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GEMUCE, Pompilio Hilario
Selected by / Stina Edblom
Date of Birth / 1963
City/Country of Residence / Maputo, Mozambique
Country of Origin / Mozambique
Keyword/ Humor/Satire/Irony, Hybridity, Knowledge Production
Artist Statement
I am at peace
with my prejudices,
because understand that,
the human meaning has its base
in prejudice
in the question of prejudice
And then at peace
With the concept of prejudice
It has now become important
in my creative process
and in my life
My life has become
a prejudice
I not with prejudice
Gemuce
"Art is not a thing it is a way"
-Elbert Hubbart
Art for art sake's makes sense as whisky for whisky sake.
A poet cannot be created, neither an artist even lesser an artist thinker.
Philosophical cognition relies on a developed power to synthesize and generalize, this gift of fruition does not belong only to philosopher's, but also to artist's thinker's, whose deep generalizing and penetrating minds reveal, things that are less obvious, fruits of long observations and studies through perseverance.
Gemuce is an artist thinker and good philosopher, who thou still questioning himself fundamental philosophical questions, such as what is life, what is the soul, what's it's relationship to the body, how men defines himself, how does men relate to the world and to each other, what future can we expect?
Gemuce presents through this exhibition his last work, to share his deep interest in “the human existential and social text”.
With a vast experience of observing life, a mature personality and broad horizon, Gemuce observes, observes the social, the cultural, the political, globalization and creates images and objects of the tangible and intangible.
Gemuce artwork's yield themselves to understanding by reading art as an interpretative vision of the world, in them there is an exuberance of life and a unique impression explored in each artwork, that has the power to teach and enrich the feeling of life in us.
Bio/CV
Gemuce (Pompilio Hilario) was born on the 17th of August of 1963 in Quelimane, Mozambique. After completing standard nine, Gemuce relocated to Maputo to study a course in ceramics at School of Visual Arts from 1983 to 1985. In 1985 he became the monitor for the circle of Infants Interest in Visual Art's and organized a children program for television. In 1990 he graduated in Fine Arts at Kiev, (Ukraine) Institute of Fine Art. Three years later he completed a Masters degree in Mural painting at Kiev Academy of Fine Arts. In 1993, on return to his country, Mozambique, Gemuce opened the art gallery Ugupu with his friend and art peer, the late Bento Mukesswane. In 2001 Gemuce graduated with his Master's degree of Cultural Management from the University of Sorbonne, Nouvelle, France. Since 1994, Gemuce is a Senior lecturer at Escola de Artes Visuais (school of visual Arts). He is teaching Artistic Anatomy, Visual communication, Analytical Drawing, and Visual Education, at present lecturing the course of Visual Arts at ENAV. He is the co-founder, member and President of Muvart– movimento de arte contemporaneia, concerned with contemporary art.
Gemuce has held more than ten solo exhibitions and showed his work in Mozambique, South Africa, Namibia, Germany, Finland, Portugal, Russia, Brazil, and Ukraine.
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