The sculptor Rui Chafes is the winner of the Person in this his 29th edition, which coincides with the 80th anniversary of Fernando Pessoa’s death. Chafes is the first artist to receive the award since 1990, when it was assigned to the painter Menez (1926-1995).
Known by the lightness of his works in iron, your election material, Rui was born chafes in 1966 in Lisbon, graduated in Sculpture by the School of Fine Arts of Lisbon in 1989 and then attended the Kunstakademie of Düsseldorf in Germany, but exhibits individually since 1986.
The choice of Chafes It was announced on Friday late morning in Seteais Palace, the weekly owner Expresso, Franscisco Pinto Balsemão, who has had read the statement of the jury, which found that Rui Chafes is an artist who “achieves the rare feat of producing a work simultaneously without time and your time, “considered the jury.
With a monetary endowment of 60,000 euros, the prize is awarded by Express sponsored by Caixa Geral de Depósitos and annually distinguishes a person Portuguese nationals to “particularly relevant intervention and innovative in artistic, literary or scientific in the country.”
usual Contributor poets, publishing works with João Miguel Fernandes Jorge and Nuno Judice, the sculptor has in Romanticism German one of its cultural references, and even translated the Fragments Novalis during your stay in Germany in the early 90s.
The first exhibition Rui chafes in 1986 and 1987, reminded the jury of the Pessoa Prize, “are marked by the creation of facilities with precarious materials, that immediately were replaced by painted iron black, a more effective means to occupy and design the space which subverts normal conditions Museum and gallery, as seen in his exhibition Heaven weight , the Modern Art Centre of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 2014 “.
The jury of this 29. edition was chaired by Francisco Pinto Balsemão and integrated Álvaro Nascimento, Antonio Barreto, Clara Ferreira Alves, Diogo Lucena, Eduardo Souto de Moura, João Lobo Antunes, José Luis Porfirio, Maria Manuel Mota, Maria de Sousa, Mário Soares, Miguel Veiga, Peter Norton, Rui Magalhães Baiao, Rui Vieira Nery and Viriato Soromenho-Marques.
The jury’s statement also stresses that Chafes “has done important work in collaboration with artists from other disciplines, as exemplified Eat heart, with the dancer and choreographer Vera Mantero (Bienal de São Paulo, 2004) or Off / Out, with filmmaker Pedro Costa (Serralves, 2005/2006). “
Her work has been published in successive volumes, among which the jury highlighted Würzburg Bolton Landing , with parts of 1987 and 94; Harmony , 1995-98 sculptures; During the End , for the anthological held in Sintra, the Pena Park and the Museum of the Berardo Collection, in 2000, and A Breath , which covers a period from 1998-2002.
Balsemão ended this literature inventory with Between Heaven and Earth (The story of my life) , 2012, which he called “a dip in their own roots , which goes to the heart of the Middle Ages “. Rui Chafes intervention resulted in the cycle 100 Lessons , organized in 2011 under the centenary of the University of Lisbon, the text is a kind of artistic autobiography in which Chafes meets its many elective affinities in one artist that would cross the centuries, a bridge that goes from Naumburg anonymous master who, in the thirteenth century, carved the figures Ekkehard II and Ute at the Cathedral of the Bavarian city, to the very Chafes. Or more precsiamente, and to use their words. “After so many years working with great Masters, I am in a position to at least hope to get something done mine, to be able to create one day some valid sculpture Time will tell you, yet only now I’m starting “
Against the current of an old national tradition, whereby projection of some works of the utmost importance was only truly achieved after the death of its authors -. and this was precisely the case of Fernando Pessoa – the Pessoa Prize is intended to represent a new attitude, a new gesture in the contemporary recognition of cultural and scientific interventions produced by Portuguese
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