, Algarve; Sintra Town Hall; Vendas Novas Town Hall.

Foundations Oriente Foundation, Lisbon; Eng. António de Almeida Foundation, Oporto; Portugal Telecom Foundation, Lisbon; Portuguese Foundation of Cardiology, Lisbon.

Associations 25 de Abril Association, Lisbon; Portuguese Aviation Pilots Association (APPLA); Portugal Telecom Social Assistance Association, Lisbon; Alfa Laval Art Association, Lund, Sweeden.

Other institutions Martins Sarmento Society, Guimarães; Lisbon; Santa Maria Hospital, Lisboa; Penha de França District Hall, Lisbon; Penta Hotel, Lisbon; Casa do Alentejo, Lisbon; Portugal Telecom Union, Lisbon; Portugal Telecom Club, Lisbon; Bloxwich Golf Club, England.

Miscellaneous

1st Prize in the Telecommunications Centennial Celebrations (1982) 1st Prize TLP (1986) 2d Prize TLP (1988) 3d Prize TLP (1989) Praised in Mergulhe na EXPO 98 Contest. Mentioned at: Artes Plásticas em Portugal / O Artista e o seu Mercado, Adrian Publishers. Criarte, Universitária Publishers. 50 Anos de Pintura e Escultura em Portugal, Universitária Publishers. Jury member for Artur Bual Painting and Sculpture Prize Contest (2005)

A documentary about his work, directed by Álvaro Queirós, is at ANIM archives, Cinema Movie House, Cinemateca Nacional, Lisbon.

Texts have been dedicated to his work by: Aida Sousa Dias (sculptress, previously director of Estoril Coast Council Art Gallery and Albatroz Hotel Art Gallery at Cascais) António Valdemar (art critic and vice-president of Lisbon Academy of Fine Arts, ESBAL) António Victorino de Almeida (maestro and composer, director and narrator of television cultural programes) Edgardo Xavier (art critic, previously director of Tempo Art Gallery in Lisbon) Eduardo Nascimento (sculptor and director of Amadora Town Hall Art Gallery and Amadora Contemporary Art Centre) José Man (painter, previously director of Viragem Art Gallery at Cascais) Manuel Bontempo (art critic) Margarida Botelho (art critic and art journalist for Lisbon’s Diário de Notícias) Maria João Bual (Amadora Town Hall culturall department director) Rui Mário Gonçalves (Art Critics Gulbenkian Prize) Rui Neves (cultural adviser for Gulbenkian Foundation and Lisbon Cultural Centre, CCB) Soares Branco (master sculptor represented with his work in several Lisbon open spaces)

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