Luanda – The plastic artist Fineza Teta said Monday in Luanda that the scarcity of material to perform craft works represents an obstacle for artists to develop their work and contribute to the transmission of cultural values.
Speaking to ANGOP, Teta said plastic artists remain in this field thanks to their resilience, however , the lack of resources prevents them from achieving excellence , since the little material that appears on the local market is not of required quality, so painters always have to go outside the country to buy it.
The artist emphasized the fact that, through painting, painters are able to convey the characteristic traits of national culture in its many dimensions, underlining the fact that the authorities have made art schools available to those interested, but lamented the lack of teachers and maintenance of these structures.
"Artists must professionalize themselves if they want to make a living from their art. They must cultivate discipline, permanent study and meditation. Create their own market, based on the image of what they produce and be faithful to it," she said.
Fineza Teta is a Fine Arts and Design graduate by the Open Window Art Academy in South Africa, where she was awarded the School Mascot honor. She also has a degree in interior design from the New York Academy.
She has won several awards and distinctions, including honorable mentions in the ENSA Art Prize in 1988 from the Russian Foundation (IRIDA), the ENSA ARTE Youth Prize (2007) and the ENSA-Arte & Edson Chagas Collection Prize at the Venice Biennale (2012).
She also won the Grand Prize for Painting at ENSA arte in 2014, won for the first time by a woman.
She is a member of the National Commission for Universal Exhibitions, having represented Angola at Expo Japan/2005, Expo Zaragoza/2007, Expo Korea/2009, Expo Shanghai/2011, Expo Milan/2014 and Expo Dubai 2021, where her exhibition was inaugurated by the Crown Prince of the United Arab Emirates-Hamdan Bin Mohammed Al Maktoum.
In 2020, she won the public tender to design the Monument to the Victims of Political Conflicts in Angola and has participated in several group and solo exhibitions, both local and internationally.
His work is represented in various national and international public and private collections. AB/ART/TED/AMP
