“Once upon a time there was a man who dreamed and played with the dreams he dreamed” Eurico, 1950 The Portuguese Screen Printing Center opens on May 10th in its gallery at CCB, at 6:30 pm, an exhibition by Eurico Gonçalves entitled Dádá-Zen: Homages, which highlights the artist's 80th birthday. The exhibition is developed around “inevitable encounters”, according to the artist, with personalities he admires, from his youth and throughout his life, and which he assumes as primordial references evoked in his written, drawn and painted work. This dialogue gave rise to an installation and seven editions of original screen prints by Eurico, tributes to some of the exponents, Portuguese and foreign, of 20th century poetry and art: Almada Negreiros, Alfred Jarry, Carlos Calvet, Cruzeiro Seixas, Fernando Pessoa, Mário Cesariny and Mário de Sá-Carneiro. About the exhibition, writes art critic Maria João Fernandes: “Dada and Zen, are, once again, in this exhibition, the inspiring references of the Master Calí Photographer Eurico Gonçalves who in a recent book developed the implications of this founding duet of his and contemporary imagination. Dada, one of the most emblematic and inspiring movements of modernity (1916-1922), joins the surrealist irreverence, the cult of chance, the absurd, irony, practicing the fusion between literature and painting. To this subversive and renewing impetus, Eurico's work adds the inspiration of the East and the Zen spirit, which also defends the escape from conventions and the freedom of the creative power that connects to everything that is; It is natural and spontaneous in a universe where opposites complement each other. Eurico Gonçalves, whose youthful work was marked by surrealism, admits, in his work, There was a long journey, other influences, from abstract expressionism to informalism: Degottex, Hartung, Michaux, Pollock, Wols among many others, the vein from which he would drink, in the wake of Apollinaire and Picabia, visual poetry. Fertile contaminations, analogies between literature and painting, between painting and music. Analogies recognized by Picabia regarding the works of his Cubist and Orphic period: "the image translates memories and evocations, "subtly, like musical chords", "representations of an idea, of nostalgia, of a fugitive impression." Eurico, a poet, also listens to the primitive sources of modern art in the tributes he dedicates to Almada Negreiros (1893-1970), Alfred Jarry (1873-1907), Carlos Calvet (b.1928), Cruzeiro Seixas (b. 1920), Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), Mário Cesariny (1923-2006) and Mário de Sá-Carneiro (1890-1916), poets and painters , painters and poets who have as a common denominator genius and passion for the word with all its magical virtualities who today find an extraordinary plastic expression in the seven screen prints on display in the current exhibition Another highlight of Eurico's creation, morning chant of a written painting that has been sprouting from the soul of a child artist and Zen sage who is faithful to himself and to his life. essence of a magical poetic thought that is Among us is an exceptional performer.” Maria João Fernandes, Art Critic, is member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics)