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Medo não medo
1988/1998, steel and golf ballsGaleria da Restauração, Porto
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Thick Layer of Silence (on entering the world)
2000, steel2 pieces, each: 450x75x75cm
Parque Histórico da Pena, Sintra, Portugal
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What shall I do when you are not here?
2004, steel210x120x524cm
Coll. Museum Folkwang Essen, Germany
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Secret sovereignity (until the moment our sweet meeting comes)
2000, steel714x280x280cm
Coll. Peter Meeker, Porto
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Extinguish my eyes
2005, steel214x130x130cm
Coll. Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Denmark
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Sad and vertical Europe
2000, steel900x56x30cm
(Iglesia de San Mateo, Cáceres)
Coll. Elga de Alvear, Spain
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I want everything from you
2006, steel375x140x140cm
(Mens / Mankind)
St. Peterskirche, Leuven, Belgium
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Onde estou?
2007, steel200x100x2300cm
Fondazione Volume!, Rome, Italy
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Unborn
2001, steel9 pieces, each: 325x65x65x
(Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem)
Private Collection, Holland
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Sick Angel
2000, winter tree, steel and aluminium26 pieces, each: 60x13x13cm
Coll. S.M.A.K. - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuel Kunst
Gent, Belgium
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I am like you
2008, steel580x220x200cm
Avenida da Liberdade, Lisboa
(Coll. PLMJ)
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The world becomes silent
2004, steel50x1000x1000cm
Jardim da Sereia, Coimbra, Portugal
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I am your yesterday (and you are my tomorrow)
2010, steel420x270x354cm
Hjerting Strandpark, Esbjerg, Denmark (Coll. Lida og Oskar Nielsens Fond)
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L'oggi cosi lento e lo ieri cosi breve
2011, steel2 pieces: 252x80x80cm, 200x70x70cm
Exhibition: "Entrate per la porta stretta", Matera, Italy
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What frightens you so much?
2008/2009, steel440x92x80cm
(Exhibition: "Colossal", curator: Jan Hoet, Osnabrüker Land, Germany, 2009/2011)
Coll Würth, Künzelsau, Germany
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The solitude of Giorgio de Chirico
2011, steel171,5x48x48xcm
Coll. CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Burning in the forbidden sea
2011, steel, light and recorded voice(Exhibitions: Five Rings, with Orla Barry, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisboa (2011)
“Chegar sem partir / Arriving without leaving”, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto (2022)
Coll. CAM - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, Portugal
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Quiet wound of the yes, knife of the no
2013, steel and light5 pieces, each: 300x27x78cm
Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisboa
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Deine Hände / Nachtblume
2013, steelGalerie Karin Sachs, Munich / Galerie Ute Parduhn, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Rumor
2015, steel2 pieces, each: 480x50x50cm
(Exhibition: Família , with Pedro Costa, Criptopórtico - Museu Nacional Machado de Castro / Anozero Biennial, Coimbra)
Coll. MACRO - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Roma
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Whisper
2015, steel180x120x33cm
(Exhibition: Família , with Pedro Costa, Criptopórtico - Museu Nacional Machado de Castro / Anozero Biennial, Coimbra)
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Incêndio / Burning
2017Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisboa
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Sheepish moon
2018,steel277x64x90cm
(Permanent installation after the exhibition "Seelenschatten")
Hain, Bamberg (Germany)
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Farewell
2018, steel650x230x1000cm
(in collaboration with Architect Eduardo Souto de Moura)
Barragem de Foz Tua, Portugal
Coll. EDP
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Root
2019, steel915x43x55cm
Nova SBE, Carcavelos (Portugal)
Donation by Hovione
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La nuit
2018, steel and plaster sculpture "Le Nez", by Alberto Giacometti81x29,5x287cm
(Exhibition: "Rui Chafes et Alberto Giacometti - Gris, Vide, Cris", Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian - Délégation en France (with the collaboration of Fondation Giacometti), Paris.
Curator: Helena de Freitas
Coll. Fondation Giacometti, Paris
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Occhi che non dormono / Sleepless eyes
2020, steel310 x 160 x 860 cm
Permanent installation at the Fondazione Centro Giacometti, Stampa (Switzerland)
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Nada existe / Nothing exists
2021Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisboa
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Travessia / Passage
2022, steel and concrete197 x 86 x 67 cm
Coll. Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto
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Unless they love you
1987 / 2022, platex and blue light(new version of the work presented in 1987 at Galeria Leo, Lisbon)
(Exhibition: “Chegar sem partir / Arriving without leaving”, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, 2022)
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Rui Chafes e Alberto Giacometti - Gris, Vide, Cris
Centro de Arte Moderna / Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa (with the collaboration of Fondation Giacometti)Curator: Helena de Freitas
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Höre die Schatten
2024, steel194 x 50 x 262 cm
Private Collection, Düsseldorf (Germany)
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Sonhando tudo / Dreaming everything
2024, steelDiameter: 400 cm
Collaboration with Atelier de Arquitectura ARX Portugal
Praça General Humberto Delgado / Canal Central, Aveiro, Portugal