Carlos Quiterio

Fitacola and Co. is a publishing + curatorial project focused in collage on paper, by me and my wife, Graça Quitério.

The first edition consisted on an exhibition in Atelier Open, Amsterdam, together with the luxury zine launch “Fitacola & Co. #1″.
The second edition will follow in 2012. I am currently looking for Galleries collage artists in Germany, Spain and New York eho can participate in this project. Participating Artists: Fitacola (Carlos & Graça Quitério); João Pombeiro, Paulo Barros,  Zé Burnay, Benedita Feijó.

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My paintings are featured at Loja Viva – Home & Utilities store – In downtown Lisbon (Praça dos Restauradores) – until December 2010 – I also had the opportunity to make an exhibition with drawings and paintings, during June and July 2010, in the first floor of this same store – called “Girls Gonna Go”. Project commissioned by MOZO – (June- December 2010)

Junior Jetsetters Guide to Lisbon is a cool and funky tourist guide specially for the kids and the youth. It focuses on the life of two characters and their adventures in Lisbon and in some Portuguese places worth a visit.

I was commissioned to illustrate places, environments and landscapes of Lisbon and surroundings.

Didactic, informative and insightful, was presented in Amsterdam with an exhibition and other events related, featuring JJ’s editions with illustrations and texts from the collection guides from Paris, Amsterdam and Lisbon. Visit the site: juniorjetsetters.com and Atelier Open. (Released March 2009)

Illustrations to support a contemporary pottery and ceramics exhibition, held at Ferreira do Alentejo. (November 2006)

Re-searcher illustration Rep collective Exhibition. I have took part in the curatorial and promotion process, as well with a painting contribution. All works came from the represented illustrators, 50 x 70 cm dimensions. At Mousse Design Gallery, Lisbon, June 2006

Collective Exhibition where ‘fair price’ was the matter. Ended up by selling and trading for other artworks all my 12 pieces at the opening.

Place, The World in a Suitcase
A Suitcase with a blank book, a blank t-shirt and a camera traveled around the planet. 35 designers and Artists have translated the world around them into their pages, fabric and lens. After 18 Months spent on the making, and 170.000 Km traveled, It was presented in Barcelona, at CCCB in November 2004, and after that, in other Spanish cities and South-American soil.
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Exhibition held in Rio de Janeiro, whose concept and participations were, mainly, artworks made only in digital mediums. (2003)