Nogueira De Barros

Nogueira de Barros is an artist based in Portugal - Europe.
He is professional Fine Art abstract artist
Lives and works in Almada nearby Lisbon, Portugal

Statment:
Layer by layer I’m building abstract forms highlighting the beauty found in the process itself. The aim of my work is color, texture and roughness, strongly influenced by the beauty of nature. I look shapes in the relationship between natural and man-made elements. Nature has its own way of reinventing itself and over the years of regenerating itself. It is in the encounter of these processes that my pictorial search manifests itself. I seek perfection in the imperfections, in the insignificant and neglected marks that nature creates in the chaos of the human footprint.
Work instinctively with wood, thread, textures and colors. The materials are deconstructed using methodically plastic materials - spreading, burning and dyeing. Time is invested in its realization: the works can take days, weeks or months to be created. The works evolve organically. They are constructed with layers of paint, glue, resin, paper, in three-dimensional abstract shapes that hang between object and image. Together they create a unique, visual and tactile landscape of form, depth and texture ...

School : 

Studied Art paint in, ArCo - Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual – Lisbon , Portugal

Art History in, ArCo - Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual – Lisbon , Portugal

Studied Art paint in Art School “ Sociedade Nacional das Belas Artes “, Lisbon, Portugal

Complementary Year of Atelier with the Painter Jaime Silva, Lisbon, Portugal

2000: Galeria dos Cardaes – Principe Real – Lisbon, Portugal
2001: Agora Gallery – New York – USA
2002: Galeria Belo Belo – Braga, Portugal
2003: Museu da Água-Mãe D’Água – Lisbon, Portugal
2004: The Lennox Gallery – London- Inglaterra
2006: Fundação Dr. Cupertino de Miranda – Porto, Portugal
2006: Avagaleria –Helsinky– Finland
2007: Galeria TRIBECA – Madrid – Spain
2007: Galeria Jose Lorenzo –Santiago de Compostela-Spain
2012: Convento de S. José – Lagoa, portugal
2015: Galeria Jvalles – Restelo- Lisbon, portrugal
2017: Galeria Valle’s , Restelo- Lisbon, Portugal
2019: Galeria Zenite, Lisbon, Portugal
2020: Museu de Coimbra, Galeria Almedina, Coimbra, Portugal
2020: Galeria Óriq coletivo artistico , Lisbon, Portugal
2021: Galeria Arte Graça, Lisbon, Portugal
2021 : 66 Contemporary Art Gallery , lagos , Portugal
2022 : Oficinas de Formação e Animação Cultural de Aljustrel, Aljustrel, Portugal
2022: Tumboa Gallery - Porto
2022: Centro Ismaili de Lisboa -
2022: Espaço.Arte - Campo Maior
2022: Galeria Arte Graça - Lisboa
2023: Museu de Arqueologia e Numismática de Vila Real
2023: Camões I.P. de Lisboa
2023: Centro de Artes e Cultura de Ponte Sor
2023: Centro Cultural Macedo de Cavaleiros
2024: Centro Cultural Penedo da Saudade –...