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Engrácia Cardoso

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In Search of the Lost Paradise

Engrácia Cardoso (born 1976), graduate in Fine Arts from the Superior Artistic School of Porto, has been exhibiting individually and collectively in Portugal and abroad since 2004, the year she won the VIII Grand Painting Prize Fidelidade Mundial. In her current work for serigraphy, playing with thin lines and bold color patches in overlapping layers using a palette that harmonizes cool and warm tones enhanced by black, the artist offers us a unique zoology of a garden that represents the lost paradise of a peace and happiness predating our civilization, which should inspire us. Animals of the land and sky from overlapping times, an archaeology of memory that recovers a kind of Noah's Ark, a dream of a Golden Age that brings us closer to an original nature, a source of well-being and wisdom. (Maria João Fernandes - International Association of Art Critics (AICA)

Engrácia Cardoso

Born in Tomar in 1976, the artist holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Porto School of Art. She regularly participates in solo and group exhibitions. Some notable solo exhibitions include: Corrente d'Arte Gallery in 2007, 2008, and 2010; Pedro Remy Space in Braga in 2008; Projecta in Tomar in 2007; Gomes Alves Gallery in Guimarães in 2007; Municipal Gallery of Abrantes in Abrantes in 2006; São Gregório Chapel in Tomar in 2005; Santa Marinha Inn in Guimarães in 2005; Gomes Alves Gallery in Guimarães in 2004. As for group exhibitions, she has participated in the Coruche Biennial in Coruche in 2009; Cerveira Biennial in Cerveira in 2009; MV/C+V at Centro Cultural Vila Flor in Guimarães in 2009; Wollmagazin at Volksbank Kaiserslautern in Germany in 2008; I International Biennial of Montijo, Vespeira Prize in Montijo in 2008; La Mútua Prize at Fundació Cuixart in Barcelona, Spain in 2008; Jovens Criadores in Aveiro in 2007; La Mútua Prize in Granollers, Barcelona in 2007; Amadeu de Souza-Cardoso Prize in Amarante in 2007; Cerveira Biennial in Cerveira in 2007; Compiegn in France in 2006; Wollmagazin in Kaiserslautern, Germany in 2005; National Library in Lisbon in 2005; Culturgest in Porto in 2004; and Culturgest in Lisbon in 2004. The artist has been selected for the II Almada Drawing Biennial in 2018 and was the winner of the Paula Rego Prize at the Casa das Histórias, Paula Rego Museum in 2016. She was also awarded the Henrique Silva Travel Grant at the Cerveira Biennial in 2008 and the VIII Fidelidade Mundial Painting Grand Prize in 2004. Her works can be found in public and private institutions.
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Additional information

Artist

Engrácia Cardoso

Color

Bright Yellow, Bronze, White

Date

2013

Editor

Centro Português de Serigrafia

Format

Large

Image Size (in)

18.5 x 20.1 in

Total Size (in)

22 x 29.9 in

Orientation

Portrait

Paper

Fabriano Tiepolo 290gr Paper

Print Run

200

Technique

Screen print

Style

Flora and Fauna, Illustration, Watercolor

Framed

No