Location: Portugal
Drawings, Paintings, Photos, Instalations, Performaces
Visual artist - Cláudia Matoos has dual nationality: Portuguese and Brazilian.
From childhood to youth, she was a classical and contemporary dancer. Gradually, she replaced her ballet shoes with brushes. Among canvases, papers, pencils and paints, she graduated in Artistic Education, doing her Master’s degree on Schiller and Art. Like the philosopher Schiller, Claudia believes that “the artist is the son of his time”. PhD in Visual Arts, she developed a thesis on a generation of artists and intellectuals who maintained, for ten years, a Utopian Art Gallery, in years of repression in Brazil. She taught Arts for 21 years and was also a university teacher in Brazil. She was an invited teacher in the Drawing area at Faculdade de Belas-Artes of Universidade de Lisboa, from 2013 to 2016.
Nowadays – She is a director of Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes de Lisboa, SNBA and researcher at Centro de Investigação e Estudos em Belas-Artes of Universidade de Lisboa, CIEBA-UL. Portugal.
As an artist, she has held several international and individual exhibitions. She has participated in conferences, national and international congresses. Her research interest includes Art, Painting, Drawing, Art Education, History of Art,Image and Culture.
I believe the landscape is part of man. I try to see what exists beyond the landscape.
We are integrated with nature, but many people are not aware that our planet is a living organism.
In developing a metaphysical look at the landscape, I want my artworks to act as a moment of reflection.
Contemporary man needs to be aware that by connecting with the landscape, he is connecting to himself. He may try to immerse himself in the landscape, may find the lost inner silence, establish a connection and a dialogue with nature.
Acrylic painting on canvas, 90 X 70 cm, 2016.
Acrylic painting on canvas, 80 cm X 60 cm, 2015.
Acrylic on canvas; 80 cm X 60cm, 2015.
Acrylic painting on canvas; 90 cm X 70 cm, 2016.
Acrylic on canvas
I develop some interventions in the territory, but there is also something I conceptualize as “the random’s aesthetics”. My paintings aims to reflect about the “Archeology of Absence” as a concept which reveals: the presence of absence, the vestiges found in a landscape and the relationship between human being and this place.
Acrylic painting on canvas, 60 cm X 50 cm, 2016.
Acrylic painting on canvas, 90 cm X 70 cm, 2016.
Acrylic painting on canvas, 100 cm X 80 cm, 2016.
Acrylic painting on canvas, 90 cm X 70 cm, 2016.
Acrylic painting on canvas, 60 cm X 50 cm, 2016.
“CONNECTIONS”
“PINES: THE IMMERSION”
“SILENCE”
“DIALOGUE”
“PHOENIX”
“ABSENCE”
“COMPLICITY”
“MEMORIES”
“VESTIGES”
“PAST”
