Biography

Tolentino Gorjão Clara was born in Lisbon in 1970. From early days he started drawing and making toys.

He entered primary school imagining he was going to a kind of zoo where children would learn in the middle of nature,
He only liked the idea of school again when he entered Art school António Arroio in 86 for the Graphic Design and Communication course.
In 87 he began his experimental course in Plastic Arts in Atelier Livre  AT.RE directed by Professor Pedro Morais who,
besides being his Master of Fine Arts and friend, he was also his Graphic Design teacher at the same school,
He had as colleagues in this special space, Atelier Livre, strong links of coexistence
of friendship and work with Andrea Marta, Adriana Sá, Francisco Tropa, Edgar Massul, José Durmond,
Marta Soares, Noé Sendes Rui Calçada Bastos, among others.
He took the Curso de Realização Plásticas de espéctulos in 1992 at the Conservatório Nacional.
José Carlos Barros was his Master and Professor of Scenography.
He was assistant to José Nuno da Camara Pereira from 93/94, who later in 96
invited him to create the Morphological design of the Monsters Olharapos which
that had the objective of making the street animation of Expo 98
He made several projects of education through Art with Rita Tormenta where they made
several projects for Gulbenkien Centro de Arte infantil CAI, invited by Dr. Natália Pais
and more recently for the Chiado Modern Art Museum through the Cento Nacional de Cultura
In 2006 one of his author films, subsidised by the Ministry of Culture, was shown at the Cinemateca
Strategies for a Life, his film " Emotionist " which took ten years to complete.
In 2007, as he no longer had the possibility of working with materials, he
decided to start definitively the study of 3d
In 2011 he took several specialized courses in Human and Animal Anatomy Design
and animal anatomy, conceptual design of creatures digital painting, digital sculpture and
and classic sculpture, in the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Los Angeles, where he received an award

for "best sculptor" where he officially started his 3d training, 
had as teachers and friends Eric Keller, Jack Bosson, John Brown.
In 2016 with no galleries on earth to exhibit his sculptures ! he made his first
interactive exhibition on the moon online in a virtual gallery called
Ataécina which places his 1st exhibition on the Lunar surface, with
altitude maps provided for free by NASA.

This gallery Ataécina has the intention to make exhibitions on all the
planets of the solar system for "Fringe Artist", as long as there are altitude maps 
ceded by NASA or another organism. It was online until 2018 when Google removed

 the Unity plugin losing the gallery thus easy access, this same virtual gallery had

again a public had again a public presentation at the Appleton Gallery in 201.

Over the years he has had several collective and individual exhibitions of paintings and objects at Galeria

Monumental , Gulbenkien, Forum Picoas, Hotel Penta, Palácio da Ajuda among others.
without exhibiting for some years although his plastic work was daily, when he felt the need to exhibit he

couldn't find a gallery so he made his first exhibition Virtual on the Moon .

He is currently developing his last project "Amarute New Chapter 2021 in Tharsis Montes Marte".
Where he questions himself about the only incentive for the touch being the virtual
and the existence of life with intelligence superior to ours as ours to that of a chicken!

Tolentino Gorjão Clara has associated during his artistic career the Drawing the Sculpting, Painting ,

object animation, digital animation, with integration of physical objects, interactive objects,

paper sculptures, holograms and 3d printing in biological plastic.