Reticulo endocromático - Pintura de amamede

amamede (António José Mamede de Albuquerque) was born in Cape Verde in 1943. Formerly of dual nationality, in 1974 he chose Portuguese nationality.

A teacher in higher education with a PhD in Medicine, he has been devoted to Painting since 1975.

His work was exhibited for the first time at the “Exposição Artistas de Coimbra” [Coimbra Artists Exhibition] organised in 1988 by the XI Congresso Nacional de Ortopedia [XI National Orthopedics Congress]. An associate of the Movimento Artístico de Coimbra [Coimbra Artistic Movement] from 1988, in 1994 he began collaborating in the teaching of Artistic Anatomy to students of ARCA-ETAC.

He was Associate Professor at the Coimbra University College of Arts, where he taught Theoretical Anatomy (1st and 2nd year of the various licentiate’s degrees) until 2008.

He is represented in a number of private collections, mainly belonging to collectors in the Portuguese and Brazilian university environment.

 ^{in Myths of Art - an anthology of contemporary Portuguese painters - Chiado Editora 2009}

Hello dear Friend of Art:

 It is my pleasure to announce our Fiarte/Arteuropa 

 If you are interested to participate please have a look at the conditionsand send your works. 

Any comments, questions and suggestions are welcome! 

With my best wishes from Coimbra. 

Yours

            Mamede Albuquerque

www.fiarte-2011.com