Arte e Coleccionismo

José Pádua

Serigrafia

Assinada e Datada de 2005

Serie: PE 4/7

Título: "Paisagem Africana"

Com 70x50cm

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José Pádua

Signed Serigraphy

Dated 2005

Titled "African Landscape"

With 70x50cm

 

 

José Carlos Padua born in the City of Beira, May 13, 1934), is a Portuguese artist.

He lived until 1977 in Beira.

In 1966 he was elected by the newspaper "A Tribuna" the Mozambican Plastic Artist of the Year, the remarkable and multifaceted body of work that same year held as a painter, decorator, illustrator and writer.

Between 1974 and 1978 he worked exclusively for the Art Gallery R. Renie, Harare, Zimbabwe.

Since 1977 he moved to Portugal, while maintaining a strong link with Mozambique, where he held solo exhibitions of painting in 1996 and 1998.

Received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 1979, 1980 and 1981, a course in metal lithography and etching.

In 1980 and 1981 he was honored by the city of Lisbon with the 2nd and 1st Awards, respectively, in group exhibitions on themes of Lisbon.

He has authored numerous illustrations in newspapers, magazines and books and papers in the field of sculpture and tile and cement in murals in Mozambique (Airports of Maputo and Beira, Banco Pinto & Sotto Mayor, Montepio of Mozambique Bank Credit Commercial and industrial, among others) and the Bank of Lisbon & South Africa in Johannesburg.

He's represented in the National Art Museum (Maputo), Painting Museum (Beira), the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Lisbon) and several private collections in Mozambique, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Brazil, Canada, USA, UK, Japan, Israel, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, etc.

He did the illustration of the book cover "Afrozambeziando Nymphs and Goddesses" Delmar Maia Gonçalves.

Participates in numerous group exhibitions in Portugal and abroad.

He was honored at the Third Meeting of Mozambican Writers in the Diaspora in 2010 and is Honorary Member of the Mozambican Writers Circle of the Diaspora since 2011.