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Simão Palmeirim Costa (Lisbon, 1984) finished his degree in Painting at Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa (FBAUL) in 2007; his Masters in Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins in 2009 and his PhD in Art Sciences at FBAUL, in 2016. He has had several exhibitions and publications, in Lisbon and London. His academic research focuses on the relations between theory and artistic practice. He is an independent curator, a cultural mediator (for the Gulbenkian Foundation), responsible for several scientific dissemination actions (conferences, editorial coordination, digital contents etc.) and is accredited as a teacher trainer by CCPFC, having created the program ¿Art and Mathematics¿ for the National Arts Plan. He is a collaborating researcher in the CIEBA-FBAUL research center, dedicated to geometrical abstractionism in Portugal. In recent years his focus has been the work of Almada Negreiros. In 2020/21 he curated two exhibitions dedicated to this modernist author, in the Batalha Monastery and the National Museum of Ancient Art.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Simão Palmeirim Costa

Citation names

  • Palmeirim, Simão

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F310-1E9E-C21E
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1404-7665

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2019 - 2020
Concluded
 Training trainers program (Especialização pós-licenciatura)
Major in Visual Arts curricular development specialization
Direcção Geral da Educação, Portugal
 Aproved
2018 - 2018
Concluded
 Cultural mediation training program (Outros)
Major in Visually impaired visitors
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
 Aproved
2011/09/01 - 2016/06/28
Concluded
 Belas-Artes / Fine Arts (Doutoramento)
Major in Art Sciences
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal
"A Aquisição do Espaço Plástico Renascentista na Pintura Portuguesa de1411 a 1525. Competências Geométricas e Compositivas do Final da Idade Média ao Início do Renascimento" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aproved unanimously with distinction and honours
2010/02/01
Concluded
 Student Associate Scheme (Postgraduate Certificate)
Major in Education
Institute of Education University of London, United Kingdom
 Completed
2008/09/01 - 2009/09/11
Concluded
 MA Fine Arts (Master)
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design School of Art, United Kingdom
"Sublime after Objecthood and Awareness of Scale" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 77%
2007/12/27
Concluded
 Artes Plásticas - Pintura / Fine Arts - Painting (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal
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Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/09 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/01/01 - 2023/12 Contract for archive management Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2020 - 2022 Teacher trainer Republica Portuguesa Ministério da Educação, Portugal
Plano Nacional das Artes, Portugal
2017/01/01 - 2021 Cultural mediator Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/09/01 - 2021/07/31 Modernismo.pt - Virtual archive of the Orpheu generation
FCSH/IELT/UID/ELT/00657/2019/1; 2019-2020
Procedimento PDC N.o 4/2022 CONTRATO N.o 7/2022
Research Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/01 - 2017/12 Art and Mathematics in Almada Negreiros geometrical abstraccionism
205348
Ref. 205348
Research Fellow
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
2016/07/01 - 2016/12/31 Modernismo Online - Virtual archive of the Orpheu generation
FCT UID/ELT/00657/2013
Research Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2011/01 - 2015/12 PHD - The acquisition of Renaissance visual space in Portuguese painting from c. 1411 to c. 1525
SFRH/BD/68826/2010
PhD Student Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2021 - 2024 UNVEILING THE MURAL PAINTING ART OF ALMADA NEGREIROS (1938-1956) TECHNICAL, MATERIAL AND DIAGNOSTIC SCIENTIFIC STUDY AS A GUIDE FOR ITS FUTURE CONSERVATION AND ENJOYMENT
PTDC/ART-HIS/1370/2020
Consultor
Laboratório Hercules Herança Cultural Estudos e Salvaguarda, Portugal

Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral do Património Cultural, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Palmeirim, Simão; Freitas, Pedro J.. Almada Negreiros and the Batalha Monastery. Portugal: Documenta / Mosteiro da Batalha. 2021.
    Published
  2. Palmeirim, Simão; Freitas, Pedro J.. Almada Negreiros' book of problems. Lisboa, Portugal: Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática. 2015.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Palmeirim, Simão; Giorgia Casara. "MODERNISMO.PT - Contributions of an archive to rethink a concept". In CIBERTEXTUALIDADES - Rearquivo, autoarquivo, metaarquivo: formas e transformações do arquivo, 114-127. Porto, Portugal: Edições Universidade Fernando Pessoa, 2022.
    Published
  2. Palmeirim, Simão. "Methodological issues of an imagined altarpiece". In Almada Negreiros and the pannels, 6-19. Lisboa, Portugal: DGPC - Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, 2020.
    Published
  3. Palmeirim, Simão; Mariana Pinto dos Santos; Freitas, Pedro J.. "Ver". In José de Almada Negreiros - Uma maneira de ser moderno, edited by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; Documenta, 101-125. Lisboa, Portugal: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian / Sistema Solar, 2017.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Freitas, Pedro J.. "The pentagram and the Golden Angle in Almada Negreiros' Mural «Começar»". Paper presented in Bridges Conference, Stockholm, Stockholm, 2018.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Giorgia Casara; Valeria Tocco; Massimiliano Tortora; Annalisa Volpone; Palmeirim, Simão. European Modernism Studies. Milan, Italy: Ledizioni. 2024.
    Accepted • Editor
  2. Mariana Pinto dos Santos; Irene Frazão, Michelle Portela, Gabriela Carvalho; Mercedes Sánchez Pons; Cláudia Nunes; Pedro Freitas; Ana Mehnert Pascoal. Mural paintings - Almada, Portinari and more (provisional title). NOVA FCSH / Un. Évora. 2024.
    Under revision • Editor
Exhibition catalog
  1. Palmeirim, Simão; Costa, Sílvia Laureano; Sara Afonso Ferreira. Almada untold. Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal / Babel, 2013.
Journal article
  1. Palmeirim, Simão; Freitas, Pedro J.. "Materialisation and materiality in Almada's geometry". On Almada Negreiros' mural paintings 1 1 (2024):
    Open access • Submitted
  2. Palmeirim, Simão. "Almada Negreiros and Le Corbusier. Parallel methodologies and critical reception". RIHA Journal (2024):
    Accepted
  3. Palmeirim, Simão; Freitas, Pedro J.. "On a critical edition of an artist's book by Almada Negreiros". European Modernism Studies 3 (2024):
    Accepted
  4. Palmeirim, Simão. "Decoding a drawing: The stained-glass color scheme of the altar of Igreja de Nossa Senhora de Fátima". Color Research & Application 49 1 (2023): 177-187. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/col.22901.
    10.1002/col.22901
  5. Freitas, Pedro; Palmeirim, Simão. "The geometry Almada read". Revista de História da Sociedade e da Cultura 20 (2020): 283-297. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/1645-2259_20_13.
    10.14195/1645-2259_20_13
  6. Palmeirim, Simão; Freitas, Pedro. "Mathematics+Art: A Cultural History by Lynn Gamwell". The Mathematical Intelligencer (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00283-019-09911-w.
    10.1007/s00283-019-09911-w
  7. Palmeirim, Simão; Freitas, Pedro J.. "Mathematics in the work of Almada Negreiros". European Modernism 4. Almada Negreiros: Un trait d'union tra arti e culture (2018):
    Published
  8. Costa, Simão Palmeirim, 1984-. "Geometry in visual composition of Portuguese primitive painting". Convocarte 2 (2016): 84-99. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/30256.
    Published
  9. Palmeirim, Simão. "Art Based Research: oscillation, ambivalence and surprise". Investigação em Artes - A Oscilação dos Métodos 1 1 (2015): 195-206. https://www.academia.edu/19199096/Research_in_Arts._The_Oscillation_of_the_Methods.
    Open access • Published
  10. Palmeirim, Simão; Freitas, Pedro J.. "Almada Negreiros and the Geometric Canon". Journal of Mathematics and the Arts (2015):
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1080/17513472.2015.1012699
  11. Palmeirim, Simão. "Geometry in the abstract works of Almada Negreiros. Four 1957 compositions". Revista de História de Arte W 2 (2014): 460-471. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/118196.
    Open access • Published
  12. Palmeirim, Simão; Freitas, Pedro J.. "The language of the square". Cine Qua Non 8 (2014): 160-173. https://cinequanon.pt/2016/05/04/cine-qua-non-8/.
    Open access • Published
  13. Palmeirim, Simão. "From personal to transmissible". Cine Que Non 5 (2012): 128-131. https://cinequanon.pt/2016/05/04/cine-qua-non-5/.
    Open access • Published
  14. Palmeirim, Simão. "The necessity for a proposition". Cine Qua Non 3 (2010): 114-121. https://cinequanon.pt/2016/05/04/cine-qua-non-3/.
    Open access • Published
  15. Palmeirim, Simão. "Sublime, after objecthood and awarness of scale II". Cine Qua Non 2 (2010): 62-71. https://cinequanon.pt/2016/05/04/cine-qua-non-2/.
    Open access • Published
  16. Palmeirim, Simão. "Sublime, after objecthood and awarness of scale I". Cine Qua Non 1 (2009): 46-61. https://cinequanon.pt/2016/05/04/cine-qua-non-1/.
    Open access • Published
Journal issue
  1. Palmeirim, Simão; Fernando Rosa Dias. "Art and Geometry II". Convocarte 2 (2016): http://convocarte.belasartes.ulisboa.pt/index.php/2017/04/05/n-o-2-e-3-arte-e-geometria/.
    Published • Invited editor
  2. Palmeirim, Simão; Dias, Fernando Rosa. "Art and Geometry I". Convocarte 1 (2016): http://convocarte.belasartes.ulisboa.pt/index.php/2017/04/05/n-o-2-e-3-arte-e-geometria/.
    Published • Invited editor
Online resource
  1. Palmeirim, Simão; Raquel Feliciano; Cecília Costa. Art and Mathematics - Symmetry. 2020. https://gulbenkian.pt/descobrir/publication/arte-e-matematica-simetria/.
  2. Palmeirim, Simão; Raquel Feliciano. Being Modern is... Modernism, Modernity and the Avant-garde. 2020. https://gulbenkian.pt/descobrir/ser-moderno-e-modernismo-modernidade-e-vanguardas/.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Costa, Simão Palmeirim, 1984-. "A aquisição do espaço plástico renascentista na pintura portuguesa de c.1411 a c.1525 : competências geométricas e compositivas do final da idade média ao renascimento". PhD, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/25111.
Website
  1. Palmeirim, Simão; Freitas, Pedro J.. Começar. 2018. https://gulbenkian.pt/almada-comecar/.

Artistic / Performance

Curatorial / Museum exhibition
  1. 2023. "Almada Negreiros and the Batalha Monastery - online exhibition".
  2. 2023. "130 anos do nascimento de Almada Negreiros - Artwork and documents exhibit from Almada Negreiros and Sarah Affonso's estate".
  3. 2022. "Almada Negreiros and the pannels - online exhibition".
  4. José de Almada Negreiros. 2020. "Almada Negreiros and the Batalha Monastery".
  5. José de Almada Negreiros. 2020. "Almada Negreiros and the pannels". In Almada Negreiros and the pannels.
  6. 2013. "Almada untold". In Almada por contar.
  7. José de Almada Negreiros. 2013. "Almada untold - online exhibition".
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/09 Almada Negreiros and Le Corbusier. Parallel methodologies and critical reception 130 anos do nascimento de Almada Negreiros
NOVA University Rectory (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023 Decoding a drawing: Igreja de Nossa Senhora de Fátima glassworks colour scheme Colours 2022: Bridging Science with Art
Hércules Laboratory Évora University (Évora, Portugal)
2022/12 On a critical edition of an artist's book by Almada Negreiros THE MATERIALITY OF MODERNISMS Third International CEMS Conference
FCSH NOVA (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/03/11 Geometry in Portuguese 15th and 16th century painting Art and Science in the Portuguese Renaissance
Centro Interuniversitário de História da Ciência e Tecnologia (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/10 Materialisation and materiality in Almada's geometry Colours 2022: Bridging Science with Art
Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2021 Common aspects of Art and Mathematics International Science Festival FIC.A
International Science Festival FIC.A (Oeiras, Portugal)
2018/05/04 Almada and the way to abstraction Mathematics Professors Association
Escola Secundária de Cacilhas (Almada, Portugal)
2018 The Geometry of Almada Negreiros in the Coimbra murals Conference on Digital Tools in Mathematics
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018 Geometrical methodologies in Portuguese primitive painting 6º Encontro Nacional da História das Ciências e Tecnologia
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/11/11 Geometry in Almada Negreiros' work TEAR - Artistic territories with mathematics
Luso-Brazilian Colloquim (Óbidos, Portugal)
2017 The importane of pictorial composition in national artistic methodologies, in relation to the European context Renascimentos europeus- diálogo(s) sem fronteira(s)? Colloquium
CHAM-FCSH-UNL (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017 The Golden Angle and how to construct it Recreational Mathematics Colloquium, , 2017
Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016 Almada Negreiros and the Geometric Canon Bridges Conference, Finland
Briges Conference (Jyväskylä, Finland)
2016 A importância da vesica piscis na pintura portuguesa dos séculos XV e XVI Encontro Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática
Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016 The importance of 'vesica piscis' in Portuguese painting of the 15th and 16th centuries Encontro Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática
Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015 Mathematics in the work of Almada Negreiros Almada Negreiros: un trait d’union tra arti e culture
Dipartimento di Filologia, Letteratura e Linguistica - Universidade de Pisa (Pisa, Italy)
2014 Almada Negreiros' Mathematical problems Encontro Nacional da SPM
Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática (Lisboa, Portugal)
2013 Geometry in Almada Negreiros's abstract work. Four 1957 compositions Almada Negreiros International Colloquim
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisboa, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/12/20 - Current Desenhos de um artista - um manual de geometria de Almada Negreiros
Co-supervisor
 História e Filosofia das Ciências (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022 - 2025 "Almada Negreiros e o Mito do Artista Total"
Co-supervisor
 Doutoramento em Estudos Portugueses, com especialidade em Estudos de Cultura (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023 - 2023 130 anos do nascimento de Almada Negreiros Conference (2023 - 2023)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/01/01 - 2022/12/31 Third International CEMS Conference 2022 The Centre for European Modernism Studies (CEMS) is a University research centre whose aim is that of investigating Modernism under the multiple layers of the term such as artistic, literary, historical point of views. (2022/12/15 - 2022/12/17) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Centre for European Modernism Studies, Italy
2021 - 2022 Group of 9 open access lectures dedicated to Almada Negreiros' mural artworks . 1 lecture per month, via zoom (june 2021 - march 2022) (2021 - 2022)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Organizer of the thematic session: Renascimento(s): Aquisição de teoria e prática de composição visual na Arquitectura, Pintura e Escultura, at 6º Encontro Nacional da História das Ciências e Tecnologia (2018 - 2018)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
 Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
2013/01/01 - 2013/11/30 Colóquio Internacional Almada Negreiros, em Lisboa, de 13 a 15 de novembro de 2013, na Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. (2013/11/13 - 2013/11/15)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/02/01 - Current Teacher training program "Digital transition in the Arts" Certified by CCPFC and available through the National Arts Plan Curso de Formação de Professores - Arte e transição digital (Outros) Conselho Científico-Pedagógico da Formação Contínua, Portugal
2020/09/01 - Current Teacher training program "Art and Mathematics" Certified by CCPFC and available through the National Arts Plan Curso de Formação de Professores - Arte e Matemática (Outros) Conselho Científico-Pedagógico da Formação Contínua, Portugal
2017 - Current Guest lecturer in several Masters / PhD courses, invited by Professors from the University of Lisbon (Faculty of Fine Arts and Faculty of Sciences, predominantly) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022 - 2024 Art and Humanism História da Arte (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2022 - 2024 Análise da Obra de Arte História da Arte (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2017/05/08 - 2017/06/05 Geometry and Composition Free Course - Geometry and Composition in the work of Almada Negreiros (Outros) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2016 - 2016 Isto é matemática Matemática e Arte

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2015 - 2016 Convocarte Nº2 (2183-6981) FBAUL - CIEBA
2015 - 2016 Convocarte Nº3 (2183-6981) FBAUL - CIEBA
Distinctions

Award

2021 Anual Wards, under the field "Research"
Associação Portuguesa de Museologia, Portugal