Eduardo Luiz

Eduardo Luiz Teles Fernandes Gomes (Braga, 1932 – Paris, 1988) received from his father, the sculptor Joaquim Fernandes Gomes, his first lessons in drawing. Later, between 1943 and 1946, he attended the Oporto Decorative Arts School, followed by the Painting course at the Oporto Fine Arts School, completed in 1952. In the following year, he received the Young Painting Award at Galeria de Março, in Lisbon, and he was one of the artists chosen to represent Portugal at the II São Paulo Biennale. In parallel to the exhibitions, that had begun in 1950, at the old Portugália Gallery in Oporto, he was interested in music and dance, producing various sets for theatre, particularly for the Oporto Experimental Theatre. In these first years of his career, he participated in several group exhibitions, such as the 10^th General Exhibition of Fine Arts (Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, 1956), 11 Portuguese Painters in Madrid (Abril Gallery, Madrid, 1957) and the Fine Arts Exhibition of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (1957). In 1958, Eduardo Luiz went to Paris with a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, where he lived the rest of his life. Five years after his arrival to the French capital, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Mouffe, and the following year, he did the illustrations for the film “La Brûlure de Mille Soleils”, by Pierre Kast and Chris Marker, which received international awards on several occasions. He also showed his work in other cities, such as Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, Washington, Macau and Brussels, and his work is represented in various museums and collections, national and international, namely at the San Francisco Erotic Art Museum and the Paris Modern Art Museum. In 1990, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation organised two anthological exhibitions of his work, one in Lisbon and another one in Paris. In 1993, he was granted the Order of the Cross of Saint James of the Sword.

 

FMV, October 2020