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Jorge Queiroz is the winner of the Biggest Annual ...

Jorge Queiroz is the winner of the Biggest Annual Art Prize in Portugal

Sovereign Portuguese Art Prize winner Jorge Queiroz


The Sovereign Portuguese Art Prize celebrates the practices of leading contemporary artists living in Portugal and its diaspora

Associação SAF announced Portuguese artist Jorge Queiroz as the winner of the 2022 Sovereign Portuguese Art Prize and recipient of €25,000 for his work ‘Duende’. This is the inaugural edition of the Prize, which celebrates the practices of leading contemporary artists living in Portugal, and its diaspora.

Winner Jorge Queiroz is an artist primarily concerned with painting. Of ‘Duende’, Jorge commented: “In my work, impulses and reasons lead to basic or original polarity: sense and nonsense, logic and the illogical, the conscious and the unconscious, full, empty, abstract and figurative, narrative and fragment.

“It was wonderful and a very big surprise to have won the 2022 Sovereign Portuguese Art Prize. I am very happy. The purpose of both of this Prize and the Students Prize is noble and highly commended.”

Judge Joana Vasconcelos said: “Jorge is an amazing artist. I had the privilege of being his colleague in school and also in a gallery in France. His work surprises me every time I see it.”

Joana Vasconcelos (Artist) and Maura Marvão (Head of Phillips in Portugal and Spain), photo by Kenton Thatcher

Fellow Judge Tim Marlow added: “It is great to see an artist with an established reputation, hugely respected, who is still able to produce work that is fresh, questioning and surprising.”

Tim Marlow (Chief Executive and Director, Design – Museum, London) and Philippe Vergne (Director of Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto), Photo by Sebastian Nevols

Nineteen independent arts professionals comprising curators, collectors and academics nominated artists to enter the Prize and 214 entries were received. Thirty artists were then shortlisted by an esteemed judging panel, including artists Ai Weiwei and Joana Vasconcelos; Vicente Todolí, Founding Director of Serralves Contemporary Art Museum; David Elliott, freelance writer, curator and former Founding Director of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Maura Marvão, Head of Phillips in Portugal and Spain; Phillippe Vergne, French curator and Director of the Serralves Contemporary Art Museum and Tim Marlow, Chief Executive and Director of the Design Museum, London.

Judges Ai Weiwei (Artist), David Elliott (Writer, curator and museum director) and Vicente Todolí (Artistic director of Hangar Bicocc)

The Finalists’ Exhibition tour will start at Palácio das Artes in Porto (April 13-30), before moving to Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes in Lisbon (May 27-June 18), then the Museu Berardo Estremoz (June 22-August 15), culminating in August at a venue, to be announced shortly, in the Algarve.

Visitors to the exhibitions will be invited to vote for their favourite artwork and together with online votes, the most popular artist will be awarded the Public Vote Prize of €2,000 in August.

All shortlisted artworks, except Queiroz’s, are now being sold via silent auction; reserve prices range from €1,700-€24,000. The online auction will close in early September 2022. Proceeds will be split equally between the artists and SAF, where they will be used to fund expressive arts programmes supporting children who most need it, in Portugal.

Source: Portugal Resident Newspaper

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