José Pádua, Serrão de Faria

Lisbon Revisited

June 22, 2012 - July 25, 2012
CPS Sede

With the title "Lisbon Revisited", the city that has already been inspired painters such as Mário Eloy, Almada Negreiros, Carlos Botelho or Lima de Freitas is once again present in the world of plastic arts, this time in an exhibition of graphic work, at the Portuguese Screen Printing Center (Rua dos Industriais, 6, S. Bento) open until July 25, 2012. The exhibition presents the most recent engraving editions by José Pádua and Serrão de Faria, where each copy is produced. intervened hand by the artist, revealing a real and imaginary Lisbon, a city loved by poets and a privileged theme in current art. Complex and innocent, the stage for fantasies and the play of light on the clarity of the shapes that are outlined in the gold of the day and on the banks of a blue that is beautiful. that of happy dreams of an immobile, alchemical and solar youth in the creation (oil-painted engravings) of Serrão Faria. A playful and luxuriously colored labyrinth, a puzzle of emotions that the eye collects and the palette makes sparkle between rubies and waters of an eternal spring in the compositions (watercolored engravings) by José José Padua.