SOULS is a photographic essay by Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, started in 1973. It is a collection of portraits of hundreds of people made in the last forty years. More than a simple collection of pictures, SOULS is a conceptual work about the zeitgeist, the spirit of the time. They are 350 people from 40 countries, from famous personages like Ornette Coleman, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, René Berger, Mario Merz, Pierre Restany or Harald Szeemann, to people less known. SOULS is a work in progress. It has had many exhibitions in diverse countries in the last twenty-five years. Now, the 40 edition of the Project - which includes exhibitions and movie beyond the book - is dedicated to Lucrezia De Domizio, Baroness Durini - legendary personage of contemporary art. SOULS is published in four volumes. The book has an introduction by Pilar Parcerisas, the great Spanish art critic, historian and curator; and another text by Emanuel Pimenta. The persons in the VOLUME 1 are: Johannes Stuttgen . John Cage . John DS Adams . John Doing . Jonathon Appels . Jorge Emílio Medauar . Jorge Lima Barreto . Jorge Medauar . Jorge Pires de Miguel . Jorge Wilheim . José Braga Gonçalves . José de Melo Pimenta . Joseph Brenner . Juan Hidalgo . Júlio de Paula . Júlio Sarmento . Katherine Liberovskaya . Katia de Radiguès . Katsuhiro Yamaguchi . Katsuhito Atake . Katy Martin . Khris Karastathis . Larry Coriel . Larry Polansky . Laura Kuhn . Laura Pimenta . Leo Alouise . Leonel Moura . Leonello Tarabella . Linda Karshan . Lino Federico . Lisa Helfer . Livio Tragtenberg . Lorenzo Bianda . Lu Rodrigues . Luciana Brass . Luciana Pimenta . Lucrezia De Domizio . Ludo Engels . Luigi Biagini . Sá . Luís Eloy . Luís Girão . Luiz de Lucca . Luiz Melo . Luna Stanford . Lygia Campos . Magali Mussi . Marcia Grostein . Marco Agostinelli . Marco Bagnoli . Marco Cardini . Marco nereo Rotelli . Marco Rappatoni . Marco Solari . Marcos Novak . Margarida Ruas . Maria Bonomi . Maria Graff . Marianela Mirpuri . Mario Merz . Marisa Merz . Martha Mooke . Mary Opera . Massimo Donnà . Mattia Sorbi . Maurício Kus . Maurizio Barbetti . Merce Cunningham . Michael Burt . Michel Chevalier . Michel Kurk . Miguel Ribeiro . Mónica Matias Mirpuri . Monika Weiss . Mario Bottinelli Montandon . Natxo Checa . Nicola Giuliani . Nina Colosi . Nina Zaretskaya . Nuno Teotónio Pereira . Oklahoma Simms . Olga Mesa . Omar Galliani . Omar Ronda . Ornella di Bari . Ornette Coleman . Paloma Aguirre de Cárcer.
Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta has been considered an important musician, architect, writer, photographer and intermedia artist in the beginning of the third millennium - according to statements written by personalities like John Cage, Ornette Coleman, Merce Cunningham, René Berger, Daniel Charles, Dove Bradshaw, Phill Niblock or William Anastasi among others. With several international prizes, more than fifty published books, many electronic books and thirty audio compact discs, his works are included in some of the most important art collections and world-wide recognized institutions like the Whitney Museum of New York, the ARS AEVI Contemporary Art Museum, the Biennale of Venice, the Computer Art Museum of Seattle, the Kunsthaus of Zurich, the Durini Contemporary Art Collection, the Bibliotèque Nationale of Paris and the MART - Modern Art Museum of Rovereto and Trento among others. His works are also included in the Universalis Encyclopedia (Britannica) since 1991, in the Sloninsky Baker's Music Dictionary (Berkeley), the Charles Hall's Chronology of the Western Classical Music, as well as in the All Music Guide - The Expert's Guide to the Best Cds. Legendary musicians like John Cage, David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi, John Tilbury, Christian Wolff, Maurizio Barbetti, Audrey Riley and the Manhattan Quartet among others have performed his compositions. He collaborated with John Cage, as commissioned composer for Merce Cunningham, from 1985 until his disappearance in 1992. He remained composer for Merce Cunningham along more than twenty years, until Merce Cunningham's death in 2009. In the beginning of the 1980s, Emanuel Pimenta coined the concept of virtual architecture and designed the first virtual planet in history. He is also founder and director of the Arts, Sciences and Technology Foundation - Observatory, in Trancoso, Portugal (www.asa-art.com/facto.html). He is co-founder and director of the HOLOTOPIA Academy, in the Amalfi Coast, Italy (www.asa-art.com/holotopiaacademy.html). Emanuel Pimenta lives in Locarno, Switzerland - but he is also based in New York and Lisbon. His website is www.emanuelpimenta.net
