Engrácia Cardoso
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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
Additional information
Artist | Engrácia Cardoso |
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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 |