Born
in Lisbon, 1970.
Lives
and works in Lisbon.
EDUCATION
1988/90:
attended Painting Course at AR.CO (Art and Communication Center), Lisbon.
1989/94:
attended Painting Course at FBAUL (University of Lisbon – School of
Arts).
1994/98:
attended Sculpture Course at the same university.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1997:
Abstrakt (Bild in Motion), Art Attack, Café Flôr de Liz, Caldas
da Rainha.
SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2001: Disseminações,
Culturgest, Lisbon.
Sparring Partners vs Tone
Scientists, CAPC, Coimbra.
União Latina Prize,
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.
Streetwear, Galeria da Mitra,
Lisbon.
Squatters, Serralves Foundation,
Oporto.
Colectiva,
Galeria Cristina Guerra, Lisbon.
Apresentação, Galeria Central
Tejo, Museu de Electricidade, Lisbon.
7/10, Sete Artistas ao
Décimo Mês, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.
2000:
VídeoLisboa 2000 – Video Installations, Palácio Galveias,
Lisbon.
O
Olhar da Contemporaneidade, Palácio da Rosa, Lisbon.
ZDB
Go To Frisco, Sister Spaces, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA.
IMAGO2000
(film and video encounters), Covilhã.
FAC
2000 – Contemporary Art Fair, Cristina Guerra Gallery, FIL, Lisbon.
1999:
Touch, Sala de Exposições da Casa da Cultura da Horta, City
of Horta, Faial Island,
Azores.
BM99,
Bienal da Maia, Fórum da Maia, Maia.
Colecção
António Cachola, Arte Portuguesa anos 80-90, Museo Estremeño
e
Iberoamericano
de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain.
1998:
III Bienal de Arte AIP’98, As Escolhas dos Críticos de Arte Portuguesa
Contemporânea,
Europarque, Santa Maria da Feira.
Art
Attack na ZDB *, Galeria ZDB, Lisboa.
O
Império Contra-Ataca, Galeria ZDB, Lisbon.
Tone
Scientists: Live at Malibu Beach *, Art Attack no Museu de Cerâmica,
Caldas da
Rainha.
Casa
de Rute *, Galeria ZDB, Lisbon.
1997:
Anatomias Contemporâneas, O Corpo na Arte Portuguesa dos Anos 90,
Fundição
de Oeiras, Oeiras.
Take
Off, Galerie Krinzinger, Benger Fabrik, Bregenz, Austria.
Toys
Are Us, Cisterna da Faculdade de Belas Artes, Lisbon.
II
Bienal de Arte Jovem da Maia, Forum da Maia, Maia e Valladolid, Spain.
II
Bienal de Famalicão: Em Torno de Camilo, Fundição Cupertino
de Miranda, Vila
Nova
de Famalicão.
X-rated,
Galeria ZDB, Lisbon.
1996:
Titanium Exposé **, Galeria Graça Fonseca, Lisbon.
Zapping
Ecstasy *, CAPC, Coimbra.
Virtual
Shop, Galeria ZDB, Cutting Edge, AR.CO, Madrid, Spain.
Greenhouse
Display, Estufa Fria, Lisbon.
1995:
Lisboa Fora de Horas – 29.9.95, Lisbon.
Heaven
Inc., CAPC, Coimbra.
Clausura
– Objectos Experimentais, Galeria Satélite na Galeria ZDB, Lisbon.
1994:
Independent Worm Saloon **, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon.
Set-up,
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon.
Qualquer
Semelhança É Inevitável, Loja da Atalaia, Lisbon.
1993:
Real Rave, Cine-teatro da Portela, Sintra.
**
as an artist and a curater.
*
with Tone Scientists.
OTHER
PROJECTS
Co-founder
of the independent music label Moneyland Records.
Former
member of the experimental music project Gary Cooper.
Tone
Scientists (+ Rui Valério and Carlos Roque) is an art band with all
the dreams, needs and fears of a rock one.
Former
member of DUB VIDEO CONNECTION,
a project developed in collaboration with João Carrilho and Rui Valério
about everything about video: production, shooting, editing, overdubbing,
broadcasting, live-act mixing...
...X-React, Lisbon, 1997.
...Subsonyko
III,
Cisterna do Príncipe Real, Lisbon, 1998.
...Subsonyko
IV,
Armazéns Abel Pereira da Fonseca, Lisbon, 1998.
...Midnight
Tea,
Praça Sony at Expo 98, Lisbon, 1998.
3
shows with the eletronic music project Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzp!:
at ZDB Gallery, at FNAC and at Garage as the support set for a Mouse On Mars concert (they all took place in Lisbon
during 1998).
As
Vee
Jays residents at LUX-Frágil (www.luxfragil.com) they have performed more
than 100 live-acts, providing visual support for dj’s, musicians and
bands such as DJ Vibe, Rui Vargas, Yen Sung, Zé Pedro Moura, Norman
Jay, Superfly, Kid Loco, Dinis, Tiago, Cut La Roc, Paulo Feliciano, Mark Rae,
Aim, Rockers Hi-Fi, Fauna Flash, Ben Wilcox, Kevin Mckay, Claas Brieler (Jazzanova),
Amalgamation of Soundz, Jadell, Unabombers, DJ As-If, Henry Smithson, Poppa
Laws, Rainer Truby, Alex Barck (Jazzanova), Fabio, Grooverider, Cinematic
Orchestra, Groove Armada, Peter kruder, Richard Dorfmeister...
Along
with João Paulo Feleciano they have shown LANDSCOPE, a gig kind of
a HOUSEWARE EXPERIENCE short version, at LUX-Frágil (1999); Bienal
de Poesia, Vila Nova de Foz Côa (1999); and at 5º Festival X, Cacilhas,
Almada (1999).
Participation
in the project «Snapshots» within experimentadesign99, Lisbon.
Also
in 99 the program Metropolis of TVE (Spanish Television) broadcasted Dub Reel,
a four minutes blasting Dub Video Connection promo.
Member
of the «resident houseware team» that already presented HOUSEWARE
EXPERIENCE – explorations in live mixed media (www.grandecena.com/houseware) first edition at Central
Tejo in Lisbon (1999), featuring Amon Tobin, D-Fuse, The Apolloprogram, Nonplace
Urban Field, David Toop, Rafael Toral, Major Eléctrico, Peterman, Dreamlab,
among others.
More
recently, HOUSEWARE EXPERIENCE flow to Germany for a gig at Hannover EXPO
2000.
Em
Tempo Real was a HOUSEWARE EXPERIENCE collaboration with Nova Dança
4 (a brazillian dance company from São Paulo) that took place during
the ACARTE Encounters Brazil 2000 at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon,
and was also shown at Dança Brasil Festival 2001, Banco Cultural do
Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
RUI
TOSCANO contact:
address:
R. Miguel Ângelo de Blasco, #6, 1070-182 Lisboa, Portugal.
home
phone: 00 351 21 3880339
celular
phone: 00 351 96 6870633
e-mail:
rui-toscano@clix.pt