Francisco Santos (swimmer)

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Francisco Lopes Santos
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Personal information
Full name Francisco José Ribeiro Lopes dos Santos
Nickname(s) Xesko
Nationality  Angola
Born (1962-05-17)May 17, 1962
Luanda, Portuguese Angola
Height 1.78m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Club Clube Desportivo Nun' Alvares
Clube Náutico da Ilha de Luanda
F.C.Belenenses

Francisco José Ribeiro Lopes dos Santos, known mainly as Francisco Santos (born May 17, 1962, in Luanda, Angola) is an Angolan/Portuguese multi-talent artist with many names and faces. As Francisco Lopes Santos he is likely to be known as a swimmer. Art enthusiasts may know him as the visual artist Xesko, lovers of poetry as Elias Karipande, fantasy and science fiction fans as Alan J. Banta. As a writer, published in English and Portuguese.[1]

As a sportsman represented Angola in swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics (Men's 100 m Breaststroke[2] and Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay[3]).

He also represented his country in other international games, including the Algiers 1978 All-Africa Games, the Moscow 1979 Seventh USSR Summer Spartakiade and the Mexico 1979 Summer Universiade.

Biography

Xesko's parents (who were Portuguese) had immigrated to Angola in 1959, and he grew up immersed in the African quarters (musseques) of Luanda.[4]

Since very young, he was dedicated to the arts and sports. He began writing at 14 years old and painting at 16 (watercolours and Chinese Ink). In that time, he had published some short stories and poems in several magazines and newspapers.[5]

In the secondary School, were a Founder and Publisher of the Magazine "The Bantalas" entirely dedicated to the arts (Fine Art Painting, Photograph, Prose and Poetry) and participated in a contest of Art Painting whose objective was the creation of a poster commemorative of the anniversary of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) obtaining the 1st place.[5]

He detached himself widely in sports, obtaining several titles of National Champion, in Swimming (consecutively from 1972 to 1980) and Chess (1977 and 1979). He also represented is nation abroad several times, being the last time in the 1980 Summer Olympics (Moscow).[6][7][8]

He loves experiencing new techniques and ideas in Art Painting, being strongly influenced by the African art and by the work of Salvador Dalí. His interest by the painting avenged until 1986, time in that personal problems caused to stop having started again painting in the year of 2002.[5]

Noticeable Militant of the Youth of the Party (JMPLA) abandoned the politics when he moved to Portugal in 1986.[5] In Portugal, began a career as a musician under the name of Francis Riba, having created several musical groups, being the better known, the psychedelic rock band ZEM.[9]

From 1982 to 1999 he was involved in several musical and theatrical projects as a technician, musician, producer and director, writing several adaptations and two original pieces.[5]

Graduated in the Soviet Union, in 1986, in Chemical Engineering, where he frequented also the courses of "Scientific Drawing" and "Creative Thought in Post-modernism". In Portugal, graduated in Data Processing, Systems Engineering and Programming. He frequented also the Courses of “Improvement in Painting Techniques for Oil Portraits”, promoted by the Fine Art-Painter Master Almaia, “Photograph and Graphic Design”, from IADE (Institute of Visual Arts, Design and Marketing), “Aesthetics and Theories of the Contemporary Art" and "Art Painting and Visual intervention”, from SNBA (National Society of Fine Arts).[5]

He has an MA of Contemporary Fine Arts from the Sheffield Institute of Arts (Sheffield Hallam University), Sheffield, England, and has several works displayed in public places and he is represented in several private and official collections in Portugal, Russia, France, Spain, Brazil, UK and Angola.

Heteronyms

Xesko
Born (1962-05-17)May 17, 1962
Luanda, Angola
Occupation Visual Artist, Writer, Musician, Sportsman
Genre Novel, Short story, Poetry
Xesko

Francisco Santos's primary nom d'art or alter ego.

Alan J. Banta

The heteronym Alan J. Banta is described as a civil engineer, born in 1952 in Kakamas, a village located in the Northern Cape, South Africa but living and working in Angola. After independence, in 1975, remained in the country, for he considers his true home. This heteronym, emerges as a prolific writer of fantasy and science fiction, because of their South African origins and English education, is tending to express in a very classical way. According Francisco Santos, Alan J. Banta, appears for the necessity of the author has in distancing his student's life from his fantasies.

Elias Karipande

By other side, the heteronym Elias Karipande, was born in 1958 in Karipande, a village of Alto Zambeze in Moxico, Angola. Countryman, having only attended primary school, enroll the People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA) in 1977 after the killing of their parents by the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). Born poet, his poetry reflects the heroic spirit of the time. According Francisco Santos, this heteronym, appears for the necessity of creating a soul of pure nationalism.

Works

Alan J. Banta

(Novel, Short story)

Elias Karipande

(Poetry)

Xesko

(Poetry)

(Novel, Short story)

Selected exhibitions

Solo

Oil on Canvas (101 X 76 cm) - Homage to Álvaro Cunhal (1913-2005).
  • 1981 - "Freedom" Scientific Institute of Minsk (Minsk/Bielorussia - Ex. Soviet Union)
  • 1982 - "Butterfly Effect" Humbi-Humbi, Art Gallery (Luanda/Angola)
  • 2004 - "7 Shades of Gray" Café da Ponte, Docas de Alcântara (Lisbon/Portugal)
  • 2008 - "E Pluribus Unum" First Gallery, (Lisbon/Portugal)
  • 2009 - "Devaneios/Reveries" Gallery Vasco da Gama, (Loures/Portugal)
  • 2010 - "Devaneios II/Reveries II" Gallery Fernado Pessoa, (Lisbon/Portugal)[10]
  • 2011 - "Transições/Transitions" Gallery Fernado Pessoa, (Lisbon/Portugal)[11]

Collective

File:Xesko - Recall Memory.jpg
Oil on Canvas (101 X 76 cm) - (In exhibition in the Military Hospital of Belem, Lisbon, Portugal).
  • 1978 - "Um Quadro para a Revolução" (A painting for the Revolution) Noble Room of the National Assembly (Luanda/Angola)
  • 2005 - Military Hospital of Belém (Lisbon/Portugal)
  • 2006 - "Coisas de Campolide" (Things about Campolide) (Lisbon/Portugal)
  • 2007 - "1st National Exhibition of Fine Arts" (Lisbon/Portugal).[12]
  • 2007 - "Lembrar Abril" (Remember April - commemorations of 25th of April and the International Workers' Day) (Alcochete/Portugal)
  • 2007 - "Viver Campolide" (To live Campolide) (Lisbon/Portugal)
  • 2007/2008 - Arte Fora da Galeria (Art Outside the Gallery) (Alcochete/Portugal)
  • 2008 - "Os 5 Mágnificos" (The Magnificent 5) Tic Tac Café (Alcochete/Portugal)
  • 2009 - Puro Arte, (Vigo/Spain)[13]
  • 2009 - Artexpo NY, (New York/U.S.A)[14]
  • 2009 - Art Meeting in London III, Gallery 118, (London/UK)[15]
  • 2009 - Poésie Visuelle dans Paris II (Visual Poetry in Paris II), Galerie Artitude, (Paris/France)[16]
  • 2009 - Galeria Aberta XVI (Open Gallery XVI), Museum "Jorge Vieira", (Beja/Portugal)
  • 2009 - Around the Bull - Gallery Vieira Portuense (Porto/Portugal)[17]
  • 2010 - Transmission: Off Air, SIAD Gallery, (Sheffield/UK)
  • 2011 - Global Echo: Artists in Print, Furnival Gallery, (Sheffield/UK)
  • 2011 - Creative Sparks 2011, Furnival Gallery, (Sheffield/UK)

See also

References

  1. ↑ (German) Ein wahres Bild von Angola?
  2. ↑ Men's 100 m Breaststroke, XXII Summer Olympics, Results
  3. ↑ Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay, XXII Summer Olympics, Results
  4. ↑ CARMO, Fernando Infante do, (2003). Anuário Internacional de Arte 2003, Lisboa: F.I. Carmo.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 African Success, Online Magazine
  6. ↑ DIÁRIO DE LUANDA, Luanda, Angola, (1968 to 1974), Newspaper
  7. ↑ PROVÍNCIA DE ANGOLA/JORNAL DE ANGOLA, Luanda, Angola, (1968 to 1981), Newspaper
  8. ↑ RECORD, Lisboa, Portugal, (1982 to 1990), Newspaper
  9. ↑ Discossete, (1992). Relação de Grupos dos Anos 80, Lisboa: Discossete
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  17. ↑ Around the Bull, Gallery Vieira Portuense
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Additional references
  • Official Site
  • DIÁRIO DE LUANDA, Luanda, Angola, (1968 to 1974), (Newspaper)
  • PROVÍNCIA DE ANGOLA/JORNAL DE ANGOLA, Luanda, Angola, (1968 to 1981), (Newspaper)
  • International Olympic Committee, (1980). Moscow '80, Moscow: Fizkulturai Sport Publishers'.
  • Federação Portuguesa de Natação, (1984) “Ranking Nacional 82/83”, Lisboa: FPN.
  • Federação Portuguesa de Natação, (1985) “Ranking Nacional 83/84”, Lisboa: FPN.
  • Federação Portuguesa de Natação, (1986) “Ranking Nacional 84/85”, Lisboa: FPN.
  • Federação Portuguesa de Natação, (1987) “Ranking Nacional 85/86”, Lisboa: FPN.
  • Federação Portuguesa de Natação, (1988) “Ranking Nacional 86/87”, Lisboa: FPN.
  • Federação Portuguesa de Natação, (1989) “Ranking Nacional 87/88”, Lisboa: FPN.
  • RECORD, Lisboa, Portugal, (1982 to 1990), (Newspaper)

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