Between June 5th and July 20th, the gallery of the Portuguese Screen Printing Center at CCB hosts the exhibition “Tanta foi a Tormenta e a Vontade ” of recent graphic work by José by Guimarães, including works from the series Hong Kong, Brazil, Inframundos and Oceanos >.

The exhibition is motivated by a special new screen printing that gives title to the title exhibition, a landmark of the CPS editions, evoking the well-known verse from the poem "Prece", from Mensagem by Fernando Pessoa. The silkscreen was printed on paper made with paper. hand exclusively for the edition, by the renowned Casa Meirat, with heavy weight and a laser watermark of the artist's name on each copy. The edition is Limited, numbered and signed by the artist. Highlighting the importance of this screen printing, the Diary of the Edition was also published, a book with texts and images that describe the entire execution process. of the work, a valuable contribution to reaffirm screen printing as a humanized and creative method.

About the work of Joséé de Guimarães, writes Maria João Fernandes, art critic (AICA – International Assoc. of Art Critics):

“ The artist has always paid special attention to art. graphic work, giving it a remarkable quality that the present edition, inspired by the «Message» by Fernando Pessoa, also documents. Screen printing accompanies and expresses the formal and poetic aspects of its universe, marked by a joy and exuberance that evoke primitive art. A kind of dance of aspects, where through the fragmentation and movement of forms, accentuated by vibrant primary colors, a lost, paradisiacal totality is reconstituted, the sense of hope and the sense of hope. what the poem talks about, against the black background of an ancestral and fatal longing. The hidden presence of poetry and myth, feeding the intricacies of civilization, which Guimar´es also reveals, with humor and the fantasy of the combinatorial game of its colorful forms that seem inexhaustible like the forms of the world.”

“The work of Guimarães in the various expressions it assumes, painting, engraving, sculpture, assemblage, is unique. first and foremost a language, it is based on the desire to communicate, which in his case was fulfilled in the dissemination that the painter carried out by his own hands, of his work, abroad, becoming He is our most international artist. This is proven by the many exhibitions he has held, individual and collective, in several countries in Europe, China, Japan and Mexico and his impressive bibliography that includes prestigious foreign authors. The French state, the Belgian state, Museums in S. Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the Akemi Foundation in Japan, the European Parliament and the Serralves Foundation have acquired his works.”

“Through a totalizing and original language, Guimarães brings together the unconscious and the conscious, the archaic world and the contemporary world, presenting us, like all great artists, a coherent alternative and inexhaustible to the real, to reality. one-dimensional society of contemporary alienation. É This is the universal nature of his work, which makes it a unique case of the «latest trends in art today» (Gillo Dorfles).”