She paints vibrant colors onto many of her photographs, and attaches objects to others, … Rather, "My work is my body, my body is my work."

[4] She exhibited a black and white photograph of herself wearing a canvas, arms spread and looking down – as in Christ carrying the cross.
Helena Almeida’s black-and-white photographs of herself depict performances and various actions inflicted upon canvases, color, and other art objects. Almeida earned international recognition starting in the 1970s for her striking black-and-white images, which often portrayed impossible acts—the artist with pen making … The images of hands led to a series of photographic works with the title Drawing (Desenho) 1999 (artist’s collection, La Fábrica, Madrid, and 9Arte, Barcelona). Almeida was widely considered one of Portugal’s most significant postwar artists, and in addition to her numerous exhibitions worldwide, showed work at the 1982 and 2005 Venice Biennales. Helena Almeida Exhbition View; 3.


artforum.com is a registered trademark of Artforum International Magazine, New York, NY. [In] the studio, Helena Almeida starts off by drawing; her thoughts are on drawing. Study for inner improvement 1977; 6.Inhabited Drawings; 7.Inhabited Drawing 6; 8. She uses and abuses the colors that reflects optimistic and loving view of the world around her.

She was initially reticent to expose this aspect of her practice because she has always thought of drawing as a preliminary process in the creation of the photographic and video works for which she is better known. Almeida avoided creating self-portraits. We would like to hear from you. Thus, drawing acts as an inner methodology for the artist’s creative practice …

In her work, a woman's image is always present, but the image is transformed in a painting or drawing. Helena Almeida, the Portuguese avant-gardist who merged drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, and performance to unsettle the possibilities of self-representation, died on Tuesday, September 25, at age eighty-four. Illusion made physical is an inherent part of Helena Almeida’s work as is performance. Helena Almeida: 27 exhibitions from Oct 1976 - Dec 2016, exhibition venues worldwide of artist Helena Almeida, Exhibition History, Summary of artist-info.com records, Solo/Group Exhibitions, Visualization, Biography, Artist-Portfolio, Artwork Offers, Artwork Requests, Exhibition Announcements Curator and writer Delfim Sardo has described the role of drawing in Almeida’s practice as follows: These thirty-eight drawings made in 1995–9 relate specifically to Almeida’s later projects. Further reading [2] After spending some years raising her family, in 1964 she obtained a scholarship and moved to Paris.

The Art Institute’s exhibition is Almeida’s first solo … She was the daughter of the sculptor Leopoldo de Almeida (1898–1975).

Inhabited Canvas series; 4.Study For Inner Improvement 1976 ; 5. Almeida emerged in the context of the late 1960s and 1970s—at the advent of feminist and performance-oriented art, when many young, avant-garde practitioners explored the physicality of the artist’s body and art making as a literal record of actions taken in the studio. At the drawing board, on those faceless, historyless A4 sheets, the artist places the first burst of a gesture, of the position or action which she will then test in the area of the studio where the first video recording is done, followed by the photo shoot. Inhabited Drawing ; 9.a Planning Drawings; 9.Inside Me 18 Elements; 10.Seduce; Helena Almeida’s solo exhibition is presented in WIELS alongside the two floor extravaganza from Erik van Lieshout. As she once put it, “My painting is my body, my work is my body.” Almeida continued to make art in her later years from her Lisbon studio, and an exhibition of her work from the 1990s is currently being shown in London at Tate Modern through November 4. The broad range of her work and experimentation includes "design to cinema, from paintings to comics, from photography to sculpture, from architecture to performance. For over forty years she has deliberately interrogated the boundaries of the various artistic disciplines she employs, including drawing, painting and photography.