Agenda Municipal / Exhibitions Ângelo de Sousa: Quase Tudo o Que Sou Capaz da Coleção de Serralves
Up until 29 Fev
Casa das Artes - Foyer
Ângelo de Sousa (Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, 1938-2011, Porto), in addition to being one of the most influential figures in Portuguese art of the second half of the 20th century, is one of the best represented artists in the Serralves Collection, with works carried out among the years 1961 and 2002, and which encompass all artistic means to which he dedicated himself during his prolific career: drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, film and photography.
"Ângelo de Sousa: Almost everything I am capable of" brings together a very considerable portion of these works - drawings, paintings and sculptures - with the aim of underlining the importance of contamination among those disciplines for the evolution of their artistic practice: by bringing together works by This exhibition combats the dominant image of the painter Ângelo, showing that drawing and sculpture are not only fundamental facets of his work, but also those in which the experimentalist spirit of his work is most evident.
Characterized by an apparent simplicity - the artist tries to obtain, in his words, "maximum effects with minimum resources, maximum effectiveness with minimum effort, and maximum presence with minimum screams" -, drawings, paintings and sculptures by Ângelo de Sousa do not illustrate concepts, they never start from ideas, but from the eagerness to do and think with their hands.
Ângelo de Sousa (Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, 1938-2011, Porto), in addition to being one of the most influential figures in Portuguese art of the second half of the 20th century, is one of the best represented artists in the Serralves Collection, with works carried out among the years 1961 and 2002, and which encompass all artistic means to which he dedicated himself during his prolific career: drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, film and photography.
"Ângelo de Sousa: Almost everything I am capable of" brings together a very considerable portion of these works - drawings, paintings and sculptures - with the aim of underlining the importance of contamination among those disciplines for the evolution of their artistic practice: by bringing together works by This exhibition combats the dominant image of the painter Ângelo, showing that drawing and sculpture are not only fundamental facets of his work, but also those in which the experimentalist spirit of his work is most evident.
Characterized by an apparent simplicity - the artist tries to obtain, in his words, "maximum effects with minimum resources, maximum effectiveness with minimum effort, and maximum presence with minimum screams" -, drawings, paintings and sculptures by Ângelo de Sousa do not illustrate concepts, they never start from ideas, but from the eagerness to do and think with their hands.
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