MARTINHO DIAS , (b. 1968) is a visual artist from Portugal, degree in Fine Arts – Painting, by Oporto University. His work moves itself, above all, in a social and political criticism inside a contemporary reality. He unfolds this reality, which is common to us, in a suggestive, implied way. He privileges patterns of information collecting photographs from the mass media, such as newspapers, magazines or images taken from the television. In an intelligent way, he uses these “models” of his for the accomplishment of pictorial compositions, which are the substratum of the representations of figures and bodies of his painting, faced as an inevitability of the daily life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection):

2011

- Art Pocket 2011 , Gallery João Pedro Rodrigues, Oporto, Portugal;

- CIRCUMSTANCE , São Bento Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal;

- Group exhibition, Gallery Ao Longe o Mar, Viseu, Portugal;

- “Art in Secret”, group exhibition, Leões Gallery, Oporto, Portugal; 

- ART PARIS, International Art Fair , Grand Palais, by Saatchi Online, Paris, France;

- Perfection: Utopia of Women , collective exhibition, MOYA - Museum of Young Art, Palais Schönborn, Vienna, Austria;

2010

- 10th International Art Fair - ARTELisboa, by Galeria António Prates, Lisbon, Portugal;

- “Cem República”, group exhibition, Gallery António Prates, Lisbon, Portugal;

- Painting group exhibition, Clube Militar de Macau, Galeria 57, Macao, China;

- Collective “CINEMA STORIES II”, Biblioteca Municipal Rocha Peixoto, Póvoa de  Varzim, Portugal;

- “ The Flag – Peace&Love on the Global Village”, collective project, Denmark;

- “Info-processing”, painting, Galeria 57, Leiria, Portugal;

- Group exhibition, Galeria o Rastro, Figueira da Foz, Portugal;

2009

- 10th International Art Fair - ARTELisboa, by Galeria António Prates, Lisbon, Portugal;

- Group exhibition, Galeria O Rastro-Algarve, Portugal;

- STAGES, Del Veinte Galeria, Santander, Spain;

- “16 years of complicity in art”, Centro de Artes e Cultura, Ponte de Sor, Portugal;

- Painting, Casa-Museu Soledade Malvar, V. N. Famalicão, Portugal;

- WRITTEN PAINTINGS, Servartes – Espaço Cultural, Porto, Portugal;

2008

- Painting, Biblioteca Municipal de Ponte de Sor, Portugal;

- "Dialogues and Monologues", Galeria o Rastro, Figueira da Foz, Portugal;

- "arte x arte" - Bogotá08, Colombia;

2007

- WRITTEN PAINTINGS, Museu Santos Rocha, Figueira da Foz, Portugal;

- NEW BODY, Espaço Servartes, Porto, Portugal;

- APPLAUSE, Galeria de São Bento, Lisbon, Portugal;

- 2nd Internatioanl Art Fair artMADRID, by Galeria António Prates, Madrid, Spain;

- Collective exhibition, Galeria António Prates, Lisbon, Portugal;

2006

- APPLAUSE, painting, Galeria Cañizares, Salvador / Bahia, Brazil;

- 6th International Art Fair - ARTELisboa, FIL, by Galeria António Prates, Lisbon, Portugal;

- BODY IN EXPRESSION, Espaço Servartes, Porto, Portugal;