Francisco José Ribeiro Lopes dos Santos

Francisco José Ribeiro Lopes dos Santos, mainly known with the name, Francisco Santos was born on the 17^th May 1962 in Luanda,  Angola. He is an Angolan, Portuguese multi-talent artist who has several names and faces.

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With the name Francisco Lopez Santos, he is likely to be a swimmer.

As Xesko, he is good with the visual art.

The lovers of poetry know him with the name Elias Karipande.

The fantasy and science fiction know him with the name Alan J. Banta.

As a writer, he published with the use of English language and Portuguese language.

He represented the country in swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

He also stood for the country in some other international games, including the Algiers 1978 all African Games, the Moscow 1979 7^th USSR Summer Spartakiade and then in the Mexico 1979 Summer Universiade.

Biography

Francisco Santos’s parents, who were Portuguese came to Angola in the year 1959 and grew up in the African quarters of Luanda in the country. Since he was a young man, he was focused to the arts and sports. Francisco Santos started to write when he was 14 years of age; he started painting at the age of 16. In that time, he had published few short stories and poems in many magazines and newspapers in the country.

When he was in the secondary school,  he became the founder and the publisher of the magazine called The Bantalas,  which was totally dedicated to the art and he took part in a contest of Art Painting that had the main aim of producing a poster commemorative if the anniversary of the MPLA gaining the first place in the country.

He was good in sport and he got himself many national titles in the country in swimming and in Chess. He stood for the country in the some international competitions, and the last being in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Francisco Santos loves experiencing new things in the Art painting and he is strongly moved by the African art and by the work of Salvador Dali. The interest he had in painting was good until the year 1986, when he had a personal problem, though he started painting again in the year 2002.

He was a Militant of the Youth of the Party JMPLA. He dropped the politics of the country and relocated to Portugal in the year 1986. In Portugal he took up singing under the name Francis Riba,as he created many musical groups. From the year 1982 to the year 1999, Francisco Santos was involved in many musical and theatrical projects as a technician, as a musician, as a producer and as a director with numerous adaptations and two correct pieces.

Francisco Santos graduated in the Soviet Union in the year 1986, in Chemical Engineering, and it was there that he practiced more of the scientific drawing and Creative Thought in the Post Modernism. While he was in Portugal, he finished his studies in Data Processing, System Engineering and Programming.

Francisco Santos has a MA of the Modern day Fine Art from the Sheffield Institute of Arts, Sheffield United Kingdom. He has most of his works being shown in the public places and he is shown in many private and official collections of Portugal, UK, Angola, Russia, France, Brazil and Spain.

Works

Alan J. Banta

(Novel, Short story)

Ø  1976 – Exodus. ISBN 989-8085-10-X

Ø  1977 – Crossed fire I (A Travel to the Past) - FogoCruzado I (Uma ViagemaoPassado). ISBN 989-8085-11-8

Ø  1978 – Crossed fire II (Perhaps the Future) - FogoCruzado II (Talvez o Futuro). ISBN 989-8085-12-6

Ø  1979 – Crossed fire III (What Reality) - FogoCruzado III (QueRealidade). ISBN 989-8085-13-4

Ø  1981 – Zantar. ISBN 989-8085-14-2

Ø  1993 – Terrae Incognitae. ISBN 989-8085-15-0

Ø  1994 – Dreams (Short story) - Sonhos (Contos). ISBN 989-8085-16-9

Ø  1995 – Thoughts of Chom - Pensamentos de Chom. ISBN 989-8085-17-7

Elias Karipande

(Poetry)

Ø  1982 – The Rainbow Warriors - OsGuerreiros do Arco-íris. ISBN 989-8085-00-2

Ø  1984 – From Kabinda to the Kunene - De Kabindaao Kunene. ISBN 989-8085-01-0

Ø  1986 – 24 Hours in the Life (Finally the Peace) - 24 Horasna Vida (Finalmente a Paz). ISBN 989-8085-02-9

Ø  1988 – Green - Verde. ISBN 989-8085-04-5

Xesko

(Poetry)

Ø  1986 – Putting the Points in the iis - Pontosnosiis. ISBN 989-8085-03-7

Ø  1989 – A Step in thin Ice - 1 PassoemFalso. ISBN 989-8085-05-3

Ø  1993 – Between God and the Devil - Entre Deus e o Diabo. ISBN 989-8085-06-1

Ø  1996 – Muses (A Lost Secret) - Musas (Um SegredoPerdido). ISBN 989-8085-07-X

Ø  2002 – Ambiguities - Ambiguidades. ISBN 989-8085-08-8

Ø  2006 – The Electric Zone of the Colors - A ZonaElectrica das Cores. ISBN 989-8085-09-6

(Novel,Short story)

Ø  1998 – Cel,  Angel or Demon - Cel, AnjoouDemónio, ISBN 989-8085-18-5

Selected exhibitions

Solo

Oil on Canvas (101 X 76 cm) - Homage to Álvaro Cunhal (1913-2005).

Ø  1981 - "Freedom" Scientific Institute of Minsk (Minsk, Bielorussia - Ex. Soviet Union)

Ø  1982 - "Butterfly Effect" Humbi-Humbi,  Art Gallery (Luanda, Angola)

Ø  2004 - "7 Shades of Gray" Café da Ponte, Docas de Alcântara (Lisbon,  Portugal)

Ø  2008 - "E Pluribus Unum" First Gallery,  (Lisbon, Portugal)

Ø  2009 - "Devaneios, Reveries" Gallery Vasco da Gama,  (Loures,  Portugal)

Ø  2010 - "Devaneios II, Reveries II" Gallery Fernado Pessoa,  (Lisbon, Portugal)

Ø  2011 - "Transições, Transitions" Gallery Fernado Pessoa,  (Lisbon,  Portugal)

Collective

Oil on Canvas (101 X 76 cm) - (In exhibition in the Military Hospital of Belem, Lisbon,  Portugal).

Ø  1978 - "Um Quadropara a Revolução" (A painting for the Revolution) Noble Room of the National Assembly (Luanda, Angola)

Ø  2005 - Military Hospital of Belém (Lisbon, Portugal)

Ø  2006 - "Coisas de Campolide" (Things about Campolide) (Lisbon, Portugal)

Ø  2007 - "1st National Exhibition of Fine Arts" (Lisbon, Portugal).

Ø  2007 - "LembrarAbril" (Remember April - commemorations of 25th of April and the International Workers' Day) (Alcochete, Portugal)

Ø  2007 - "ViverCampolide" (To live Campolide) (Lisbon, Portugal)

Ø  2007, 2008 - Arte Fora da Galeria (Art Outside the Gallery) (Alcochete, Portugal)

Ø  2008 - "Os 5 Mágnificos" (The Magnificent 5) Tic Tac Café (Alcochete, Portugal)

Ø  2009 - Puro Arte,  (Vigo, Spain)

Ø  2009 - Artexpo NY,  (New York, U.S.A)

Ø  2009 - Art Meeting in London III,  Gallery 118,  (London, UK)

Ø  2009 - PoésieVisuelledans Paris II (Visual Poetry in Paris II), GalerieArtitude,  (Paris, France)

Ø  2009 - GaleriaAberta XVI (Open Gallery XVI),  Museum "Jorge Vieira",  (Beja, Portugal)

Ø  2009 - Around the Bull - Gallery Vieira Portuense (Porto, Portugal)

Ø  2010 - Transmission: Off Air,  SIAD Gallery,  (Sheffield, UK)

Ø  2011 - Global Echo: Artists in Print, Furnival Gallery,  (Sheffield, UK)

Ø  2011 - Creative Sparks 2011, Furnival Gallery,  (Sheffield, UK)

Ø  2007, 8, 9, 11 - Alcarte (Alcochete, Portugal)