LUIS ATHOUGUIA

Luis Athouguia. Born in Cascais, Portugal in 1953. Certification in Arts and Design by IADE, Lisbon.

Exhibits since 1983, in more than two hundred important events.

 Comments about his work 

“... his painting reveals a search for signs, interior and exterior, in constant dialogue between light and material, between the voices of the soul and the almost carnal forms that seem to inhabit some of his paintings as living and autonomous organisms. Throughout all his work passes, in unmistakable tones, an expressed wish or an uncontained dream of freedom and harmony, which echoes in all of us.”

“In the intimacy of his work... the minimum gesture reflects a personal religion or healthy skepticism and a fragile equilibrium in the stroke that defines the frisson of his own vertiginous life, and is an eternal rebirth to the daily exercise of meditation, as in gestured Zen... evoking, in the symbolism of his wise strokes, the memory of the gothic mirages of Manuelism in search of those spiritual Indias where, in vortexes of light, is sighted the hope of a redemption...”  

“They are pathetic pilgrimages through oneiric, erotic-sentimental landscapes, an almost obsessive fascination by the curvilineal escape, aIluding to a deliberately interminable espaciality."

“… the solitary grandness of the interior landscapes drapes itself in caprichious forms that the prodigious luxuriousness of sensibility and imagination creates, a bit each day, a bit in each work.”  

"... Pieces of dreams, gardens for our eyes to wander in, obscure remembrances, intermittent illuminations, fugitive words, windows of his soul, his natural breathing... Luis' s painting is encounter and divergence, a certain dose of solitude, an echo, a tenuous bridge, the light of dawn, the discreet undulating of the sea in the dryness of the landscape, the border between yesterday and today, a journey project.” 

One-Person Exhibitions

Gal. São Mamede, Lisboa - Paços do Concelho, Ponta Delgada - Gal. Velasquez, Valladolid - Gal. Maria Lebre, Tomar - Gal. Escudeiros, Beja - Casa Vieira Guimarães, Tomar - Gal. de Fitares, Sintra - Gal. Pepper’s, Caldas da Rainha - Gal. de Arte do Barreiro - Gal. de Arte de Abrantes - Fábrica das Artes, Torres Vedras - Gal. de Arte de Albufeira - Capela da Misericórdia em Sines - Centro Cultural de Lagos - Museu de Electricidade, Lisboa – Convento de S. José, Lagoa - Palácio Pombal, IADE, Lisboa – Museu Martins Correia, Golegã - Galeria Artur Bual, Paços do Concelho da Amadora – Galeria C T T, Lisboa – Galeria BCN Art Direct, Barcelona - MAC Movimento de Arte Contemporânea, Lisboa. 

Some Collective Exhibitions

MAC Movimento de Arte Contemporânea, Lisboa - Gal. S. Mamede, Lx - Gal. Potthoff, Lx - Gal. 65 A, Lx - Gal. Conventual, Alcobaça - Gal. Arthouse, Cascais - Quinta das Cruzadas, Sintra - Gal. Fitares, Sintra – Gal. LCR, Sintra - Gal. Iosephus, Lx - Die Galerie, Ericeira - Gal. Fábrica das Artes, T. Vedras - Gal. Cólicas, Ponte do Rol - Gal. Pirâmide, Lx - Gal. Ler Devagar, Lx - Espaço Pedralvas, Lx - Centro Cultural de Belém, Lx – Centro Cultural da Nazaré - Gal. Pedro Sem, Lx - Gal. Maré d’Arte, Carvoeiro – Galeria BCN Art Direct, Barcelona – Museu Regional de Sintra - Museu de Electricidade, Lx - Palácio Foz, Lx - Palácio da Independência, Lx – Museu de Arte Sacra, Alcochete - Convento de Cristo, Tomar - Convento da Graça, T. Vedras - Convento de S. Francisco, Monsaraz. 

Biennuals

Vila Nova de Cerveira, Sabugal, Avante, F. P.  of Lisbon, Vendas Novas, Alentejo, Góis, Amadora, Montijo.