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Lopes, Bertina, 1924-2012

Bertina Lopes: [exposição] Conseiho Executivo, República de Moçambique, 5-30 julho 1994. Maputo:
Ministério dos Negócops Extrangeiros, Ministério da Cultura e Juventude, 1994. 71pp. illus.
ND1097.6.M63L67 1994 AFA. OCLC 39540611.

This exhibition catalog is a tribute to Mozambican artist Bertina Lopes rather than a critical study of her work. She
has lived most of her adult life outside of Mozambique, in Portugal and Italy, apart from nine years in the 1950s when
she taught art in Maputo. But the artist retains ties to her natal country and in 1994 was invited for this exhibition on
the occasion of Mozambique’s 19th Independence anniversary.

Bertina Lopes: dipinti e sculture 1861-2000: una radice antica / curated by Enrico Crispoiti. Milan: Silvana,
2002. 95pp. illus. (color). ND1097.6.M63L672 2002 AFA. OCLC 49791044.

Mozambican artist Bertina Lopes, based for many years in Rome, retains a strong spiritual link to her country of
birth. Her first solo exhibition was in Maputo in 1958, and she has pursued an active artistic career ever since. Her
work displays a deep African sensibility with saturated colors and bold compositions of mask-like figures and
geometric forms. Best known as a painter, Lopes also sculpts in metal. Biodata is included.

Bertina Lopes: I Colori della Pace / curated by Claudio Crescentini and Massimo Domenicucci. Rome:
Palombi, 2012. 92pp. illus. (some color), bibliog. (pp. 83–91). Text in Italian and Portuguese. N7397.6.M63
L672 2012 AFA. OCLC 819377526.

This catalogue was published for an exhibition of Bertina Lopes’ work held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in
Rome. The exhibition was held on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the General Peace
Accord in Mozambique, where Lopes was born and raised. The catalogue is illustrated in color and includes tributes
and short essays on Lopes and her work. Also included is a biography of the artist.

Bertina Lopes: tracciati e percorsi 1998-1958. Orvieto: Palazzo dei Sette, 1998. 75pp. illus. (color).
ND1097.6.M63L673 1998 AFA. OCLC 55028739.

For Bertina Lopes, the road out of Mozambique, her land of birth (Portuguese father, Mozambican mother), is also
the way home; fundamentally, she has never left. Although living overseas for many years, she is drawn back again
and again through her work. This catalog of an exhibition held at Palazzo dei Sette, Orvieto, Italy, December 1998 to
January 1999, retrospectively moves backward in time from 1998 to her artistic debut in 1958. Most of the paintings
illustrated here are from her own collection.

Crescentini, Claudio. Bertina Lopes: tutto (o quasi). Roma: Palombi editore, 2013. 223pp. illus. (some color),
bibl. refs. Text in Italian; biography in English & Portuguese. ND1097.6.M63 L6733 2013 AFA. OCLC
880518327.

Bertina Lopes (1924-2012) was a transnational artist—before we popularized that moniker. Born in Mozambique,
lived in Lisbon and Rome, returned to Mozambique, she retained her spiritual connections to the land of her birth.
Her art throughout her long life reflects her African roots in themes, aesthetics, and color. This biography published in
the year after her death includes many archival photographs of family and friends well as tributes by those who knew
her. Images of her art are all black-&-white.

Expressão artística entre duas civilizações. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1993. [83]pp. illus. (pt.
color). ND1097.6.M6L86 1993 AFA. OCLC 30387608.

A retrospective of thirty years of Bertina Lopes' painting marks a successful career for this Mozambican woman,
who has lived most of her adult life in Italy. Her African roots are evident in the vivid color, rich texture and dramatic
forms of her painting; her painting style is abstract. Twenty-eight paintings are reproduced in color plus a series of
bronzes executed in 1979. Tributes and short essays about the life and work of Bertina Lopes are contributed to this
catalog by Simonetta Lux, Enrico Crispoldi, Nello Ponente, and Dario Micacchi.

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