Opening, July 24th till October, 9 – 2021
With over fifty years of career at the highest level, the painter António Carmo brings to Espinho a retrospective exhibition of his vast work, which he entitled “As Cores da Memória”.
Painter António Carmo returns to Espinho in 2021 for a retrospective exhibition – “As Cores da Memória” – the result of his artistic work developed over more than fifty years. of the movement that he lets through on the canvases.A creative eclecticism, in the words of Maestro António Victorino d’Almeida, characterized by a robust and healthy firmness.
The magic of shapes and the play of colors that he presents in his works make the artist born in Bairro da Madragoa, in Lisbon, a “poet-painter”, chronicler of a story full of visuality, descriptive realism and pictorial simplicity. oils on canvas and Chinese ink drawings materialize a figurative painting with an expressionist feature, very present in classical and Renaissance painting, highlighting the human being in all its fullness: the beauty of the body; love; peace; the essence These are colors present in our memory, luminous and fairy, intense and soft, of blues, yellows, reds and oranges, which fill voluminous and voluptuous bodies.
We are before a Master of Painting with an extraordinary national and international career, committed to artistic production and the dissemination of art, who brings to the Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Galleries of the Municipal Museum of Espinho an exhibition that reflects his freedom to create, interventional and without limits, rhythmic with light and harmony, and that reflects her unmistakable style of seeing the world.
Galleries Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso | Espinho Municipal Museum
Opening, July 24th at 4:00 pm
@ CM Espinho
