Manuel Rosa

Manuel Rosa was born in 1953 in Beja, Portugal, and in 1987 he completed the course of Sculpture at the School of Fine Arts of Lisbon. In the early 1980’s he was a student and collaborator of João Cutileiro. Working with materials such as stone (preferably limestone), bronze, glass and metal, Manuel Rosa explores the intrinsic characteristics of the materials he uses, through abstract forms that almost always have a figurative reference that gives his work a certain symbolic dimension. In addition to solo and collective exhibitions, he participated in sculpture symposia, and conceived public art projects, such as Homenagem to D. João II, 1998, a sculpture made life in Parque das Nações, Lisbon, on the occasion of the Expo’ 98. He was the main person in charge of the publishing company Assírio & Alvim, continuing to be linked to it as an external collaborator after its purchase by the Porto Editora group in 2012.