FLORES DELICADAS QUE NÃO TÊM MEDO DA MORTE

The exhibition features over 30 entirely new works, including drawings, sculptures, and video installations, showcasing the latest creative phase of an artistic practice deeply shaped by drawing.

In this body of work, the compositions — stemming from melancholy, that "black bile" of revelation, self-awareness, and universal connections — transcend the mere mimicry of the natural world to offer us a glimpse of its spirit and its telluric force.

Ranging from the small to the monumental, the compositions on display assert themselves through their sumptuousness, the product of a continuous, almost compulsive, artistic endeavor of diachronic drawing that António Faria imprints on paper.

These works are rendered in monochromatic hues that evoke a landscape at once natural and rich, yet almost uniformly suffused with the sense of human absence. A nature in decay, confronting death, through which we can hear the unknown spirit of a holocenosis where an unfathomable force pulses.

A nature that is sometimes camouflaged, sometimes the camouflage itself. Chiseled! It becomes the stage-landscape for the dramatization of emotions, projecting a cosmovision of the intimate.

Through color, through an exhaustively explored “Pantone," and through the drama infused into the chiselled drawings of "The Neighbors" from "Artificial Paradises," inhabited by “Delicate Flowers Facing Death”, we grasp the conceptual relationships that shape António Faria's inner landscape, which here weaves a surrealist play of concealment-revelation, where he presents himself in "Self-Portrait in Motion" as the dilettante protagonist of an inverted narrative.

CATALOGUE

A FUGA DE WANG FÔ - Marguerite Yourcenar

Exclusive Artistic Edition by the artist António Faria