Daniel Nave

Daniel Nave was born in Belmonte, in 1955. He currently lives and works in Sintra. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in 1979, the year in which he held his first solo exhibition at the Faculty's Gallery. Between 1980 and 1983, he began his career as a professor of Visual Arts and developed works in the field of documentary and experimental cinema. At the same time, he participated in the organization of the Alternativa I Festival Internacional de Arte Viva, in Almada and organized performance meetings in the city of Coimbra. In his works, Nave explores the intimate experience intrinsic to the structures that build the world around us and are formally composed of apparently architectural elements, which appear to be wefts or ruins. His main exhibitions are Built, at Fundação D. Luís I, Centro Cultural de Cascais, in 2014, Bestiário(Deconstrução ou Conflito), at Colégio das Artes, in Coimbra and more recently Places of War at Galeria Filomena Soares, in Lisbon. In 2019, he created the sculpture A Cabral, a public artwork in Belmonte. Nave has his work represented in several collections, such as the Fundação EDP, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Museu das Artes de Sintra and Belmonte City Council.

 

 

JFB, April 2022