Ana Malta
Lisboa, Portugal
3 Works exhibited on Kooness
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Works by Ana Malta
Ana Malta's work focuses, above all, on the use of colour and expression. She works with everyday themes in an expressive combination of brushstroke and line. Her work is often socially critical, and she uses symbols, images, phrases and words, which appear among the exaltation of the work, as a mean of critic. She brings together various elements in vertiginous compositions that tell a story that is usually, not only familiar, but also contemporary.
Most of his paintings are marked by a great mixture of colour, expression and impulse, especially on large format canvases. Her work is energetic and free, creating patterns built on symbols present in the collective memory, which dignifies them. He presents us with a new world of saturated shapes, which, although hallucinatory, are above all joyful and lively.
Ana Malta (Lisbon, 1996), visual artist, lives and works in Lisbon.
She studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and has a master's degree in Creative Industries Management from UCP-Porto. She worked for three years as an assistant in the production, communication and promotion department of the Carpintarias de São Lázaro Cultural Centre, the Belo-Galsterer Gallery, Miradouro de Baixo and the Lisboa à Prova Gastronomic Competition.
Her work is developed through the study of colour, patterns, composition and scratching materials, vehicles of her plastic and visual unconscious. It's a work where restlessness seeks aesthetics and where dialogue is based on transforming "error" into opportunity.
The artist is part of the artistic collective VÊS.TRÊS, was one of the 10 finalists for the "Prémio A Arte Chegou ao Colombo" in 2021 and was the winner of the "Prémio José Mendonça - Artes Visuais | Betar" in 2023. The artist also did a residency in Guarda in 2023 and has another planned in New York in 2024.
In 2023 she took part in the Estampa Madrid contemporary art fair, represented by Maria Porto Gallery. She has exhibitions at Galeria São Mamede, Museu Colecção Berardo, Museu Municipal de Espinho, Centro Multimeios de Espinho, Casa do Montado, Passevite, Casa da Cultura de Paredes, Faculdade de Belas-Artes UL, Galeria LiR, LisbonWeek, LxLapa, Oficinas de Aljustrel, Atmosfera m, Egeu, Espaço Mercês, art shows at Carpintarias de São Lázaro and IFEMA Madrid, among others.