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João Leonardo

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The poet is a faker // Who's so good at his act // He even fakes the pain // Of pain he feels in fact. Fernando Pessoa "Autopsychography"

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  • João Leonardo

  • 35 / Male
  • Malmö, All, SE

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Interests

  • General

    Art, Music, Photography, Cinema, Dance, Performance, Nature, Spirituality, Philosophy, Cooking and Travelling.

  • Music

    I LOVE music, so here is just a random selection, old and new: Trentemoller, Moby, Laurant Garnier, Le Chic, Ellen Alien, Fisherspooner, M83, Sweet Light, The Knife, Depeche Mode, David Bowie, The Cure, The Smiths, Death in Vegas, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Pixies, Suede, Danny Tenaglia, Björk, Massive Attack, Morrissey, Traffik, Talk Talk, Duran Duran, A-Ha, Abba, Air, Daft Punk, Brian Eno, Brian Ferry & Roxy Music, Chemical Brothers, Faithless, Eurythmics, Garbage, Infected Mushroom, Madonna, Peter Gabriel, Portishead, Prodigy, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Talvin Singh, Underworld, U2... my favorite genre in electronic music is progressive house and trance, so very often im tuned in Pure.Fm - Progressive

  • Movies

    David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, David Cronemberg, Pedro Almodovar, Gaspar Noé, Lars von Trier.

  • Television

    The Simpsons and Family Guy, Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World, Twin Peaks, Six Feet Under, True Blood, Dexter, Absolutly Fabulous and all kinds of cooking shows - favorite of all times is Two Fat Ladies!

  • Books

    Marguerite Duras, Milan Kundera, Aldous Huxley, Herman Hesse, Albert Camus, José Saramago, António Lobo Antunes, Brett Easton Ellis, Frank Ronan, Raymond Carver, Jostein Gaardner, Marguerite Yourcenar, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Yukio Mishima and José Leonardo - my old brother!

Details

  • Status: Single
  • Here for: Networking, Friends
  • Hometown: Odemira, Portugal
  • Orientation: Gay
  • Zodiac Sign: Libra
  • Occupation: Artist

Schools

Networking

  • Artist photographer interested in documentary and portraiture - each person of the world has a peculiar, special beauty that I love to capture with the camera.

  • I´ve been using video as a main medium in my artistic output since 2003, as performer and director. My work as been screened in film and video-art festivals in Europe, USA and Canada.

Companies

  • MoreHuman

    • Sydney, New South Wales AU
    • Graphic Designer
    2000-2002

  • Today Comunicação

    • Lisbon, PT
    • Senior Designer
    2000-2002

  • Galeria 111

    • Lisbon & Oporto, PT
    • Resident Artist
    Since 2006

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About me:

Im a Portuguese artist currently based in Malmö, Sweden. I study Art History, at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Social Sciences and Humanities Faculty, in Lisbon, Portugal, and Graphic Design at the Billy Blue, School of Graphic Arts, in Sydney, Australia. Back in Lisbon, in 2002 I start the Independent Study Programe at Maumaus - School of Visual Arts. In 2005 I was awarded with the EDP-Prize. I moved to Sweeden in March 2007, and just completed a Master Degree in Fine Arts at the Malmö Art Academy, Lund University.

See my webpage if you like to know more about my work.
www.joaoleonardo.com

Visit my gallery, Galeria 111 Lisbon / Oporto if you like to buy some art.
www.111.pt

Thank you :-)

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