José Alberto Mar is an artist born in Porto, Portugal. Graduated in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto , he also attended the first year of the Master in Comparative Literature at the Faculty Fernando Pessoa, Porto.
The plastic work of José Alb...
Read more
José Alberto Mar is an artist born in Porto, Portugal. Graduated in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto , he also attended the first year of the Master in Comparative Literature at the Faculty Fernando Pessoa, Porto.
The plastic work of José Alberto Mar flow converges the past and the future in an encrypted language of feelings and ancient sciences that open to worlds beyond the visible. As if the artist, at the meeting of the signs, sought a universal language to set a world beyond the visible and narratable in the light of a spirit where all are mixed in a sacred geometry of philosophical and mystical root. In the alphabet, in which have created along his career, we recognize the nature (sun, moon, flowers), the human (face, eyes) and the ancestral forms, reinvented a calligraphy inscribed on the dumb white paper.
Throughout his career he has participated in several exhibitions of digital art, mail art and visual poetry.
José Alberto Mar also perform literary activity, publishing three books, including "The Golden Triangle", awarded in 1987 with the Prémio de Revelação de Poesia da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores.
