Manuel Cargaleiro's painting creates a threshold of enchantment, a horizon of bright and murmuring colors that appears, sensually present, at the edge of the street. window of the wonderful. The painter denies the obstacles that the visible poses to his work. freedom of the spirit, to the evasion of the soul. It returns to the visible the sources of original poetry, its primitive purity, the sparkling beauty of a newly created world. The present engravings, in two color variants, blue and red, founding colors of the imagination, evoking water and fire, give us back all the poetry and splendor of a real world fed by the symbol and through poetry. The reds raise the passion of life, an initial and flowering tree, a fire destined for life. supply of the first substances. In the blues are the details of the real, there is a balconies and tiny hanging gardens, rivers crossing the paths of dawn, meandering between hills and returning to the hills. origin. And small signs, writings that reflect ecstasy, imprisoning all the charm, movements of an intimate light that nature loves and reenchants.