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Eurico Gonçalves

“Era Um Pássaro Alto Como Um Mapa”

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DáDá- Zen

In these editions, Dádá and Zen are the inspiring references for the calligrapher Master Eurico, a founding duet of his imagination and contemporary imagination.

Dádá, one of the most emblematic and inspiring movements of modernity (1916-1922), combines surreal irreverence with the cult of chance, absurdity, and irony, practicing the fusion between literature and painting.

To this subversive and renewing impulse, the artist adds the inspiration of the East and the Zen spirit, which also defends the escape from conventions and the freedom of creative power that manifests itself in everything that is natural and spontaneous in a universe where opposites complement each other.

Eurico Gonçalves

Born in 1932 in Abragão, Penafiel, this artist primarily worked in the field of painting, but was also a teacher and art critic, and a member of A.I.C.A. Within this context, they published several articles on topics such as the Plastic Expression of Children, Dadaism, Zen Philosophy, and Writing. They were a grantee of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Paris from 1966 to 1969. In 1971, they received an Honorable Mention for the Portuguese Art Criticism Award for Soquil. From 1972 to 1992, they were a member of the Governing Bodies of the National Society of Fine Arts. They received the Almada Negreiros Prize in 1998 and the Grand Prize of the Vila Nova de Cerveira Biennial in 2005. They authored the following books: Narratives of Dreams and Automatic Texts (1950-51), published by CPS in 1995; Children's Painting and Us - Parents, Teachers, and Educators, 1978; Art Discovers the Child and the Child Discovers Art (4 volumes) and Dada-Zen/Painting-Writing, 2005. In their artistic journey, they went through an initial surrealist phase, rooted in Freudian theories of the fantastic, and then evolved into non-geometric and gestural abstractionism, which emphasizes the use of brushstrokes and impulsive free lines. As the artist themselves stated in 2003, this painting aims to "reduce itself to very little or almost nothing, in function of liberating emptiness". They passed away in 2022 at the age of 90.
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Additional information

Artist

Eurico Gonçalves

Color

Hot Pink, Pink, White

Date

2012

Editor

Centro Português de Serigrafia

Format

Medium

Image Size (in)

15 x 10.8 in

Total Size (in)

19.7 x 13.8 in

Orientation

Landscape

Paper

Fabriano Tiepolo 290gr Paper

Print Run

125

Technique

Screen print

Style

Uncategorized

Framed

No