
MARIA LEAL DA COSTA
Sculptor
Maria Leal da Costa is a Portuguese sculptor, born in Évora in 1964. She studied interiors at António Arroio School and between 1982 and 1986 she attended the Sculpture course at Escola Superior de Belas Artes in Lisbon.

Maria
Leal
da Costa
She is a member of the National Society of Fine Arts. He has exhibited his work since 1994. She has an atelier in Quinta do Barrieiro, Marvão, Portugal, where she lives and works since 1999 and develops his project Alentejo Sculpture Park. Books open doors for her to fly to unknown places, where she finds much of her inspiration showing how they are an open window to the world. Travel companion of Camões, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Fernando Pessoa, Sophia de Mello Breyner, Gonçalo M. Tavares, among other writers, she chisels her ramblings in iron, marble and bronze, inviting the public to embark with her on her flights, as if to transcend, discover and penetrate to the core to contemplate and transmit, demystify and teach us the pedagogy of a fragile planet, but always open to all of us. Her work is represented in Portugal and abroad, in public and private collections, namely in museums, municipalities, state bodies and private companies, such as: Museu da Cidade de Lisboa, Museu do Mármore de Vila Viçosa. Municipalities of Punta Humbria in Spain, Macao in China, San Francisco in the USA, Vilnius in Lithuania, Lisbon, Portalegre, Marvão, Castelo de Vide, Alter do Chão, Évora in Portugal. Banks BCP, Espírito Santo, Caja de Salamanca y Sória. Ministry of Culture of Portugal, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Epul, College of Architects of Badajoz, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Library in Ponte Sor, Macau International Institute, Istituto Portoghese di Sant’Antonio in Rome.
The stone flies,
floats, runs, speaks...
is like words!
Awards and
Recognitions
Publicação do livro “Maria Leal da Costa – Escultura”, editora Caminho
2015
1º Primeiro prémio do Salão Anual da Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes (SNBA) pela obra "Correntes de Água"
2014 Lisboa
Seleccionada para o VIII Certame de Artes Plásticas “Sala El Brocense” – Diputación de Cáceres
2006 Espanha
Espanha – 1º Lugar no XI Premio Ibérico de Escultura, Ciudad de Punta Umbría
2004
Exhibitions
on display
Exhebition
Catalogue
Public
Projects
Homenagem a Garcia d’Orta” Jardim Castelo de Vide
2019 - Colóquio dos Simples
Memorial a Miguel de Unamuno
Fuerteventura, Ilhas Canarias
Escultura táctil da Torre de Belém – Jardim em frente à Torre de Belém / Rotary Club
2005 Lisboa
1º Lugar do Concurso Público para a concepção e execução de um monumento alusivo ao cavalo “Alter Real” – Rotunda no centro urbano de Alter do Chão
2003 Alter do Chão
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