Inês Tique was born in Lisbon in 1971. He graduated in Portuguese decorative arts at ESAD-FRESS and, for the next 8 years, worked as an interior and furniture designer. Motivated by his great friend and artist Eleonora Drummond, between 1998 and 1999, Tique attended a painting course at ArCO in Lisbon. He participated in several individual and group exhibitions and in several biennials in Portugal. It is represented in private collections in Portugal, Spain, France,
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Inês Tique was born in Lisbon in 1971. He graduated in Portuguese decorative arts at ESAD-FRESS and, for the next 8 years, worked as an interior and furniture designer. Motivated by his great friend and artist Eleonora Drummond, between 1998 and 1999, Tique attended a painting course at ArCO in Lisbon. He participated in several individual and group exhibitions and in several biennials in Portugal. It is represented in private collections in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Brazil, Canada and the United States of America. It was following her solo exhibition at the Centro Cultural de Cascais that Tique was selected to join the CMVM private collection and to be the only artist permanently exhibited at the entrance to the institution's headquarters building in Lisbon. In 2005 she moved with her husband to California where she took a painting course at UC Berkeley with painter Larry Robinson. At the end of the same year he moved to New York where Tique took a course at The Art Students League of NYC with painter Bruce Dorfman. During the following decade he continued to paint without showing his work. In 2020 he took another painting course at The Art Students League of NYC with the artist Ronnie Landfield and in September of the same year he returned with his family to Portugal. He paints and works at MAD in Marvila, Lisbon.
Tique is characterized by his large-scale paintings and the use of different materials: acrylic, oil, Chinese ink, charcoal, wax, clay, collages, canvas, wood, velvet and photography. Combines abstract expressionism with gestures. She likes to refer to her work as being vulnerable and confrontational, anchored in a provocation capable of generating a response.
In opposition to his perfectionist tendency, Tique seeks error and imperfection through vulnerability and free, intuitive gestures.
Interested in the cycle of life. For energy, movement, inter-cultural connections and the coexistence between humans, nature and the universe. Tique likes to react against the minimalist and conceptual tendency characteristic of seventies art and opposes modernism and the tendency to reject narratives.
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