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Francisco Tropa
Francisco Tropa was born in Lisbon in 1968. He studied
sculpture at Ar.Co – Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual
in Lisbon from 1987 to 1992, at the Royal College of
Arts of London in 1992 and at the Kunstakademie Münster
in 1995 and 1996.
Since his first individual exhibition in 1991, Francisco
Tropa’s artistic output has focused mainly on sculpture,
although drawing, the performing arts and more recently
photography and film have become frequent and
significant modes of expression in his artistic
imagination and practice.
Tropa’s work has earned widespread critical and
institutional acclaim and he is now considered one
of the most unique and idiosyncratic figures on the
Portuguese art scene. Individual shows of his work
have been put on at major national contemporary art
centres such as the Serralves Museum (1998), the Modern
Art Centre of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2003)
and Culturgest (2006). He has also taken part in
international landmark events, among them the São Paulo
Biennial (1999), the Melbourne Biennial (1999),
Manifesta (2000) and the 2003 Biennale di Venezia, where
he was invited to join the central exhibition ‘Dreams
and Conflicts’ by head curator Francesco Bonami. In
2011, besides taking part in the 54th International Art
Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, the artist will be
present at the upcoming Istanbul Biennial.
Francisco Tropa currently lives and works in Lisbon. |
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