The sale of contemporary African art on February 14, 2020 by PIASA in partnership with the auction house ASPIRE in Cape Town, South Africa will honour the the painter Manuel Figueira.
Manuel Figueira was born in 1938, in the island of São Vicente, Cape-Verde. He lived in Portugal between 1960 and 1974 when he was the first Cape Verdean to attend the Fine Arts Academy in Lisbon. Having returned to his country in 1975, accompanied by his wife, Luisa Queirós, also a visual artist, to work on the regeneration of popular culture at this archipelago. Manuel Figueira founded, with other art lovers, the Cooperative Resistance in 1976. Through hard work of research and action, he has contributed to the current cultural setting of Cape Verde, promoting the regeneration of popular arts and ancient weaving techniques.
From January 1978 to March 1989 he was Director of the National Craft Centre, where he guided the project artistically, designing and performing his works, using the techniques of weaving traditional tapestry and dyeing. Since 1963 he has exhibited in group and solo shows in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Spain, France, USA, Portugal and of course Cape Verde. His first retrospective exhibition Infinite Visions was organised in 2005 by Perve Galeria in Portugal.
Nuno Espinho da Silva, Perve Galeria
Manuel Figueira (born in 1938 in Cape Verde)
Pesando o peixe, 1978 (lot 176)
gouache on paper
24 x 22 cm
Estimation : 2000 / 3150 €
