ISEG's Cultural Commission is promoting a new exhibition in the Quelhas Cloisters as part of ISEG's 111th Anniversary, which opens on September 29 at 18:30.
This is a retrospective exhibition by the artist and former ISEG student Rui Paiva, entitled “Graphologies of a time".
The 38 works present, diverse in their techniques and expressions, allow us to see Painting as Cantata for a mandala, Drawing, Concept pieces (The War and the airport) from everyday recycling) Photography (Dialogues) and Installation (The Kings of In.convenience).
The exhibition can be visited between 10:00 and 23:00 from September 30 to November 10.
Acrylic on canvas
150×120 cm
Biography
As well as being an artist, Rui Paiva is an economist, writer and researcher in International Relations, with a focus on Asia, particularly China.
He was born in Maputo, where he attended high school and began his economics degree. He graduated from ISEG in 1977, where he was a monitor and taught for a few years, after which he moved to Macau.
He worked for 13 years in the Macau government, serving as Head of Economic Services, Director of the Pension Fund, member of the Supervisory Committee of the Monetary and Exchange Authority of Macau and Chief of Staff of the S.A. for Economy, Finance and Tourism. In banking in Macau, he was number two at BPA, and in Hong Kong, Chief Representative of the CGD/BNU Group.
He began his artistic career with annual exhibitions from the 1990s onwards, taking part in more than a hundred solo and group shows. Highlights include solo shows in Macau, Hong Kong and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and group shows in Japan, Malaysia, Macau, Hong Kong, Singapore, and many in Portugal.
In 2000, he took over the Artistic Heritage Department at BCP for 16 years and was the curator of one of the most important Portuguese collections in the banking sector, the result of the merger of collections from several banks.
He was an active member of the governing bodies of the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes for 13 years, 10 of which as Chairman of the Supervisory Board and the rest as a member of the Board of Directors.
Edited the Drawing Book - Macau. He published artist's books in 2016 and 2022, White Cloud (a Book of Life named after him in Vietnam by the private portraitist of the leader Ho Chi Minh) and Porto Moniz (a watercolor and text record of a stormy night in this Madeiran town). He illustrated several books by poets and writers from Macau.