Julio Castro's art will be available to you. patent at the CPS - Portuguese Screen Printing Center, in an exhibition that includes around a dozen monotypes on voile (fluid, light and transparent fabric). Brazilian artist graduated in Plastic Arts from the Instituto das Artes UFRGS – Porto Alegre, Brazil, Julio Castro is from Porto Alegre, Brazil. Director/founder of Chave Mestra - Association of Visual Artists of Santa Teresa, Rio de Janeiro (neighborhood where the couple Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and Arpad Szenes lived). “Andante – Transit Spaces” is the exhibition project developed by Julio Castro at the CPS Ateliers in Lisbon. During his stay in the city, the artist collected impressions of the circulation area between his point of stay, the Ateliers and the CPS Gallery, with a proposal to map this intermediate space ;river. He produced image transfers in monotypes and screen printing, based on the relief of some surfaces along the way. A movement from “outside” to “inside” and therefore literally reflective. Regarding his work, Raul Motta, art critic (Rio de Janeiro) wrote: “After intensely practicing wood engraving and metal engraving, in parallel to painting, Julio Castro discovered in monotype the appropriate vehicle for painting. experimental drive that characterizes his artistic practice, his current works originating from systematic research into the countless possibilities of transmissibility of the image, its constitution through contacts, passages , changes of state, intercessions, interferences, contaminations... It's a matter of course. It is precisely through this permanent investigation of the mediations between the matrix and the support that the artist establishes a procedural logic that updates the traditional metier, generating a work permanently in search of new strategies for become effective in the world – either by appropriating supports other than paper, or by assuming an installation profile present in some exhibition projects.” This exhibition comes from an exchange that began last March between Chave Mestra and CPS, with Portuguese visual artist Maria Tomás exhibiting at Galeria Mauá, Rio of January. At the invitation of the CPS, Julio Castro now presents in Lisbon the result of his work carried out during his stay in Lisbon. The exhibition has the support of the Brazilian Ministry of Culture