Biography

António Olaio, plastic artist, Assistant Professor by definitive appointment at the Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra. Director of the College of Arts of the University of Coimbra. Solo exhibitions in Coimbra, Lisbon, Porto, Guimarães, Mallorca, New York, Berlin, Frankfurt. As a researcher, he explores the conceptual potentials of art as an object and instrument of reflection, namely, in the relations between the individual and the space, between the plastic experience and architecture. Among his publications special mention should be made to the books "I think differently, now that I can paint", which unravels the latitude of his conceptual intervention as a plastic artist, and "Ser um indivíduo chez Marcel Duchamp" which, through this artist's work, underlines the work of art as a production of thinking. http://antonioolaio.com/