Eduardo Nery (Figueira da Foz, 1938 - Lisbon, 2013) joined the School of Fine Arts in Lisbon in 1956. Here he took a course in Painting and later in Architecture, which he did not complete. In 1960 he left for France to undertake an internship with Jean Lurçat, an important figure of contemporary tapestry. His career developed in a multidisciplinary practice - painting, tiles, stained glass, photography, printmaking, among others -, in which he uniquely combined the knowledge of textile art obtained in France, with a grammar similar to that of Op (Optical) Art, that is, creator of optical illusions. To achieve this effect in his painting he regularly used dégradés. During the 1960s he carried out numerous urban and architectural interventions throughout the country. Since then, his forms would become part of the space and daily life of Portuguese cities, in an authentic and original democratization of his art. Some highlights are the tile panels of the Avenida Infante Santo viaduct, the Campo Grande metro station, the viaducts of the segunda circular and the façade of the Sociedade Central de Cervejas factory. Around the same time, he began to develop object paintings by placing three-dimensional elements on his canvases. In 1971 he was among the artists invited to produce works for the café A Brasileira and, in 1973, he was one of the founding partners of Ar. Co – Center of Art and Communication of Lisbon. He held numerous individual exhibitions in Portugal with emphasis on those at the National Society of Fine Arts (between 1964 and 2003), at the National Museum of Ancient Art (1976), at Galeria 111 (1970 and 1972) and at Galeria Bucholz (1969 and 1979), having also participated in several group exhibitions. Abroad, he was represented in countries like Spain, France, Germany, Japan, Iraq, USA, Switzerland, Colombia, and China. His work is present in several public and private collections.
FMV, October 2020
