Miguel Petchkovsky Mixed Media Artist Portfolio

Miguel Petchkovsky -- Mixed Media

Artist Profile

Miguel Petchkovsky is a Mixed Media Artist

Miguel Petchkovsky

He started his artistic career in 1980 as a filmmaker for the AIC - Angolan Cinema Instute. From 1987 until 1992 he studied painting at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After his studies he experienced a wide range of other creative areas, such as photography, sculpture and conceptual installations. Petchkovsky frequently uses recycled objects and materials in his works. African life or history is often symbolized or implied in his works.

His videos about culture and cultural identity are one such occassion that are framed by the symbolized need of his character to return to Africa. His installations are of a modernist genre and challenge traditional borders. In his paintings and objects we find the influence of Schwitters and Rauschenberg, and the sarcasm and irony of Duchamps. Art catching the moment - experiences, memories and expectations frozen in time - is not a definition of human experience, but of the experience itself.

Workshops

2000: 'ECHAP', art workshop in Bamako (Mali) in colaboration
with the Rijksacademie and Centre Culturel Soleil
d'Afrique (participating artist)

1999: 'PROJECT TRANSLASCE', Piotrkow Trybunalski,
Poland (participating artist)

1998: 'DIRECTING ACTORS', workshop by Judith Weston,
Binger-Film Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(director) 'UJAMAA IV', Maputo, Mozambique (artist)

1995: 'ACTING FOR CAMERA', workshop by Delia Salvi,
Actorsstudio Amsterdam, Netherlands (cameraman)

Projects

2003: director - ‘PLACEBO’ 10’ DVD

2001: director - 'Ó Patria', 18', DVD

1998: director - 'YLUNGA', 10', Betacam SP, fiction film for
        Dutch television

1984: director - 'PIONEIROS', 30', 16mm, documentary for
        Angolan television

1984: assistent-director - 'MEMÓRIAS DE UM DIA', 90', 16mm,
       fiction film for Angolan cinema

1983: director - 'AGRICULTURA É A BASE', 30', 35mm,
       documentary, co-production Angola and Bulgaria

1983: assistent-director - 'ZUELA MADIMBA', 30', 16mm,
       documenatry for Angolan Film Institute (IAC)

1982: director - 'LUCAPA', 30', 16mm, documentary for Angolan
       cinema

Education

1987 - 1992: Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
1977: Pre university year, Portugal

1971 - 1976: Secundary school, Portugal

Award

1980 - 1985:Director, Documentary films for the Angolan film
         Institute IAC, Luanda (ANG)

1996 - 1997:Guest Lecturer Culture and Conflict, ICC,
         Breda (NL)

1996 - 1998:Guest Lecturer Intercultural Comunication,
         Tropen Instituut, Amsterdam (NL)

1997 - 1999:Guest Lecturer Cultural Studies, Leiden
         University (NL)

2000: Guest Lecturer, Academie voor Architectuur en
     Stedenbouw, Tilburg (NL)

2001: Guest Lecturer Cultural Studies, Leiden University,
         Leiden (NL)

Guest speaker House Der Kulturen der Welt, Mens momentanea, Berlin (GER)

Guest lecturer Technikon Natal , Fine arts departement Durban (SA)

Guest lecturer Industrial Urban archeologie/ video,Amadora city Hall (PO)

Creative Director CAS, Create Africa South www.cas.org.za

2002: Guest lecturer art in public space, Emmen city Hall (NL)

2003: Member of UNAP Association of Angolan Artists

Honorary member of Núcleo de Arte, Association of Mozambican Artists