João Cutileiro

João Cutileiro (26 June 1937 – 5 January 2021) was a Portuguese sculptor. He is responsible for a number of controversial female nudes in marble.

Life

Cutileiro was born and died in Lisbon. He was the creator of several pieces of modern public sculpture, most famous being his statue of Sebastian of Portugal, inaugurated in 1973, in Lagos, in the Algarve. His work marks the end of the academic historical sculpture of the Estado Novo dictatorship and the beginning of a new era of contemporaneity in the Portuguese public sculpture.

Works

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions João Cutileiro, Unikat-Galerie, Wuppertal 1976/1977 and Dortmund 1980 João Cutileiro. Amantes, Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil, Portugal, 1987 João Cutileiro. Exposição antológica, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal 1990 João Cutileiro. Cavaleiros - Homenagem a Paolo Uccello, Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil, Portugal 1990 João Cutileiro no Pico, Galeria Municipal das Lajes do Pico, Azores, 2011

Participations XV. São Paulo Art Biennial, São Paulo, 1979 2nd Congress of the international organization for sculptors in Washington, D.C., 1980 Arte Contemporânea - Colecção Marie e Volker Huber, with José de Guimarães, Antoni Tàpies, Günter Grass, Ingo Kühl, Wolf Vostell, Rainer Wölzl, Corneille among others, Convento Espírito Santo, Loulé, Portugal, 1989.