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Magda Delgado

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Lithograph with glaze

NATURE AND ALCHEMY

Magda Delgado was born in Lisbon, where she remained until 2013 before moving abroad. She graduated in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and was a scholar of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2011). Her work is represented in various public collections and she has held numerous solo and group exhibitions. Since 2018, she has been working between England and Lisbon. According to the artist, the feeling of inadequacy in the modern world is the root of a conflict that is expressed in her works. Nature, as an absolute and a source of beauty, transcendence, and redemption, has become the inspiration for her creations.

In this lithograph, with its two-color glaze, we witness not just a "post-apocalyptic vision," but a process of dissolution, a sort of dark phase of alchemy that prepares for the advent of a solar transfiguration capable of returning humans to nature and their true nature.

Magda Delgado

Born in Lisbon, a city where she lived until 2013, Magda Delgado holds a degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon. She is represented in various public collections such as the Medeiros e Almeida Museum-House and the Fernando Pessoa House. She was a scholarship recipient from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2011) and her curriculum includes a significant number of individual and collective exhibitions. Due to the financial crisis, she left Portugal and lived in several countries, including England, Germany, and Luxembourg. In 2018, she returned to England and now works between Nottinghamshire and Lisbon. According to the artist, the feeling of inadequacy and conflict with the modern world has fostered a discord that is manifested in her creations. Concepts such as the Absolute; Mystery as a mystical vision; Asceticism; Human Condition; Beauty as a mentality and solace; Abyss; Transcendence and Redemption are aspects that are part of her work in the form of Nature-without-Human. Her working process has substantially focused on Ekphrasis as a method, a "making" with an ascetic attitude, as well as a process to study previous procedures. In part, it is a reaction to the post-modern legacy that separates the artist's body from the fabrication of the artwork itself and the presentation of their individual gestures to society.
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Artist

Magda Delgado

Color

Gray, Lavender, Silver

Date

2019

Editor

Centro Português de Serigrafia

Format

Large

Image Size (in)

14.6 x 19.9 in

Total Size (in)

22 x 30.3 in

Orientation

Portrait

Paper

Fabriano Art Satin Paper 300gr

Print Run

50

Technique

Lithography

Style

Abstract

Framed

No