DAVID MAGALHÃES ALVES


David Magalhães Alves is a Visual artist and musician from Lisbon, Portugal. His works as a violinist and painter have foccused individually and collectively on several ensembles and multidisciplinary projects, featuring in collective exhibitions and live performances at some of the foremost national venues, such as CULTUGEST (Lisbon); GNRATION (Braga); Teatro S. Luíz (Lisboa); Museu Abade Baçal (Bragança); Casa das Artes (Arcos de Valdevez); Sonoscopia (Porto), and many others.

Throughout his career, he collaborated with projects of different media and typology, working with internationally recognized artists such as: Gonçalo M. Tavares; Pedro Carneiro; Vera Mantero; Pedro Calapez; António Jorge Gonçalves; Carlos Zíngaro; Pavel Gomziakov; Natalia Tchitch; Iddo Bar-Shai; Tiago Bettencourt; Carla Caramujo; Daniel Garlitsky; Sofia Neuparth; Phill Niblock; Reinhold Friedl, among many others.

Currently, he maintains activity as an independent multidisciplinary artist, is part of the directing team at the EVERYSIGHT & EVERYSOUND project since 2019; is a founding member of GNU VAI NU multimedia collective; and is a founding member and musician at both of the acclaimed HEDERA 4TET and ZARM Ensemble quartets.


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CONTACT
WORK

2020 “Untitled” Mixed media on prepared unstretched canvas 100x140cm
PAINTING

A consistent search for both tension and equilibrium.


With HEDERA 4TET, at O’Culto da Ajuda - Photo by Nuno Martins
MUSIC

A colection of intentional sponteneity and braving the unorthodox.



Excerpt from GNU VAI NU’s “LXTOMAD” Official music video 
VIDEO  

A construction of contrasting memories in transparancy.




With HEDERA 4TET X António Jorge Gonçalves, at Lisboa Incomum - Photo by Nuno Martins
MULTIDISCIPLINARY

A quest for how sound sees, or how visual media listens.



PHOTOGRAPHY

A voyeuristic aproach to degradation and a longing for ruin.




VIDEO  

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A duty to share and learn from others.


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ILLUSTRATION 

[ Primarily based upon the ever loyal sketchbook and graphite pencil, David’s illustration is his oldest companion, with a fundamental early childhood devotion to the influence of cartoons cut out from ye old newspapers, diverse childrens books, saturday morning television and independent comics ]

A pursuit of the nonsensical and the wonderous.


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