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Ana Jotta
Portuguese artist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ana Jotta (born 1946) is a Portuguese artist.
Early life
Ana Jotta was born in 1946 in Lisbon.[2] She studied art at ESBAL – Escola de Belas Artes de Lisboa (Lisbon School of Fine Arts) and at La Cambre in Brussels.[3] From 1976 to 1979 Jotta was an actress and a decorator for cinema and theatre. She became more focused on visual arts since the 1980s.[4]
Career
Jotta explores all artistic fields: painting, sculpture, installation, sound, photography. She also works with craft techniques like sewing, embroidery and pottery.[5] Her projects are extremely varied, she invents new and unexpected forms for each of her exhibitions. In 2018, she co-curated with Ricardo Valentim "from A to C",[6] an exhibition of works by Al Cartio and Constance Ruth Howes at Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.
Jotta has had two major career retrospectives: "Rua Ana Jotta"[7] at Museu Serralves (Porto, 2005)[8] and "A Conclusão da Precedente" at Culturgest (Lisbon, 2014).[9]
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