João Cutileiro

Portuguese sculptor (1937–2021)

João Cutileiro
João Cutileiro 2014
Born	(1937-06-26)26 June 1937 Lisbon, Portugal
Died	5 January 2021(2021-01-05) (aged 83) Lisbon
Nationality	Portuguese
Known for	Sculptor

João Cutileiro OSE (26 June 1937 – 5 January 2021) was a Portuguese sculptor. He is responsible for a number of controversial^[why?] female nudes in marble.

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, inaugurated in 1973, in Lagos, in the Algarve. 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

Statue of Sancho I of Portugal facing the Castelo de Torres Novas in Torres Novas, 2007
Statue of Sebastian of Portugal in Lagos, Algarve, 2014
Sculpture at the Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil, Algarve, 2009
Sculptures in the Lago das Tágides, Parque das Nações, Lisbon, 2016
Monument to the Carnation Revolution, in Lisbon, 2004
Statue of St John the Baptist in the Ribeira Square of Porto, 2007

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

João Cutileiro, Unikat-Galerie, Wuppertal 1976/1977^[1]^[2] and Dortmund 1980^[3]
João Cutileiro. Amantes, Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil, Portugal, 1987^[4]
João Cutileiro. Exposição antológica, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal 1990^[5]
João Cutileiro. Cavaleiros - Homenagem a Paolo Uccello, Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil, Portugal 1990^[6]
João Cutileiro no Pico, Galeria Municipal das Lajes do Pico, Azores, 2011^[7]

Participations

XV. São Paulo Art Biennial, São Paulo, 1979
2nd Congress of the international organization for sculptors in Washington, D.C., 1980
Arte Contemporânea - Colecção Marie e Volker Huber, with José de Guimarães, Antoni Tàpies, Günter Grass, Ingo Kühl, Wolf Vostell, Rainer Wölzl, Corneille among others, Convento Espírito Santo, Loulé, Portugal, 1989.^[8]

References

^ "Exposiçao de Cutileiro na Alemanha". Hellmut Wohl in Colóquio. Artes, Lisboa. 1976 – via Gulbenkian Art Library, Lisbon.
^ "The sculpture of João Cutileiro". Hellmut Wohl in Colóquio. Artes, Lisboa. 1978 – via Gulbenkian Art Library, Lisbon.
^ "João Cutileiro. Skulpturen und Mosaike". Dortmund Kirchhörde. Unikat-Galerie. 1980 – via Gulbenkian Art Library, Lisbon.
^ João Cutileiro. Amantes. Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil (Portugal). 1987. OCLC 1074908151 – via WorldCat.
^ João Cutileiro. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal). 1990. OCLC 959126144 – via WorldCat.
^ João Cutileiro. Cavaleiros - Homenagem a Paolo Uccello. Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil. 1990. OCLC 959108786 – via WorldCat.
^ "Exposição de João Cutileiro no Pico". AZORESdigital (in Portuguese). 26 December 2006. Archived from the original on 4 September 2011.
^ "Arte Contemporânea - Colecção Marie e Volker Huber". Convento Espírito Santo, Loulé. 1989 – via Gulbenkian Art Library, Lisbon.