João Cutileiro
João Cutileiro (26 June 1937 – 5 January 2021) was a Portuguese sculptor. He is responsible for a number of controversial female nudes in marble.
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- Name
- João Cutileiro
- Born
- 26 June 1937
- Birthplace
- Lisbon, Portugal
- Died
- 5 January 2021
- Place of death
- Lisbon
- Known for
- Sculptor
- Nationality
- Portugal
- Occupation
- sculptor · ceramicist · artist
- Languages
- Portuguese
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João Cutileiro (26 June 1937 – 5 January 2021) was a Portuguese sculptor. He is responsible for a number of controversial female nudes in marble.
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• Name — João Cutileiro • Born — 26 June 1937 • Birthplace — Lisbon, Portugal • Died — 5 January 2021 • Place of death — Lisbon • Known for — Sculptor • Honorific Suffix — OSE
Life
Life
Cutileiro was born and died in Lisbon. He was the creator of several pieces of modern public sculpture, most famous being his statue of Sebastian of Portugal, inaugurated in 1973, in Lagos, in the Algarve. His work marks the end of the academic historical sculpture of the Estado Novo dictatorship and the beginning of a new era of contemporaneity in the Portuguese public sculpture.
Works
Works
• Illustration — Statue of Sancho I of Portugal facing the Castelo de Torres Novas in Torres Novas, 2007 • Illustration — Statue of Sebastian of Portugal in Lagos, Algarve, 2014 • Illustration — Sculpture at the Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil, Algarve, 2009 • Illustration — Sculptures in the Lago das Tágides, Parque das Nações, Lisbon, 2016 • Illustration — Monument to the Carnation Revolution, in Lisbon, 2004 • Illustration — Statue of St John the Baptist in the Ribeira Square of Porto, 2007
Solo exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
• João Cutileiro, Unikat-Galerie, Wuppertal 1976/1977 and Dortmund 1980 • João Cutileiro. Amantes, Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil, Portugal, 1987 • João Cutileiro. Exposição antológica, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal 1990 • João Cutileiro. Cavaleiros - Homenagem a Paolo Uccello, Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil, Portugal 1990 • João Cutileiro no Pico, Galeria Municipal das Lajes do Pico, Azores, 2011
Participations
Participations
• XV. São Paulo Art Biennial, São Paulo, 1979 • 2nd Congress of the international organization for sculptors in Washington, D.C., 1980 • Arte Contemporânea - Colecção Marie e Volker Huber, with José de Guimarães, Antoni Tàpies, Günter Grass, Ingo Kühl, Wolf Vostell, Rainer Wölzl, Corneille among others, Convento Espírito Santo, Loulé, Portugal, 1989.

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João Cutileiro was born in Lisbon.
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João Cutileiro died in Lisbon.
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- 1.Hellmut Wohl in Colóquio. Artes, Lisboa. Exposiçao de Cutileiro na Alemanha. 1976.
- 2.Hellmut Wohl in Colóquio. Artes, Lisboa. The sculpture of João Cutileiro. 1978.
- 3.Dortmund Kirchhörde. Unikat-Galerie. João Cutileiro. Skulpturen und Mosaike. 1980.
- 4.Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil (Portugal). João Cutileiro. Amantes. 1987. 1074908151.
- 5.Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal). João Cutileiro. 1990. 959126144.
- 6.Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil. João Cutileiro. Cavaleiros - Homenagem a Paolo Uccello. 1990. 959108786.
- 7.Exposição de João Cutileiro no Pico. AZORESdigital. 26 December 2006.
- 8.Convento Espírito Santo, Loulé. Arte Contemporânea - Colecção Marie e Volker Huber. 1989.
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