At the Portuguese Screen Printing Center there will be: Open from February 18th, an exhibition of lithographs from the 50s and 60s, silkscreens from the 80s to the 1980s. current affairs and photographs (1956 to 1971) by Carlos Calvet. In total, there are around 27 works that make up this exhibition, which can be seen until the end of the exhibition. March 18th. The inauguration will take place It will take place on February 18th, Saturday, starting at 4pm and will count towards the end of the year. with the presence of the artist. If in lithographs the abstracting forms are born that will feed Carlos Calvet's painting in the sobriety of white and black that is? also the atmosphere of the beautiful photographs, landscapes and everyday motifs halfway between the real and the unreal, is wonderful. It is in the explosion of color of the screen prints that the enigma and seduction of his universe is best confirmed, under the sign of the poets Fernando Pessoa and António Maria Lisboa, by the artist portrayed. The work of Carlos Calvet is in Portuguese modern art, a fundamental reference not only for constituting a universe of intense originality, marked by a double dreamlike and surreal aspect, but also and above all, for having come to affirm, like Almada, of which We can consider him a brilliant disciple, an esoteric thought along the lines of symbolic geometry, to which he gave expression in a recent book. Disciple of Almada perhaps, as he was of Matila Ghyka, but above all Master for future generations who in his painting will be able to simultaneously learn a lesson in plastic mastery and a poetic wisdom based on old myths and the ancient secrets of humanity. During the 1950s, when more or less opposing trends were fighting: neo-realism of a political and revolutionary nature, surrealism that was equally revolutionary but on an aesthetic level and the emerging abstraction; o, revealed at the Salon of 1954, Calvet knew how to choose the path of perfect and integral authenticity, on a "Journey to the Arcana of the Night", or to the abyssal depths of his unconscious, until the end of his life. today never interrupted. Architect, filmmaker, photographer, he is part of a plethora of exceptional artists, great decipherers and "explorers of horizons", whose exponent is: Leonardo da Vinci and who have sought to give voice, plastic expression to essential mysteries. Between Romanticism, Metaphysical Painting and Surrealism, fueled by a modernity that Pop disguised as fleeting joy, Calvet’s painting truly builds a universe, a synthesis of the visible and the invisible , a universe of prodigious flowerings of the spirit, of landscapes and vast, dark and solar mental oceans, where we embark without a certain destination, seduced, like Ulysses, by the song of hidden sirens, an invitation to a port of the soul , in an initial and initiatory light that all great painting reveals. He is also a master of a paradoxical solitude that desires the other and only wants to be with others. in the other he fulfills his destiny of loving complicity with the mystery of the world, the artist has learned to scrutinize reality to better feel the unreal heart that beats in his bosom, audacious navigator, "naut of the impossible" , he, his own and best exegete, guiding our fearful steps towards the horizon of all miracles. Because Life is It is the territory of miracle and exaltation only. permitted to simple people and poets.