"Ecalmed, indolent, defiant or oblivious stretch out on the white surface.
They all came out of that drawer as if they were, each one, the flap of an unmeasured sheet.
The trail, left by the coal in the opulent curves, betrays the model's passivity in the slanting dynamic.
Now, before all eyes, we stop looking at them in order to pay attention to the design.
And we perceive how the hand, skilful, scratches the support, tames the coal, caresses the leaf in new onslaught, marking the space.
Stripped down in subject and medium, each drawing narrates the time, exact, of that comfort of antagonisms that is the place of desire.
A woman, a man, a coal, a leaf meet, all naked, in absolute complicity.
Or they meet, alone, in each Station. To fulfil an ancestral rite, ANTÓNIO BRONZE and Verónica swap roles, keeping shrouds.
They found themselves alone."
MANUELA BRONZE
March 2000
Curriculum
– Advanced Course in Painting (ESBAP), 1962
– Scholarship awarded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Paris, 1964.
– He joined the Grupo de Gravadores do Porto 21G7 (Engravers' Cooperative), in 1959/60/61.
– Ceramic Training Course "RAKU" organised by ICEP (Instituto de Comércio Externo Português) and by Cerâmica S. Bernardo Ltd. under the supervision of Prof. Alain Girel, 1986.
– Ceramic Training Course promoted by Instituto do Emprego e da Formação Profissional "CENCAL" in Caldas da Rainha, promoted by the ceramist Prof. Francis Behets.
1956
SEN Gallery (Soc. Editora Norte) - Oporto.
1957
Modern Painting Exhibition, Sousa Cardoso Museum - Amarante.
1958
Once Portuguese Painters, April Gallery - Madrid.
1960
4th Exhibition of Modern Art, Sousa Cardoso Museum - Amarante.
Henriquinas Commemorations, Municipality of L. Marques (1st Prize - Painting) - Lourenço Marques.
Metropolis Exhibition of Plastic Arts, Poliarte Salon - L. Marques.
1963
Exhibition of Portuguese Art, Faculty of Medicine (Students' Assoc.) - Lisbon.
1965
Artists of Mozambique, Pretoria Art Museum - Pretoria (RSA).
1966
Artists of Mozambique, Durban Gallery - Durban (RSA).
1969
"O MAR", Plastic Arts Exhibition, V Centenary of Vasco da Gama, Municipality of L. Marques ~- L. Marques.
1971
Twelve Artists of Mozambique, Núcleo de Arte - Lourenço Marques.
1972
20 Artists, Text Gallery - Lourenço Marques.
1975
Popular Art Exhibition (Independence Celebrations), Maputo - P.R. Mozambique.
Survey of 20th Century Art in Porto, Soares dos Reis National Museum - Porto.
1976
Popular Art, 1st Anniversary of Independence, Artists of Mozambique, Maputo - P.R. Mozambique.
1982
Group Exhibition, Gallery 4 - Albufeira.
1986
"Foire des Potiers", 1er Salon Européen de l'Arisanat, Périgueux - France.
1989
II National Small Format Exhibition, Árvore Cooperative - Oporto.
1990
"The Pencil, Bicentenary of Invention", Árvore Cooperative - Oporto.
II Amadora Print Biennial - Amadora (S. Paulo and Curitiba - Brazil).
1991
"Painters and Sculptors of Mozambique", Art Gallery of the Casino Estoril - Estoril.
Fine Arts Exhibition, Mozambique Independence Celebrations, Moira Gallery - Lisbon.
1992
Small Format Exhibition, Art Gallery of the Casino Estoril - Estoril.
III Print Biennial, Culture Factory - Amadora.
Collective Exhibition, Art Gallery of Lagos (Litographs) - Lagos.
1993
12th Tree Members' Group Exhibition - Oporto.
National Painting Prize" exhibition.
Boavista Football Club, Árvore Cooperative - Porto.
Plastic Arts Biennial of the Festa do Avante - Seixal.
Júlio Resende National Painting Prize (2nd Edition), Auditório Municipal de Gondomar.
1994
13th Tree Members' Group Exhibition - Oporto.
V Printmaking Biennial, Culture Factory - Amadora.
Graveurs Portugais, Galerie Churchill, Liège - Belgium.
1995
ESBAP/FBAUP Exhibition, Alfândega Building - Oporto.
VIII Cerveira Biennial - Vila Nova de Cerveira.
14th Tree Members' Group Exhibition - Oporto.
IX Biennial of Plastic Arts of the "Festa do Avante" - Seixal.
1997
Convent of S. Domingos - Montemor-o-Novo.
Árvore Cooperative - Porto.
Casa Melo Alvim, Post Office.
Alto Minho Cultural Centre.
Augusto Bértholo Gallery - Alhandra - Vila F. de Xira.
1999
Virtual exhibition - http://www.ceramicarte.pt/exposicoes
Museu de Évora - 2nd Print Festival of Évora - Évora
Degrau Arte" Gallery - Porto
2000
Arvore Cooperative - Porto
Virtual exhibition - http://www.ceramicarte.pt/exposicoes
Estela Gallery - Porto
2004
He passed away
2005
Launch of his book
