Known by the name of the city where he was born, José de Guimarães (1939) is a figure of Portuguese art, who explored different areas from the plastic arts, through geology, engineering to archaeology. Travels to Africa, Asia and South America marked his career by stimulating and developing an aesthetic language. At the end of the 1970s, he created an alphabet based on the shapes
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Known by the name of the city where he was born, José de Guimarães (1939) is a figure of Portuguese art, who explored different areas from the plastic arts, through geology, engineering to archaeology. Travels to Africa, Asia and South America marked his career by stimulating and developing an aesthetic language. At the end of the 1970s, he created an alphabet based on the shapes and symbols of African culture, introducing these into his works. In the 1980s he began to explore the boundaries between painting and sculpture, with pieces produced with unconventional materials - fiberglass and paper specifically made by the artist himself. With strong and cheerful colors, his works are characterized by the crossing of themes between animal and human, mineral and vegetable. For decades, the Portuguese artist collected African art, pre-Columbian and ancient Chinese art that is currently on display at CIAJG - Centro Internacional de Artes José de Guimarães.
