João Cutileiro OSE (26 June 1937 – 5 January 2021) was a Portuguese

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. He is responsible for a number of controversial female nudes in

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Life

Cutileiro was born and died in Lisbon. He was the creator of several pieces of modern public sculpture, most famous being his statue of

Sebastian of Portugal Sebastian ( pt, Sebastião I ; 20 January 1554 – 4 August 1578) was King of Portugal from 11 June 1557 to 4 August 1578 and the penultimate Portuguese monarch of the House of Aviz. He was the son of João Manuel, Prince of Portugal, and h ...

, inaugurated in 1973, in

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, in the

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. His work marks the end of the academic historical sculpture of the Estado Novo dictatorship and the beginning of a new era of contemporaneity in the Portuguese public sculpture.

Works

Estátua_de_D._Sancho_I_frente_ao_Castelo_de_Torres_Novas.JPG, Statue of

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facing the Castelo de Torres Novas in

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, 2007 Statue_of_Sebastian_of_Portugal_in_Lagos_(1).JPG, Statue of

, 2014 João Cutileiro' s Sculpture (14502962177).jpg, Sculpture at the Centro Cultural São Lourenço,

Almancil Almancil () is a town and ''freguesia'' in the Loulé Municipality, in the affluent Golden Triangle region of the Algarve of southern Portugal. Almancil is known for its three Michelin star restaurants, the most of any town in the Algarve. The t ...

, Algarve, 2009 João_Cutileiro_January_2016-1.jpg, Sculptures in the Lago das Tágides,

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, Lisbon, 2016 Lisboa_Monumento_25_Abril.jpg, Monument to the

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, in Lisbon, 2004 São João Baptista Cutileiro.JPG, Statue of St

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in the Ribeira Square of

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, 2007

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

* ''João Cutileiro'', Unikat-Galerie,

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1976/1977 and

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1980 * ''João Cutileiro. Amantes'', Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil, Portugal, 1987 * ''João Cutileiro. Exposição antológica'',

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation ( pt, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian), commonly referred to simply as the Gulbenkian Foundation, is a Portuguese institution dedicated to the promotion of the arts, philanthropy, science, and education. One ...

. Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal 1990 * ''João Cutileiro. Cavaleiros - Homenagem a

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'', Centro Cultural São Lourenço,

, Portugal 1990 * ''João Cutileiro no Pico'', Galeria Municipal das

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, Azores, 2011

Participations

* XV.

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, 1979 * 2nd Congress of the international organization for sculptors in

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, 1980 * ''Arte Contemporânea - Colecção Marie e Volker Huber'', with José de Guimarães,

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Ingo Kühl Ingo Kühl (born 29 June 1953) is a German painter, sculptor and architect. Life Grown up in Bovenau near Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein as a son of a policeman, Ingo Kühl attended the Theodor-Storm-Realschule in Hanerau-Hademarschen. Aft ...

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, Rainer Wölzl,

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among others, Convento Espírito Santo,

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, Portugal, 1989.

References

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