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Antonio Manuel Lima Dias (Campina Grande, Paraíba, 1944). Multimedia artist. He learned the fundamentals of drawing from his grandfather. In the late 1950s, in Rio de Janeiro, he worked as an architectural draftsman and graphic designer. He studied under Oswaldo Goeldi (1895–1961) at the Open Printmaking Studio of the National School of Fine Arts (Enba). In the 1960s, he began incorporating words and phrases into his works. In 1965, he was awarded a French government grant and lived in Paris until 1968. He then moved to Milan, where he maintained a studio. In 1971, he released the vinyl record “Record: The Space Between” and began the series “The Illustration of Art”. In 1972, he received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to work in New York. In 1977, he traveled to India and Nepal, where he studied papermaking techniques. He initiated a series of works on handmade paper, which became an integral part of the pieces through its texture and blended pigments. In Kathmandu, he published “Tramas” (Weaves), an album of woodcuts. In 1988, he lived in Berlin as a fellow of the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst – DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). In 1992, he became a professor at the Sommerakademie für bildende Kunst in Salzburg, Austria, and the following year at the Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Source: Itaú Cultural