THE ENCLOSED SPACE OF MELANCHOLY
António Faria creates designed forests, but his intentions are different. It explores a deep sadness through small gestures, in undulating and precise, unexpectedly creative strokes of small foliage, from a small branch that follows another to the intertwined and sensitive tangle. In the magical expression of a natural recollection, one senses the importance of melancholy and this disturbance or distortion of mood, in the sinuous lines of the trees, sometimes in immersive experiences, sometimes in the enclosed space of a room, aggravated by the reduced use of colors, in blues, blacks or vibrant reds.
Sousa Pinto, a Portuguese author by far, chose France as the enclosed space of his landscapes, in rural approaches, close to this meticulous pleasure, experienced in the detailed traces of the trees and brief and countless natural filaments.
A century‐old temporal abbreviation brings together the technique of two artists, so different in their line. The freedom of António Faria's gesture contrasts with the rigor of João António Correia's drawing. In common, they treated the technique of passing on as the ultimate purpose of emotion. The front of the paper, colorued and stained as the artist intends, appears through the mastery of the work of transfer, on the back, to obtain the desired and precise effect. We are left with the other side of melancholy and the deeper expression of a portrait of a young man.
- MARIA DE AIRES SILVEIRA
The exhibiton is on diplay till January 26 of 2025
Adress: MNAC_Rua Serpa Pinto, 4 | Rua Capelo, 13, 1200-444 Lisbon
