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Ilhas Desconhecidas

Ilhas Desconhecidas

Cruzeiro Seixas

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Screen print
Fabriano Tiepolo 290gr Paper
Image Size: 30,5x39,5 cm
Total Size: 50x70 cm
No. of Colors: 23
Date: 2004
200 units
Ref.: S0595

Here there is no Space for the Sea

"For Breton, it is in dreams and in their wonderful hopes that man announces himself" wrote Alquié, the philosopher of surrealism. A statement that applies to the world work by Cruzeiro Seixas, exponent of Portuguese Surrealism, considered as a whole and also this image for screen printing created especially in the context of the demonstrations that marked the 20th anniversary of the Centro Português de Serigraphy, such as the exhibition ; of his works, which he titled: "Here there is no room for the sea." An exhibition in which the artist decided to intervene on his own images and those of other authors, freely associating fragments that take on new forms and new meanings. Game of the forms of the world and its changing aspects, dialogue between the real and the unreal, between the conscious, reason and dreams, blue continent, where the white figures of a loving expectation are cut out. A white moon, a boat that forgot to sail, a star that is also a star. bird. Figures of a secret where there is no secret. There is room for the sea, because the real sea is the sea. This is the warm, fresh horizon of dreams.

Cruzeiro Seixas

Dean of Portuguese art and one of the great names of Portuguese and European Surrealism, Cruzeiro Seixas was born on December 3rd, 1920 in Amadora. In his long artistic journey, he has an expressionist phase, another neo-realist one and another, beginning in the late 40s, more prolonged, in which he integrates the Portuguese Surrealist movement, alongside Mário Cesariny, Carlos Calvet, António Maria Lisboa, Pedro Oom and Mário Henrique Leiria.

He was one of its precursors and considered one of its greatest exponents, considering that the fantastic surrealism visible in his work was inspired by the work of the artist De Chirico. He is the author of a vast work in the field of drawing and painting, but also in poetry, sculpture and objects/sculpture.

In 1952 he moved to Angola, where he held several individual exhibitions and projects in the area of museology. In 1964, fleeing the colonial war that was going on, he decided to undertake a trip to Europe. Along its path, it has numerous individual and group exhibitions in important museums and galleries, in Portugal and abroad, with several prizes and distinctions, including a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in 1968 and the SocTip “Artist of the Year” award, in 1989.

In 1999 he donated his entire collection to the Cupertino de Miranda Foundation with a view to setting up a Study Center and Museum of Surrealism. In October 2012, the Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores awarded the Medal of Honor to Cruzeiro Seixas in recognition of his long and solid artistic career as a painter and poet. With the same aim, Galerias Perve and the Municipality of Oeiras inaugurated the exhibition "Tribute to Cruzeiro Seixas - A step forward in Africa", at the Cultural Center of Palácio do Egipto, in Oeiras.

In 2018 he was honored at the age of 97 by President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and by the Centro Português de Serigrafia, editor of his work for many years, which launched, on the occasion, the Catalog of Graphic Works and Multiples of Art by the artist.

His work is widely known and easily identified, for its personal and non-transferable mark, and for the distinctive character that it imprints on all his pieces. He is represented in important collections such as the Chiado Museum, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the National Library of Portugal, the Tomar Library, the Cupertino de Miranda Foundation, the Machado de Castro Museum in Coimbra, the Castelo Branco Museum and the António Prates Foundation.

He passed away in November 2020, close to completing his centenary.