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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[A fascination with material erosion is at the center of David’s photographs, alongside his curiosity for the small details of forgoten urban ruins and a silent revolt towards the constant disapearance of the cityscapes where he grew up, in favor of the insistent sociapthy of modernization]

From ventilation shafts,
details of utilitarian mechanisms,
industrialized textures,
and the occasional dramaticaly infused project featuring compositions with
intricate set designs...
David’s photographic work
is consistently dealing with
an equilibrium of contrasts.