The Author
Manuel Carmo is, at present, Consultant of the European Museum Forum (Portugal) and also Consultant for Aporem (an association integrating 17 Museums) international projects.
Since January 2007, he has accepted responsibilities in the Museum of Water of Coimbra, as Executive director of the Cultural and Contents Department and is the Chairman of AABA Arts Editions.
He was the Bairro Alto Art Gallery’ Arts Director and as such organized important exhibitions of reputed painters, such as Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Erró, Gerard Schlosser and Joyce Tenneson.
His life and work were the subject for a 30 min documentary, in 2005, produced by the Portuguese Public Television Channel RTP1 in collaboration with Universidade Aberta, and broadcast through RTP International channel.
Manuel Carmo was the single Portuguese painter invited to submit a project - Let’s Art! - to the UNESCO World Conferente on Education through the Arts, in 2006. Sanchez Bravo, the Chairman of the UNESCO Spanish Committee considers his painting as "a new nude and harmonious-musical path to transcend truth".
His most recent Exhibition/Performance in Portugal, in 2005, entitled "1755 – the Cemetery of Hope or the 7 Virtues for Rebirth", evoking the 250th anniversary of the Lisbon 1755 earthquake, was honoured by the high patronage of H.E. the President of the Republic, Mr. Jorge Sampaio.
In 2006, at the "Angel Orensanz Foundation Center for the Arts", in New York, he exhibited a set of works on the creative act in Art, named "Manifesto 24", which included painting, sculpture and video. On this exhibition, the New-Yorker art reviewer Nancy di Benedetto said, “the best homage one may pay to Manuel Carmo is the acknowledgement that his works do not belong to any predetermined schools nor movements as they challenge categorization and opens the path for new territories for the Arts in the twenty first century”.
Manuel Carmo is regularly invited to lecture on Art, within the scope of activities of UNESCO, "Collect and Share" and "Life Long Learning" Projects, and also the EU’ “Socrates” and “Grundvig” Programmes.
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