Sobral rye.
He was born in Porto, in 1948, the city where he lives and works.
Graduated in Fine Arts (FBAUP), he was a scholarship holder at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (1983-1985) and a professor at the Porto Polytechnic Institute (1987-2006).
Close to the neo-expressionism of the 1970s, Sobral Centeno concentrates in his work the energy and axiological and aesthetic flows of this movement. Detached from realistic intentionality, this artist's painting does not ignore the reality of contemporary societies, but reinterprets it through the European, African and Brazilian image filter, populating his canvases with symbols such as crosses, snakes, masks or ladders.
His work is included in several national and international collections, notably the following: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Modern Art Center (Portugal); Kunstmuseum Walter im Glaspalast (Germany); Shoes or No Shoes Musem (Belgium); L ́ Unesco La Galerie d ́Art (France); Institute of Contemporary Art (Brazil).
Graduated in Fine Arts (FBAUP), he was a scholarship holder at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (1983-1985) and a professor at the Porto Polytechnic Institute (1987-2006).
Close to the neo-expressionism of the 1970s, Sobral Centeno concentrates in his work the energy and axiological and aesthetic flows of this movement. Detached from realistic intentionality, this artist's painting does not ignore the reality of contemporary societies, but reinterprets it through the European, African and Brazilian image filter, populating his canvases with symbols such as crosses, snakes, masks or ladders.
His work is included in several national and international collections, notably the following: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Modern Art Center (Portugal); Kunstmuseum Walter im Glaspalast (Germany); Shoes or No Shoes Musem (Belgium); L ́ Unesco La Galerie d ́Art (France); Institute of Contemporary Art (Brazil).