French artist Xavier, grandnephew of Picasso, returns to the Portuguese Screen Printing Center with the exhibition Le Jardin Circonflexe, almost twenty years after his first exhibition at CPS.

Descendant of a large family of artists in which he was introduced to the practice of engraving from an early age, Xavier, painter, ceramist, engraver and with recent activity as a filmmaker, where he incorporates drawing and painting , his graphic work currently consists of more than 550 creations.

The exhibition, which opens on May 26th at 6pm in the CPS gallery at CCB and is open today. patent until June 13th, presents a selection of his most recent works. It also includes a second exhibition center at the CPS Headquarters, which can be visited on the same dates.

The works were created by the artist in the historic Parisian ateliers of René Tazé in engraving and by Clot Bramsen and Stéphane Guilbaud in lithography, in the line of dialogue that has been established with mythical ateliers such as Lacourière-Frélaut where Matisse, Rouault, Picasso, Sonia Delaunay, Chagall passed , Giacometti, Miró or Henry Moore.

According to art critic Maria João Fernandes, “in this present exhibition a magnificent set of works, an expression of the invention of art. strength and mastery, gives; It forms Xavier's poetic universe, under the sign of lyricism, the wonderful and the surreal, one of the great bottom lines of contemporary art. Technical mastery, well documented in the large format lithography that forms the catalog cover and aesthetic maturity of an artist who absorbed the lessons of great Masters such as Picasso and Miró, to feed and inspire the Its very particular style, a mix of naivety and plastic and poetic wisdom.”

About his childhood and relationship with Picasso, Xavier responds: “When I was a child and I showed him a drawing, he He looked carefully. Work was a way of getting in touch with others and he got along very well with those who knew how to do something, he was fascinated by other people's knowledge. I lived in an artists' environment, where there was a lot of painting, not just painting. not his, but the Dadaists, the Surrealists, the poets... I got to know the paintings of Léger, Miró or Picasso as a child like anyone else who is studying. You're used to seeing the paintings in your grandmother's house, in the most natural way.” (Interview by La Vanguardia, 2017)

From the Museum of Contemporary Engraving in Spain, partner of the exhibition, to the Portuguese Center for Screen Printing, Xavier's work once again brings incomparable magic to Lisbon of his creations that are already It is a reference in contemporary art and engraving.

The exhibition is in progress. patent until June 13th with free entry.

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