Plastic artist Marilia Viegas, one of the founders of Lisbon’s Galeria Diferença, died Thursday at the age of 81, João Paulo Queiroz, chairman of the board of the National Society of Fine Arts, told Lusa this Sunday.
Marilia Luisa dos Santos Viegas was born in Faro on August 31, 1941.
After graduating from the Higher School of Fine Arts in Lisbon, where she completed a painting course in 1972, she received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, was a member of the National Society of Fine Arts and devoted herself primarily to engraving. in Gravura – Sociedade Cooperativa of Portuguese engravers, which brought together artists such as Julio Pomar, Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, Cipriano Dourado and Alice Jorge, and then in Galeria Diferença.
His activity began in 1964 when he participated in more than 150 group exhibitions in Portugal and abroad and 39 individual exhibitions, according to his curriculum published by Movimento Arte Contemporânea (MAC).
He exhibited several times at the Centro Cultural Português in Paris, especially in the 1970s, and also at the Lunds Konsthall in Sweden. Participated in national engraving exhibitions, namely at the headquarters of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon in 1981 and 1987 and in the III Gulbenkian Exhibition of Plastic Arts in 1986.
She was featured at the Biennale of Printmaking in Heidelberg, Germany, Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Krakow, Poland in the 1970s and 1980s, and in 1992 brought the “Portuguese Printmaking” to Oxford, UK.
The last individual and group exhibitions he participated in were at the Casa das Artes in Tavira (1990), at the Mãe d’Agua in Lisbon (1996) and at the José Malhoa Museum in Caldas da Rainha (2000). .).
His path has been marked by more than a dozen awards, such as the Câmara da Amadora Biennale of Engraving, which he has won several times, as well as awards for acquiring the national exhibitions of the former cooperative Gravura and the former Banco de Fomento.
He was one of the ten founding artists of Cooperativa Diferença in 1979, along with such names as Helena Almeida, Irene Buarque, Antonio Palolo and Ernesto de Souza.
She was a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon until she retired in 2004 as an adjunct professor.
It is represented in private collections and in organizations such as the Bank of Portugal, the Municipality of Amadora, the Cultural Center of Malaposta, the Mirandela, Sport and Bello Pinero Museums in Ferrol, Spain.
The website of the Center for Contemporary Art of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, dedicated to Marilia Viegas, presents three works by the artist: “Cosmos I-II”, “Landscape I” and “Mars II”.
According to the National Society of Fine Arts, to date, the body of Marilia Viegas is in an incineration chamber in the Church of Alfragida, and “the funeral will take place on Monday.”
There was no information about the place of death of the artist and drawing teacher.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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