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Manuel Tainha

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

OP (after Vale do Silêncio), 2024

Lime and bleach on velour cotton

250×300 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

OP (after Vale do Silêncio), 2024

Lime and bleach on velour cotton

250×300 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Exhibition View

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Sutura, 2024

Lime, pigment and bleach on cotton velvet, aluminium frame

60×50 cm 

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Sutura, 2024

Lime, pigment and bleach on cotton velvet, aluminium frame

60×50 cm 

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Detail of Sutura, 2024

Lime, pigment and bleach on cotton velvet, aluminium frame

60×50 cm 

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Ema, 2024

Lime and bleach on cotton velvet, aluminium frame

180×140 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Ema, 2024

Lime and bleach on cotton velvet, aluminium frame

180×140 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Detail of Ema, 2024

Lime and bleach on cotton velvet, aluminium frame

180×140 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Exhibition View

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Muro, 2024

Photo, velvet, aluminium frame with UV70 glass

40×30 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Exhibition View

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Figura I, 2024

Aluminium

26x50x40 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Figura I, 2024

Aluminium

26x50x40 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Exhibition View

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Nuvem & Arcadas, 2024

Graphite on paper, velvet, aluminium frame with UV70 glass

40×30 cm (each)

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Estrilho, 2024

Graphite on paper, velvet, aluminium frame with UV70 glass

40×30 cm 

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Exhibition View

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Figura III, 2024

Aluminium

31x93x74 cm 

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Figura III, 2024

Aluminium

31x93x74 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Exhibition View

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Exhibition View

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Exhibition View

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Figura II, 2024

Aluminium

125x95x76 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Detail of Figura II, 2024

Aluminium

125x95x76 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Detail of Figura II, 2024

Aluminium

125x95x76 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Exhibition view from the solo show Notes on discomfort at Foco Gallery, 2022

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Midnight, 2022

Bleach on cotton and burned velvet

250×300 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Midnight, 2022

Bleach on cotton and burned velvet

250×300 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Detail of Midnight, 2022

Bleach on cotton and burned velvet

250×300 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Detail of Midnight, 2022

Bleach on cotton and burned velvet

250×300 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

The height of the throat, 2022

Embroidery on velvet

250×300 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

The height of the throat, 2022

Embroidery on velvet

250×300 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

The height of the throat, 2022

Embroidery on velvet

250×300 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Detail of The height of the throat, 2022

Embroidery on velvet

250×300 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Detail of The height of the throat, 2022

Embroidery on velvet

250×300 cmDetail of

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Exhibition view from the solo show Notes on discomfort at Foco Gallery, 2022

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Brief joints, 2022

Burned velvet

60×50 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Exhibition view from the solo show Notes on discomfort at Foco Gallery, 2022

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

One storey house, 2022

Bleach on cotton velvet and burned velvet

100×80 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Dragon, 2022

Burned velvet

50×30 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Exhibition view from the solo show Notes on discomfort at Foco Gallery, 2022

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Solo de mi (after Canaletto), 2022

Embroidery and bleach on cotton velvet

150×110 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Exhibition view from the solo show Notes on discomfort at Foco Gallery, 2022

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

N.O.V.A (after Torre Vasco da Gama), 2022

Burned velvet

150×110 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

N.O.V.A (after Torre Vasco da Gama), 2022

Burned velvet

150×110 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Striated chest, 2022

Burned velvet

50×30 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Striated chest, 2022

Burned velvet

50×30 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Exhibition view from the solo show Notes on discomfort at Foco Gallery, 2022

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Notes on discomfort, 2022

Burned velvet

170×140 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Place And Occasion (Ether), 2021

Embroidery on velvet

200×140 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

My Teeth in Your Neck, 2021

Bleach on sewn cotton, velvet

180×120 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

LINGUA-DE-BOI (OX TONGUE) & I TOLD U SO (FLKS), 2020

Bleach and sewn on cotton, wood and nail

60x50cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

DOUBLE STAND, 2018

Bleach and sewn on cotton

200x60cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

CORRENTEZA, 2019

Bleach and sewn on cotton

200×140 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Exhibition view of Salmão Fingido at Foco gallery, 2020

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Untitled, 2020

Bleach on sewn cotton, wood and nails

60×50 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Untitled, 2019

Bleach on cotton

180×140 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

CORRENTEZA, 2019

Bleach on sewn cotton

200×140 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Exhibition view of Salmão Fingido at Foco gallery, 2020

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

POSTA E MEIA, 2020

Bleach on sewn cotton, wood and nails

60×50 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

TRANCHE, 2020

Bleach on sewn cotton, wood and nails

60×50 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Exhibition view of Salmão Fingido at Foco gallery, 2020

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

MEDALHÂO, 2020

Bleach on sewn cotton

140×180 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Untitled, 2020

Bleach on sewn cotton, wood and nails

60×50 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Exhibition view of Salmão Fingido at Foco gallery, 2020

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

GOUJON, 2020

Bleach on sewn cotton

180×140 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Detail of GOUJON, 2020

Bleach on sewn cotton

180×140 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

Exhibition view of Salmão Fingido at Foco gallery, 2020

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

FLT , 2019

Bleach on sewn cotton, wood and nails

30x10x05 cm

Foco Galeria Manuel Tainha

FLT , 2019

Bleach on sewn cotton, wood and nails

30x10x05 cm

Manuel lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. He studied at Faculty of Fine Arts of University of Lisbon and  at the class of Anselm Reyle at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (HFBK). Tainha’s work explores composition throught the alternance of processes, may it be addition/subtraction, or bidimentional/ objectual. The cultural value of  materials, limitation, violence in creation and the domestic condition are constants in his working process.