Mito Elias -- Fine Art

Artist Profile

Mito Elias is a Fine Artist.

Mito Elias

His attitude towards memory, through the Arts, stems from his personal way of being. One should say that Hamilton Elias (Mito) bases his essence on the radicalism of the elements that make him an anthropological and cultural fusion, a true "Crioulo" in what the semantics of this word have of synthesis and aesthetic recreation.

Mito was born in Cape Verde, an archipelago of the western coast of Africa, whose population is composed of Africans and Europeans and which was the first "crioulo" society on the Atlantic. All of Mito's artistic expression reflects this ancestral, ontological and visceral sense.

He does it through plastic, visual and poetic ways, overcoming frontiers stipulated by schools and trends, and creating his own style, away from the critiques' catalogues, which he calls Mare Calamus. This unique nature, subverting all forms of imposition, is evident in his expositions around the world, and among which "The Hitch-Hiker Drum Beat" stands out, a homage to the beat poet Jack Kerouac, in the city of Providence, RI, during the year 2001.

Lines, rags, garbage, luxury, writings, popular sayings, recycled papers and other kinds of finger prints, the ingredients that are built and destroyed, clearly implode on the paintings of this Griot - which Mito is – and make of the paintings a "stravaganza", the access to which only the (ulterior and id) memory allow us.

Exhibitions

Exposições colectivas mais importantes: 

1983: Palácio da Justiça - Praia - Cabo Verde.

1984: Corêto Visual - Corêto da Praça / Centro Cultural Português - Praia - Cabo Verde.

1991: AR.CO - Lisboa - Portugal.

1992: Palácio Foz - Lisboa - Portugal.

1993: Hotel Méridièn - Luanda - Angola.

1994: Culturgest - CGD - Lisboa - Portugal, Jovens Africanos Na Gymnásio - Galeria Gymnasium - Lisboa - Portugal.

1995: AMI - Lisboa - Portugal.

1996: Mosteiros dos Jerónimos - Lisboa - Portugal.

1997: The Karantonha Exhibit - Boston - E.U.A.

1998: Brescia - Itália.

1999: Galeria Capitel - Leiria, Arte na Cidade - Pedralvas - Lisboa - Portugal.

2000: Lusofonias - Fitares - Sintra - Portugal, Erotismo - Galeria Gymnasium - Lisboa - Portugal, Centro Cultural Português - Luanda - Angola.

2001: Bienal de Moura - Galeria Municipal de Arte - Moura - Portugal. 

2002: Perve - Lisboa - Portugal, I Bienal de S.Tomé e Princípe. 

2003: Galeria Gymnasium - Lisboa - Portugal. 

2004: Imagens Lusófonas - Videoteca de Lisboa, Feira de Arte contemporânea de Lisboa - Portugal. 

2005: 30 anos de artes plásticas em CV - Palácio da Assembleia Nacional - Praia - Cabo Verde. 

2006: PERSPECTIVAS - 7 OLHARES - Instituto Franco - Português. Lisboa - Portugal, LUSOVIDEOGRAFIA - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil.

2007: Le Bourgeois Experimental. - S. German des Prés. - Paris - França. 

2008: Exposição comemorativa dos 50 anos da fundação Bissaya Barreto. - Coimbra - Portugal, Porto Madeira 2008 - Santiago de Cabo Verde, ECOS À BOLINA (Na Rota De Calamus) - CINUSP - S.Paulo - Brasil, AFRICA NOW! - Emerging Talents From a Continent on The Move - World Bank - Washington DC - USA.

2009: XVI Galeria Aberta - Beja - Portugal. 

2010: TANGO IN CARMINALE - 35 Anos de Arte em CV - Praia - Cabo Verde, PALMANHAN DI ONTONTI - Feira de Arte Contemporânea do Algarve – Portugal.

Exposições individuais:

1983: Artesanato & Pintura - Centro Cultural Francês - Praia - C.V.

1989: 15 imagens alternativas de Cabo Verde - Associação de Cabo Verde - Lisboa, Portugal.

1995: Dueto com G. Condeixa - Galeria Gymnásio - Lisboa, Portugal, Mitomorfoses - Praia e Mindelo - C.V.

1997: Lágrimas de indigo - Praia e Mindelo - C.V.

1998: Lantuna na mei di mar - EXPO'98 - Lisboa, Portugal, Águalusa & Terracota - Recreios da Amadora, Portugal, Insulano (11ª ilha) - Galeria Municipal da Amadora, Portugal.

1999: Serenata em Bilingue - Teatro Baltazar Dias - Funchal, Madeira, Kurasson di sibitchi - Praia e Mindelo - C.V.

2002: Garage Cookin' - Casa do Marquês – Lisboa - Portugal, Mare Calamus - Casa Museu Jorge Vieira – Beja - Portugal, N' - Livraria Ler Devagar – Lisboa - Portugal. 

2003: A Blue Note 4 HS - Biblioteca Nacional/Paços do Concelho - Praia – Cabo Verde. 

2004: Timenti Lua Ka Subi - Palácio da Cultura - Praia - Cabo Verde.

2005: Promessa Di Marlargo - Livraria Mabooki - Lisboa -Portugal. Dia Santo Na Lém Di Mulato - Palácio da Cultura - Praia - Cabo Verde.

2006: Li-Sim-Sim - Kerry Center - Pequim/Fisherman’s Wharf - Macau - China. Tchuba Na Bindi – Convento de S.José - Lagoa – Algarve - Portugal, Só Pamodi Bó (1 Recordai Pa Luís Morais) - Biblioteca Orlando Ribeiro - Lisboa – Portugal. 

2007: Le Bourgeois Experimental - St. Germain Des Prés - Paris - França Na Som Di Kriolu - Expominas - Belo Horizonte - Brasil. 

2008: FishBonEye - Câmara Municipal de S.Vicente - Cabo Verde, Nu Bai – Auditório do BCA – Praia – Cabo Verde. Ecos à Bolina (Na Rota De Calamus) - USP - S.Paulo - Brasil.

2009: Nó Di Sulada - WMDC - Rotterdam - Holanda.

2010: De Pareidolia (Rabislongo & Nha Paredi) - Dueto com Ana Rita Pires - Palácio da Cultura - Praia - Cabo Verde, POEMix (poemas de nenhum lugar) - Duetto com Binga de Castro - IILP - Praia - Cabo Verde, Na Fai Minotu - Reitora da UNICV - Praia - Cabo Verde.

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