miguel soares

1994
40×70x200 cm
wood, wheels, tape, Cuprinol Transcolor
made for: Independent Worm Saloon, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon

When you put two stripes of tape along one side of an old car it becomes a racing car. Usually the car is a Toyota or Datsun from the seventies. I was interested in this cheap and highly aesthetic operation. I decided to try it on a wood monolith, and suddenly wheels appeared.
Racing was made for the Independent Worm Saloon exhibition, in 1994. Since this exhibition was about painting,the wood was previously painted with Cuprinol Transcolor.

III Bienal de Fotografia de Vila Franca de Xira

October 23 > November 28, 1993
Edifício da Patriarcal
Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal

exhibited works: untitled (hospital)

Real Rave

June 18 > July, 1993
Cine-Teatro da Portela de Sintra
Sintra, Portugal

exhibited works:

• untitled, 1993
• untitled (pilot inverted), 1990

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untitled, 1993

untitled (pilot inverted), 1990, 90×120cm

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

untitled (triptico), 1993
30×250cm
formica, metal boxes, plexyglas, lamps

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

Bus

Festas de Lisboa
Câmara Municipal de Lisboa

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

Arte Com Timor
Exposição/venda de solidariedade com a resistência timorense.

December 07 > 15, 1991
Palácio das Galveias
Lisbon, Portugal

II Bienal de Fotografia de Vila Franca de Xira

October 19 > December 01, 1991
Edifício da Patriarcal
Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal

exhibited works: untitled (target)
1º prémio, A Fotografia nas Artes Plásticas

Exposição de Arte Contemporânea
curated by Rui Serra

August, 1991
Castelo de Elvas
Elvas, Portugal

exhibited works: untitled (esposende)

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

Artstrike magazine exhibition
curated by Paulo Mendes, Rui serra, Pedro Pousada

June 1991
Galeria da Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal

exhibited works: untitled (two-shed jackson)

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

Faltam Nove, para 2000
curated by Pedro Cabral Santo

January 23 > February, 1991
Galeria da ESBAL
Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal

exhibited works: Portugueses

Cultura e Desenvolvimento – Encontros de Arte
Secretaria de Estado da Cultura e Clube Português de Artes e Ideias

November > December 1990
Teatro da Trindade
Lisbon, Portugal

exhibited works: portugueses

Cultura e Desenvolvimento – Encontros de Arte
Secretaria de Estado da Cultura e Clube Português de Artes e Ideias

October 1990
Círculo de Artes Plásticas
Coimbra, Portugal

exhibited works: untitled (portugueses)

untitled (portugueses), 120×90cm, 1990

“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

Uma (Lis)boa Ideia
Concurso de Fotografia, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa

October, 1989
Padrão dos Descobrimentos
Lisbon, Portugal