Alberto Carneiro

The following year part to London a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to attend Saint Martin's School of Art (1968–1970), where he is a student of Anthony Caro and Philip King.

In London he makes contact with the newly emerging artistic trends at the end of the 1960s, notably with the minimal and British Conceptual Art.

From there develops innovative projects for the Portuguese context, including The cane field: metamorphosis memory of an absent body (1968) and A forest to your dreams (1970), which approaches the Land Art, revealing a special attention to the values of an art of 'involvement', which leaves the primacy of manual labor to consider the conceptual design, a progressive dematerialization of the artwork.

This anthropological vision of artistic creativity is combined with an approach to the Eastern philosophies of the essence and nature (Zen Buddhism, Tantra) and take you to draw up the 'Manifesto of Ecological Art' '(1968-72) that rejects the Western dualism sensuality / spirituality and promotes the rehabilitation of the easiest things in the mean of aesthetic communication .

[...] The show is composed mostly of works unpublished created from roots and trunks of orange trees, olive trees, bamboo and vines, always accompanied by glasses or mirrors with texts that, in addition to stress the importance of the word in the work of Alberto Carneiro, involve the viewer through its reflection ''.