miguel soares

Atlas – Colección de Ilustraciones La Casa del Futuro
curated by MacDiego

Sevilha (Spain). Frankfurt (Germany). Milano (Italy). Lisbon – Standard Eléctrica (Portugal).

catalogue ISBN 84-605-81 38-1

Book cover for Fernando Guerreiro’s Outono.
Black Son Editores, July 1998.

Book cover for Rita Taborda Duarte’s Poética Breve.
Black Son Editores, July 1998.

1998
40×40x15cm
duratrans on lightbox

For the Flashback exhibition, comemorating the 25th aniversary of the art school where I studied
photography in, I composed this image from 5 diferent layers:
Layer 1- Dog
Layer 2- Monorail
Layer 3- Hotel
Layer 4- Mount Fuji
Layer 5- a 3D plane
Few people can survive as contemporary artists in Portugal. Lots of artists work “like dogs” (we use
this expression) without any good results. Some of them have to escape (”fugir” in portuguese), emigrating.

1998
5 images, 30×40cm each
Duratrans on aluminium lightboxes

presented at the ARCO’98 Heaven’s Gate Project Room

untitled (arrival), and untitled (mosquito)
2 images on lightboxes, 1997
Duratrans on lightbox, 30×40x16 cm each

Bíblia #3
May, 1997
cover, graphic design, some images inside

6 images, Duratrans on lightboxes, 50×70 cm

made for Miguel Soares 1996 solo exhibition

untitled (miniland2)

untitled (pool)

untitled (hogan)

untitled (dolphin)

untitled (vrt)

untitled (snow)

view

70 cm wide each

made for Companhia de Dança de Lisboa magazine.

Illustration for Vértice magazine. Text by Paulo Varela Gomes.
n.64, Jan/Feb, 1995.

1994
50×25x20 cm
metal boxes, image on duratrans, light, wheels, plexyglas.

related works: untitled (cabinets), 1993

made for: Qualquer Semelhança é Inevitável, Loja da Atalaia, Lisbon

Miguel Soares 1994 – solo exhibition

March 24 > April 14, 1994
Galeria Monumental
Lisbon, Portugal

untitled (UFO over beach)
duratrans, light, wood, wheels

untitled (UFO over L.A.) and view of the first room
duratrans, light, wood, wheels

untitled (UFO over snow)
duratrans, light, wood, wheels, ventilation fan

untitled (UFO over lake)
duratrans, light, wood, wheels

untitled (UFO over national park)
duratrans, light, wood, wheels

views of the second room

untitled (UFO over caribbean)
duratrans, light, wood, wheels

untitled (UFO over rio)
duratrans, light, wood, wheels

untitled (UFO over niagara)
duratrans, light, wood, wheels

untitled (UFO 4)
duratrans, light, wood, wheels

untitled (UFO over rio) detail
duratrans, light, wood, wheels

O que é nacional é bom
curated by Pedro Cabral Santo

May 27 > June 12, 1993
Forum Prior do Crato
Lisbon, Portugal

exhibited works: untitled (tropa, fado e vinho), 70×130 cm

MS AE HF AM
curated by Miguel Soares

March 04 > April 04, 1993
Galeria Monumental
Lisbon, Portugal

exhibition views, Miguel Soares
images, lamps, metal boxes, wheels, plexyglas, formica, etc

This was a group exhibition I organized in order to fill an empty space in the gallery program.
with: Miguel Soares (images, metal objects), Americo Marcelino (painting), Alexandre Estrela (painting) and Heitor Fonseca (painting).

invitation front/back

Illustration for Vértice magazine. Text by Carlos Leite.
n.50, Sep/Oct, 1992.

Miguel Soares 1992
solo exhibition

February 27 > March 22, 1992
Galeria Monumental
Lisbon, Portugal

room 1 view

untitled (heliglider)

untitled (nucleon)

untitled (vtol)

untitled (arts)

untitled (squares)

room 2 view

untitled (ufo)

untitled (blue pair)

untitled (taurus)

t shirt

Miguel Soares 1991
(1st solo exhibition)

May 16 > Jun 04, 1991
Galeria Monumental, Lisbon

untitled (pilot), 120×90 cm

untitled (spok) 80×490 cm

untitled (target) 110×120 cm

room 2, view 1

untitled (tahiti plage) 70×180 cm

room2, view 2

untitled (esposende) 150×100 cm

untitled (portugueses), 16 frames, 30×40 cm each
This work appears as a comment on Leonel Moura’s Portugal series, where the artist ellects already famous personalities of the portuguese history and culture like Amália Rodrigues, and Fernando Pessoa, placing the word “Portugal” (white on a black rectangle) over the eyes or mouth of each personality’s picture.
Portugueses shows eleven black and white faces of unknown portuguese people of all ages. I printed the images in my b/w photo lab at home, out of more than thousand glass negatives I had found buried on an open field near a prision in Lisbon in 1987. They document portuguese prisioners ranging from the1910’s to the 1940’s.
The word portugueses (portuguese in english) was placed in day-glo stickers, one word in each person’s forehead.

t-shirt ms91

1991, 40×90cm
Artstrike magazine exhibition
Galeria da Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa

“1990″
Miguel Mendonça
João Fonte Santa
Pedro Cabral Santo
Rui Silvares
Miguel Soares

Cisterna da Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal

exhibited works: untitled (cambio style cabaret)

untitled (cambio style cabaret), 1990
40×180cm