Ana Magalhães

Ana Magalhães was born in 1953, in Seia, Portugal. Graduated in History of Art, she works in oil on canvas, presenting her paintings for the first time in a collective exhibition in Viseu, Portugal (“4 Montras” Art Gallery, 2003). From then on, she participated in exhibitions in Portugal and abroad, including Madrid, Vienna, Paris, Gembloux, S.Paulo, Miami, Firenze, receiving several prizes for the artistic value of her work. Her work is a detailed autobiography. Getting inspiration from life, classical music and Fernando Pessoa’s poetry, the artist communicates feelings, emotions and desires, using an expressionist style, ranging harmoniously from figuration to abstractionism. Motivated by a powerful inner energy, the artist often uses exaggerated distortions by exploiting the opposition of warm and cold tones in a desperate eagerness to capture a snapshot of her visual and emotional perceptions or else blank spaces to allow the colours to “breathe” and achieve their full visual potential.

EXPOSICIÓN
Galeria 4Montras- Viseu – Portugal - Agosto 2003 (exposição colectiva);
Exposição Internacional “Casa de Cantábria”, Madrid – de 4 a 27 de Outubro…