António Palolo

António Palolo was born in Évora in 1946. A self-taught artist, he held his first exhibition in 1964 at Galeria 111 in Lisbon. In 1968, he participated in the "Exposição de Arte Portuguesa" (Exhibition of Portuguese Art) at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, which toured Madrid, Paris, and Brussels. He exhibited in several museums abroad, and his major retrospective took place at the Centro de Arte Moderna of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 1995. A key figure in the history of Portuguese art, he influenced successive artistic movements from the beginning of his career in the mid-1960s. Known primarily for his work in painting and drawing, little is known about his cinematographic experiments between 1969 and 1978, as well as his video works created between 1977 and the early 1980s. António Palolo is represented in significant public and private collections, as well as in major museums. He passed away in 2000.