Eduardo Batarda

Eduardo Batarda (1943, Coimbra) started studying medicine in 1960, but dropped-out three years later. He studied painting at the Fine Arts Academy in Lisbon (1963-1968) and then went on to attend the Royal College of Art in London (1971-1974) with a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. This period was decisive in securing a tendency, already perceptible in his first paintings and from there on systematically present in his work, to think art, and the function, history and theory of art, within painting itself.