miguel soares

Art Basel Miami
Galeria Graça Brandão

December 2 > 5, 2004
Miami, Florida, USA

Criar um lugar – intervenção pública de arte contemporânea
curated by Maria Fátima Lambert

November, 2004
Estação de S. Bento
Oporto, Portugal

PIUFF – Paris International Underground Film Festival
curated by Marion Naccache

October 2004
Studio L’Ermitage
Paris, France

Horizont(e) (1984-2004) – 20 Anos da Galeria Luís Serpa

October 2004
Cordoaria Nacional
Lisbon, Portugal

exhibited works: SpaceJunk beta 1.0

September 2004
LUXE Gallery project Room, New York

list of works
H2O (3D animation) (projected)
H2O 6 prints, 50×70cm each.

For Immediate Release:

Opening reception for both Rick Levinson and Miguel Soares
Monday, 20th September 6 – 8, 2004 – hope to see you there!

Project Room – MIGUEL SOARES – H2O

LUXE Gallery,
24 W. 57th Street # 503
New York, NY 10019
September 20th – October 30th
Opening reception: Monday, September 20th, 6- 8.

In the Project Room, Luxe Gallery is happy to present new photographs and video work by Miguel Soares.
Based in Lisbon, Soares is one of the leading digital artists of the new generation in Portugal.
In the 90’s, he developed work that ranged from photography, installation to video and sound, and in 2000, he turned to the exploration of 3D animation software which became his main tool of expression. He also joined the largest Portuguese Quake clan, as part of the international Internet gaming community.

Under his alter ego “Migso”, Soares composes electronic music which he integrates in his 3D animations and releases as audio CD’s. Many of his videos are made for -and in collaboration with- music groups like Negativland (2003), Sack & Blumm (2000) and Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta (2001). With the San Francisco Bay Area group, “Negativland,” known for its struggle against restrictive copyright laws in the 90’s, Soares created “Time Zones” – where he investigates the use of media as a vehicle for psychological warfare, and of
computers to control the “imperfections” of mankind.

Soares’ photographs featured in Luxe’s Project Space comment on mankind’s relationship to the surrounding environment and the use / misuse of technology.
“H2O” is his most recent 3D animation: a humorous reportage both distant and ironic view of man-made debris that end up underwater. Are fish adapting themselves to these alien objects?

In 2001, Soares was invited to participate in “Situation Zero: Recent Art from Portugal” at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. Recent exhibitions include: Galeria Graca Brandao, Oporto (Portugal); Location One, New York; Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris (France); The Stenersen Museum, Oslo (Norway).

Concurrent to this exhibition is Rick Levinson’s Acts of Faith in the main gallery.

Offshore, Festival Internacional de Multimédia e Arte Digital
curated by Pedro Santos

September, 2004
Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Funchal
Madeira, Portugal

Proximidades e Acessos: Obras da colecção Ivo Martins
curated by Miguel Wandschneider

July 10 >  October 10, 2004
Culturgest
Oporto, Portugal

exhibited works:

• untitled (VR Trooper)
• GT
• SpaceJunk beta 1.0
• Expecting to Fly

Re-Location – Shake the Limits
curated by Maria Rus Bojan

June 05 > July 25, 2004
Muzeul National de Arta Contemporana
Bucharest, Romania

exhibited works: SpaceJunk 3D animation and prints

related links: Re-Location at MNAC.ro

work shown:
H2O (3D animation)

Location One – Artists in Residence – New Work 2004

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 27, 2004, 6-8 PM

Alexandra do Carmo
Koken Ergun
Vincent Lamouroux
Federico Muelas
Hsiao Sheng Chien
Miguel Soares
Koki Tanaka
Mark Themann

May 27 – June 30, 2004
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 12-6 pm

LOCATION ONE
26 Greene Street
NYC 10013
http://location1.org
212 334 33 47

MACO: Mexico Arte Contemporâneo
Galeria Graça Brandão

May 12 > 16, 2004
Centro de Negocios y Comercio de la Ciudad de Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico

07′09”
2004,
audio: “saliut.retriever” by migso, 2004

made during a residency at Location One, New York, 2003/2004.

“H2O” is a humorous reportage both distant and ironic chronological view of man-made debris that end up underwater.
Are fish adapting themselves to these alien objects?”
Nathalie Angles, Location One

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H2O stills

H2O (prints)

untitled (easter)

untitled (saucer1)

untitled (chair04)

untitled (bomb)

untitled (dodge)

untitled (sneakers)

untitled (tir02)

untitled (keyboard02)

untitled (cell02)

30 Artists Under 40
Presidência da Républica Portuguesa
curated by Pedro Portugal

February 05 > March 03, 2004
The Stenersen Museum
Oslo, Norway

exhibited works: SpaceJunk beta 1.0