Alvarenga Marques

Brief biographical statement:
Al.Ma. is a Portuguese artist who was born in MOZAMBIQUE, where she spent her childhood.
Actually she lives and works at Porto, in the north of Portugal, divided between teaching and plastic creation.
AlMa took her Licentiate Degree in Painting in 1992 at FBAUP (University of Fine Arts of Porto).
She has participated in several collective Exhibitions and activities since 1988 in Portugal, Germany, Brazil, France, Spain, Canada, etc., she held several solo exhibitions in Portugal and received some awards and distinctions both in Portugal and abroad.
AlMa comes from a generation of artists that has chosen, facing a saturated visual world, the appropriation and recycling of several images from varied sources, for the last twenty, thirty years. Yet, her inclusion in this group is controversial, since instead of the usual method of unconditional stealing of references, historic quotations and the respective recycling giving rise to a scattering of the meaning, her case has been revealing a restricted idiosyncratic orientation.
That Alma wants us to be enraptured by this childhood world seems to be, in the very act, her aim. Though it clearly shows, at first sight, a good imitation of the compulsory child...

Licentiate’s degree in Plastic Art – Painting, by Fine Arts College of Porto University (ESBAP)

COLLECTIV EXHIBITIONS:
2023 – 7th Espinho International Art Biennial - Espinho Municipal Museum / FACE – Espinho; FozArte – Fort of S. João Batista - Porto
2022 – Pocket Art – Galeria Sete, Coimbra
2021 – MasKollektiv Project #signs of Hope - catalog/magazine (Curated by Genoveva Oliveira); Babuchas and Women - shoes that think - Footwear Museum, S João da Madeira; Artist's Mark, DaVinci Art Gallery, Matosinhos
2020 – Amália, Um olhar Contemporâneo - António Prates Gallery, Lisbon; 25 years in 25 stories- 25th anniversary of the dst Literature Grand Prize – Zet Gallery, Braga; UnKnown 2020 International Online Exhibition and art Camp, Asymmetry Art Group (Jabalpur- India); The Art of Sherlock Global 2 Special Edition, ilustration Book (#48 - The Adventure of the Missing Necklace); Art Around Us International Online Exhibition Foundation of Art and Culture , Bhopal, India
2019 – Perfeita Libação, Art Transforming – Museum of Bairrada Wine , Anadia; VII Biennial of Lusophone Cultures, Exhibition Center – Odivelas ; Arte em Lata -Espinho Municipal Museum / FACE; UBUNTU - Gondomar Exhbition- 3th Gaia International Art Biennial - Portugal
2018 – 'HÁBITATS' , artists Portugueses and Andaluzes – Meca - Almeria - Espanha;
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