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Exhibition "Ephemeral Landscapes" by Engrácia Cardoso and Rui Gaio

CARVED LANDSCAPES IN THE MEMORY OF ENGRÁCIA CARDOSO

"The visibility of a landscape and the emotional radiation that emanates from it are the faces of the same feeling, everything is connected to the whole."

Engrácia Cardoso (b. 1976), a painter, printmaker, and award-winning artist, offers us another page from her very particular album of memories, inspired in this case by an emigration experience in Trás-os-Montes, involving a group of two women and several children who followed a trail between stones, weeds, and wild vegetation, towards what they dreamed of as a liberating reality.

Reality becomes the starting point of an imagined nature, present in her screen printing creations in a process that the artist herself describes: "In the face of a sovereign nature, the landscape presents itself in a pictorial space (...). Creation has its expressive place, highlighting an inner and intimate aspect, as well as an external aspect in relation to escape (...)." From this dialogue between lived nature and a space nourished by memories and fertile silences, the exuberance of the cut-out and colorful forms of this universe is born, in a play between fine, Matissean lines and bold color stains, in a palette that harmonizes cool and warm tones enhanced by black.

Once again, the artist invites us, with her imagined flora, to revisit the lost paradise of a peace and happiness prior to our civilization, which should inspire us. The escape here is towards the celebration of the senses, appealing to the reconquest of touch, flavors, and scents, of a lost joy, the most serious thing in life according to Master Almada. From the real to the imaginary, which nourishes it to burst forth in vibrant forms of life and magical sensuality that we can appreciate today.

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

Black, Ivory, White

Date

2023

Editor

Centro Português de Serigrafia

Format

Large

Image Size (in)

27.2 x 24.4 in

Total Size (in)

32.7 x 27.6 in

Orientation

Landscape

Paper

Fabriano Tiepolo 290gr Paper

Print Run

100

Technique

Screen print

Style

Uncategorized

Framed

No