Júlio Alves
My work is deeply linked with the world around me. Everything I do is inspired in lived experience, places I see, booksI read, people I met, all that are buildings blooks of the constructions I made, I see them as special models of tension, a "momento" that yelds the power of tranformation.
Julio Alves has produced a diverse body of work that includes painting, drawing, installation and sculpture. With his studio based in Estoril, in the portuguese atlantic coast, he has developed his activity for nearly three decades and has carried out several solo and group exhibitions.
With an academic background in architecture, subsequently studied painting at the Society of Fine Arts of Lisbon and in recent years has been devoted entirely to painting.
It was during the last decade that he continually has developed the theme of the landscape that is still the core of his work.
The landscape in his work is more than a simple incursion into natural space, is built as a metaphor of man's relationship to the cosmos itself and refers to a mythical geography that takes place as a cosmology. Based on the notion that man builds the world the same way the world builds the man, his work is based on the perception of a reality which confront the objectivity of knowledge with the inability to explain all that is going on around us. This uncertain space loaded in each image, impels man to define scenarios and possibilities that give the illusion of being in the center of the world. So the images are not made from the reality and objective truth but also refer to the imaginary mythical projections.
The creation of a landscape vocabulary is based on a number of trips undertaken in recent years
That experience fueled his tematic approach and gave him ideias to further development about the nature as a cultural reality considering that the way of understanding it does not take place regardless of the cultural context of the observer
Graduated in architecture by FA Lisbon. Studies in National Society of Fine Arts of Lisbon. Founder of the intervention artistic group RIP 1981.
2020 - Exhibition at Maap studio "Elements in a Status Change"
2019 - Exhibition Galeria Orlando Morais, Ericeira, "Estado de Divergência"
2018 .- Exhibition Galeria Project Room na Cidadela Art District em Cascais, "Paradox of Real Expectations"
2016 - Exhibition Centro Cultural Palácio do Egipto , Oeiras, Vivificatur project;
2014 - Exhibition at Maap studio "Pulsar" and "Opus Circulatorium" projects;
2013 - Exhibition in Galeria Aberta, Beja, Projects: "Anger From Ashes"
2012 - Maap studio residency program in São Vicente fortress, Sagres and subsequent exhibition on the Maap of the project "Memory of a former future"
2011 - Exhibition at Maap studio, Project: "Great cruise"
2010 - Exhibition at the Fortaleza de Santiago Sesimbra, Exhibition at Maap studio "Eagle vision";
2009 - Exhibition na Galeria Costa do Sol, Almada;
2008 -Exhibition at the Fortaleza de Santiago Sesimbra;
2004 - Exhibition at Palácio Anjos in Algés;
1988 - Illustration work for "Contraste" magazine, Photography exhibition with catalog editing in Cascais;
1987 - Public Presentation of Utopian architectural project "Cascais XXI century";
1986 - Palace of Egypt in Oeiras;
1985 - Exhibition at the National Society of Fine Arts, Biennial University of Coimbra, Exhibition in the Crystal Palace in Porto, exhibition in the Faculdade de Letras, Lisbon.