Diogo Pimentão

Diogo Pimentão (Lisbon, 1973) lives and works in London. He studied art at Ar.Co., Lisbon; the Sculpture Seminar, Gotland, and the Centro Internacional de Escultura Pêro Pinheiro in Portugal. The practice of drawing, especially solid graphite, is the central axis of his work: he conceives it as a form of contact between a matter and a support through a repetitive gesture, sometimes blind or protocolary. His research associates the random with a mastered technique, through the trail and the marks, the line or the trace. The sheet can be folded, buried in supports, or placed on the ground so as to acquire movement.

Among his most salient solo exhibitions are those held in the FRAC Normandie (France), Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), Museu de Arte Contemporânea – Coleção António Cachola, Elvas Rios Foundation (Lisbon), Kentkler International Drawing Space (Brooklyn), as well as in international galleries such as and Cristina Guerra in Lisbon. His work has featured in group exhibitions, among them: the Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou (Paris), Calouste Goulbenkian Museum (Lisbon), Fundaçao Serralves (Porto), Centre d’Art La Panacée (Montpellier), CAPC, (Bordeaux).

His work is present in European art centres and institutions and in important private collections both in Europe and in the United States, including the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (Paris), Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou (Paris), Pomeranz Collection (Vienna), Fondation CAB, Brussels, BE , Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon PT, FRAC Normandie, Rouen, FR ,Collection Lambert (Avignon), European Central Bank, Fundaçao Serralves (Porto), Museu de Arte Contemporânea – Colecção António Cachola, Elvas Rios Foundation (Lisbon), Fundaçao EDP (Lisbon), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin), MONA, Museum of Old and New Art (Australia).