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Mario Ferreira
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INTRODUCTION
Mario
Ferreira da Silva was born and lives in Vila Nova de
Gaia, Portugal. He Got a degree as a technical ceramist
in Portugal. Then, as a scholar of the Gulbenkian
Foundation, he went to Italy, where he attended the
Institute of Ceramic Art Gaetano Bellardini, in Faenza,
and a course of Sculpture, in Perugia. In study trips,
he travelled across Switzerland, Germany, England,
France, Italy, Holland and Spain. In 1971, by invitation
of the Portuguese government makes and supervises the
placement of 80 panels of ceramic for the John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in
Washington DC, USA. He is titular member of the
International Academy of Ceramics-advisory organ of
WNESCO, in Geneva.
He is
included in New Directions in Ceramics, published in
England (by initiative of the International Center of
Ceramics of Rome), in L’art De La Céramique
Aujourd’hui Dans Le Monde, of the Rumanian editions
Meridiane (by initiative of the Union of the Plastic
Arts of the Socialist Republic of Romania), in Maestri
Della Ceramica Modema, editions of 1984 and 1985, and in
The Ceramic In Vila Nova De Gaia, Portugal 1999.
From 1978
to 1980, he taught Ceramics in the Art School, Soares
dos Reis, in Porto. Since 1994 he has been teaching in
the University School of Art in Coimbra——EUAC——and
he is responsible for the degree of ceramics.
His works
can be seen in several national and foreign museums,
namely in the Art Collection of the Portuguese Ministry
of Culture, Amadeo de Souza Cardoso Museum-Amarante;
Diogo de Macedo Gallery and Municipal Library of Vila
Nova de Gaia; International Museum of Ceramics in
Faenza-Italy; Everson Museum of Art, New; York, USA, as
well as in numerous private4collections in Europe,
Africa, Asia and America. He has made several murals for
public and private entities, namely, in 1998, the
conception and execution of a 45 meters long Ceramic
Mural, in relief, for the new railway station of
Ermesinde, Porto (Portugal) and in 1999/2000 the
conception and execution of a great Ceramic Mural (about
200 square meters) in relief, for the wall of the main
altar of Bragan_a’s new Cathedral and in 2001/2002 a
ceramic sculpture of great dimensions for the shrine of
the same cathedral.
In 1998, he
participated, as guest, in the 1st International
Congress of Ceramists in Talavera de la Reina, Spain.
In 1989, he
participated, with the Italian ceramists Nino Caruso and
Pompeo Pianazola, in the seminar “Ceramics in the
Architecture” in Cencal, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.
In 1990, he
promoted, coordinated and carried out the “1st
International Ceramics Seminar
——Gaia
90” under the theme “Earth / Fire-Gaia as a Ceramic
Center”, Portugal. In 1998, he participated, as guest,
in the 1st International Congress “Cottaterra-Arte
Ceramica dalla tradizione all’innovazione”, in Perugia,
Italy.
In 1998, he
participated, as guest, in the 1st International
Congress “Cottaterra·Arte Ceramica dalla tradizione
all’innovazione”, in Perugia, Italy.
In 2001 /
2002, he participated with Nino Caruso, in the
conception and execution of a monumental ceramic
sculpture, in modular typology, allusive to the twenty
centuries of history of the town of Coimbra, Portugal.
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