Contemporary creation in Porto is directly linked to the intense economical, commercial and industrial activity that is characteristic of the “Northern Capital.” In the field of fashion, the 1980s saw the rise of a new generation of stylists, with the thrust of two schools: CITEM-Centro Internacional de Técnicas de Moda (Fashion Techniques International Centre) and CITEX-Centro de Formação Profissional da Indústria Têxtil (Textile Industry Professional Education Centre), and a direct relationship with the field’s industry, traditionally concentrated in the North of Portugal. Some of the most significant stylists are Luis Buchinho, Nuno Eusébio, Nuno Gama, Júlio Torcato, Maria Gambina, Olga Rêgo, Miguel Vieira.
The most prominent names in the field of graphic creation during the 1980s were João Machado and João Nunes. Born in 1942, João Machado began to study sculpture in the Porto’s Escola de Belas-Artes, before opting for design and graphic creation. Some of his creations were present in two books published by ASA editions (in 1982 and 1988). The books demonstrate the extreme efficiency of a graphic language that uses Pop Art symbols and elements and joins text and image in a poetical synthesis of reality. Also graduated in graphic design by the Porto’s Escola de Belas-Artes, João Nunes organised his activity in a close relationship with photography and studio work. Honoured with the GrafiPorto Award in 1986, his creation is inspired by a neo-baroque that privileges theatricality, the contrast between signs, the opposition abstract/symbolic. Contributor of several foreign magazines, João Nunes participated in 1987 in a collective exhibition in Nagoya (Japan), before showing in Porto, in 1988, a retrospective of his work, titled “Nitidez”, in Cooperativa Árvore.
Miguel Vieira was born in S. João da Madeira, in 1966, and started working as a Fashion designer in 1998. He has been showing his private collections since 1991.
Rua Alexandre Herculano, 308
3700 São João da Madeira
Paulo Cravo was born in 1975 in Paris and Nuno Baltazar was born in 1976 in Lisbon. They met at the 12th course of CITEX and began working as a team in 1997. In 1999 they created a company and began commercialising their work. Presently, they keep seven shops around the country.
Rua da Meditação, 48, 3º
4150-487 Porto
226 065 081 | 226 054 982
cravo.baltazar@mail.telepac.pt
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