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Artist Statement -



The complexity and the multiple facets of the global world are my main fundamentals. Selecting and manipulating images, essentially from the press and popular magazines, I try to create a new suggested reality, a new narrative, open to the viewer.
Resorting to the realism of the figures and the gestural abstraction, the paradox, the contrariety, the criticism or irony, what I do is unfold the reality, individual and collective, which is common to us, reconfiguring it in the plan of the canvas.

Along my journey as a painter, I have also developed ways of communication with different cultures, as well as other areas, particularly the music and their players.
Projects like "Written Paintings" and "Pangea" (vídeo, currently in progress, involving entities and singers from 26 countries), they gave me the pleasure of collaboration of Kepa Junkera, Pauline Oliveros, Peter Ablinger, Gianluigi Trovesi, Robert Rich, Eurico Carrapatoso, Amélia Muge or António Victorino d'Almeida, among many others.

Artist Exhibitions



SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection only from 2010):

2015
– Martinho Dias PAINTING 005'015, solo exhibition, Espinho Municipal Museum, Espinho (Porto area), Portugal;

2014
- I BELONG TO MYSELF, solo exhibition, MAC – Movement of Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal;
- ATTITUDES, Artkate Gallery, Berlin, Germany;
- Guardian of the Edge, (Agnes Marton Org.), Cour de Justice de l’Union Européenne, Luxemburg;
- 10 Languages in Contemporary Figuration, José Rodrigues Foundation, Porto, Portugal;
- SCHOK’2014, 10th Schoorlse Kunsten, premiere of video PANGEA, Damtheater, Schoorl, Netherlands;
- PO(L)VO, solo exhibition, O RASTRO Gallery, Figueira da Foz, Portugal;


2013
- Isola dei Colori – Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, Sant’ Antioco – Sardinia, Italy;
- Martinho Dias - painting, João Pedro Rodrigues Gallery, Oporto, Portugal;

2012
- Art Pocket 2012, João Pedro Rodrigues Gallery, Oporto, Portugal;
- MiTo Gallery, Warsaw, Poland;
- IN PERSONA: 10th International Artistic Symposium, Saarbrücken, Germany;
- Group exhibition, Ermesinde Cultural Forum, Ermesinde, Portugal;
- Fado North, group exhibition, Casa da Galeria, Sto. Tirso, Portugal;
- Global Village’2012 – an exhibition IRL, collective project:
Projekt 072, Alkmaar, Netherlands;
Château de Sully, Burgundy, France;
Kulturhuset Brønden, Copenhagen, Denmark;

2011
- 2011 Mobile Art, paintings and sculptures of pocket, João Pedro Rodrigues Gallery, Oporto, Portugal;
- CIRCUMSTANCE, São Bento Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal;
- Group exhibition, Gallery Ao Longe o Mar, Viseu, Portugal;
- Art in Secret, group exhibition, Leões Gallery, Oporto, Portugal;
- ART PARIS, International Art Fair, Grand Palais, by Saatchi Online, Paris, France;
- Perfection: Utopia of Women, collective exhibition, MOYA - Museum of Young Art, Palais Schönborn, Vienna, Austria;

2010
- 2011 Mobile Art, paintings and sculptures of pocket, João Pedro Rodrigues Gallery, Oporto, Portugal;
- 10th International Art Fair - ARTELisboa, by Galeria António Prates,
Lisbon, Portugal;
- 8th International Biennial of Arts of Marinha Grande, by
Gallery António Prates - Lisbon, Portugal;
- Cem República, group exhibition, Gallery António Prates, Lisbon, Portugal;
- Painting group exhibition, Military Club of Macao, Gallery 57, Macao, China;
- CINEMA STORIES II, group exhibition, Municipal Library Rocha Peixoto, Póvoa de
Varzim, Portugal;
- The Flag – Peace & Love on the Global Village, collective project, Denmark;
- Info-processing, painting, Gallery 57, Leiria, Portugal;
- Group exhibition, Gallery O Rastro, Figueira da Foz, Portugal;

2009
- Group exhibition, Galeria O Rastro-Algarve, Portugal;
- STAGES, Del Veinte Galeria, Santander, Spain;
- “16 years of complicity in art”, Centro de Artes e Cultura, Ponte
de Sor, Portugal;
- Painting, Casa-Museu Soledade Malvar, V. N. Famalicão, Portugal;
- WRITTEN PAINTINGS, Servartes – Espaço Cultural, Porto, Portugal;

2008
- Painting, Biblioteca Municipal de Ponte de Sor, Portugal;
- "Dialogues and Monologues", Galeria o Rastro, Figueira da Foz,
Portugal;
- "arte x arte" - Bogotá08, Colombia;

2007
- WRITTEN PAINTINGS, Museu Santos Rocha, Figueira da Foz, Portugal;
- NEW BODY, Espaço Servartes, Porto, Portugal;
- APPLAUSE, Galeria de São Bento, Lisbon, Portugal;
- 2nd Internatioanl Art Fair artMADRID, by Galeria António Prates,
Madrid, Spain;
- Collective exhibition, Galeria António Prates, Lisbon, Portugal;

2006
- APPLAUSE, painting, Galeria Cañizares, Salvador / Bahia, Brazil;
- 6th International Art Fair - ARTELisboa, FIL, by Galeria António Prates, Lisbon, Portugal;
- BODY IN EXPRESSION, Espaço Servartes, Porto, Portugal;
- NEW BODY, painting, Clube Literário do Porto, Porto, Portugal;

2005
- 5th International Art Fair - ARTELisboa, Galeria Pedro Serrenho, FIL, Lisbon, Portugal;
- Projected Images < Instalations, with Vitor Rua, Nuno Rebelo, Phill Niblock, each others, Casa dos Dias da Água, Lisbon, Portugal;

2004
- Collective exhibition, Galeria Electra, Porto, Portugal;
- “19th Biennial of Illustrations of Bratislava”, Slovak Republic;

2003
- INDISPOSITION, Galeria Santa Clara, Coimbra, Portugal;

2002
- 2nd Baviera Painting Prize, Museu dos Transportes e Comunicações,
Porto, Portugal;
- 2nd Painting Biennial Young Art, Penafiel, Portugal;

2001
- Julio Resende National Prize, Gondomar, Portugal;
- 11th International Biennial of Art of Vila Nova de Cerveira,
Portugal;

2000
- 1st Painting Biennial Young Art, Penafiel, Portugal;
- 3rd Biennial of Fine Arts of Marinha Grande, itinerant to La Granja, Spain;

1999
- "April Days Exhibition", Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, V. N. de Famalicão, Portugal;
- One of the representatives of Portugal in “The Winsor & Newton Worldwide Millennium Painting Competition” exhibited in The Mall Galleries, London; World Trade Center in Stockholm, Stockholm and United Nations Headquarters, New York;
- Collective exhibition, Galeria Delaunay, Vila do Conde, Portugal
- "11th Biennial of Avante Party", Seixal, Portugal;


AWARDS:

2010 - Silver Award - attribution by the virtual art gallery ArtMageur.com;
2007 - 1st Prize, BODY IN EXPRESSION, Servartes Space, Oporto, Portugal;
2002 - Honor Mention, 2nd Painting Biennial Young Art, Penafiel, Portugal;
2000 - Honor Mention, 1st Painting Biennial Young Art, Penafiel, Portugal;
1983 - Honor Mention, “Shankar’s International Children’s Competition”, New Delhi - India;
- 1st Prize in the competition “Santo Tirso seen by the young”, Portugal.
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