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João Leonardo

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About Me

Im a portuguese artist, represented by the Galery 111, currently based in Malmö, Sweden. I study Art History, at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Social Sciences and Humanities Faculty, in Lisbon, Portugal, and Graphic Design at the Billy Blue, School of Graphic Arts, in Sydney, Australia. In 2002 I start the Independent Study Programe of Maumaus - School of Visual Arts, back in Lisbon. In 2005 I was nominated and winner of the EDP-Prize, an important national award for a new contemporary artist. I just moved to Sweeden in March 2007, and was accepted in the Master Programme of Fine Arts at the Malmö Art Academy, Lund University, so here its were I am now!


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My Interests

Art, Music, Photography, Cinema, Dance, Performance, Nature, Spirituality, Philosophy, Cooking and Travelling.

Music:

I LOVE music, so here is just a random selection, old and new: Trentemoller, Moby, Laurant Garnier, Le Chic, Ellen Alien, Fisherspooner, Sweet Light, The Knife, Depeche Mode, David Bowie, The Cure, The Smiths, Death in Vegas, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Pixies, Suede, Danny Tenaglia, Björk, Massive Attack, Traffik, Talk Talk, Duran Duran, A-Ha, Air, Daft Punk, Brian Eno, Brian Ferry & Roxy Music, Chemical Brothers, Faithless, Eurythmics, Infected Mushroom, Madonna, Portishead, Talvin Singh, Underworld, U2...

Movies:

David Lynch. Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, David Cronemberg and Pedro Almodovar.

Television:

The Simpsons. Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World, Twin Peaks, Six Feet Under, Absolutly Fabulous and all kinds of cooking shows - favorite of all times is Two Fat Ladies!

Books:

Marguerite Duras. Milan Kundera, Aldous Huxley, Herman Hesse, Albert Camus, José Saramago, António Lobo Antunes, Brett Easton Ellis, Frank Ronan, Raymond Carver, Jostein Gaardner, Marguerite Yourcenar, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Yukio Mishima and José Leonardo - my old brother!

Heroes:

Mahatma Gandhi, Søren Kierkegaard, Fernando Pessoa, Marcel Duchamp, Albert Einstein, Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol.

My Blog

please pay attention please

this tittle is borrowed from a book of interviews with the great american artist called bruce nauman.how do we pay attention to attention? how do we watch ourselfs watching ourselfs? or listen to our ...
Posted by João Leonardo on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 05:44:00 PST

Birth

last night my new, and first, niece was born - she came into our world a month earlier, i gess its time to come out for her!her name is CLARA - my brother josé and her wife luciana, were undecided abo...
Posted by João Leonardo on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:47:00 PST

Inspiration

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Posted by João Leonardo on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:12:00 PST

Hoppe :-)

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Posted by João Leonardo on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:31:00 PST

Restart Smoking

"It is a great thing to know our vices."Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de l...
Posted by João Leonardo on Wed, 02 May 2007 07:48:00 PST

Quit Smoking

i had my last cigarrete last saturday april 21 at 12h00. this means that today it has been 7 days without nicotine in my body, and its so weird and good feling at same time, because it feels like ther...
Posted by João Leonardo on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:36:00 PST