José de Guimarães

José Maria Fernandes Marques (1939, Guimarães) moved to Lisbon in 1958, where he studied painting and drawing with Teresa de Sousa and Gil Teixeira Lopes. He later studied engraving at the Sociedade Cooperativa de Gravadores Portugueses, meeting artists like Hogan, Júlio Pomar, and Almada Negreiros. In 1961, he moved to Paris, where he was influenced by Fauvism, and adopted the pseudonym José de Guimarães. He traveled to Italy and Munich, where he encountered the works of Michelangelo, Morandi, Giorgio de Chirico, and the Bauhaus movement. In 1967, he served in Angola, where he developed an interest in African art and collage. After returning to Portugal in 1974, he began sculpting in 1980 and continued to explore new artistic realities, influenced by his travels to Japan, China, Mexico, and Tunisia.