To mark the first World Day of the Portuguese Language instituted by UNESCO for the 5th of May 2020, CPS presents the new special edition of the artist Cruzeiro Seixas entitled “Ruins of the Future City - Homage to Mário de Sá-Carneiro". Edited in partnership with the Cupertino de Miranda Foundation, this screenprint is associated with the official date, the year of the artist's centenary and the 35 years of CPS - Centro Português de Serigrafia.

The launch is scheduled for the date that marks, May 5th, here on the CPS website.

“Cruzeiro Seixas is a free and irreverent creator who exalts love and poetry to give the world imagined dreams. And he does it like someone who breathes, expanding surreal fantasies that, after all, give rise to new realities”, says CPS director João Prates. Describing himself as a common man with a passion for things, Cruzeiro Seixas, this year completing 100 years of life, has long been admiring the poet: "In me, Mário de Sá-Carneiro is always present, and with his poetry. One of the poems I like to recite the most, Quasi, has to do with what I'm going through”.

The screenprint was intended to accompany the exhibition of Cruzeiro Seixas scheduled to open on 5th of May at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, postponed by the restrictions imposed by Covid-19. According to the Portuguese Ambassador at UNESCO, António Sampaio da Nóvoa, "it would be an extraordinary moment to honor this singular master of art and life. His art, his presence, is so necessary to us that we cannot even imagine what we would be without his extraordinary talent, without his incomparable ability to surprise us".

The exhibition will take place on a date to be announced, with the publication of a catalog by the Cupertino de Miranda Foundation which features this remarkable edition. Marlene de Oliveira, director of this Foundation, says that "the choice of this screenprint shows the combination of several arts, where a Master in Fine Arts pays tribute to a figure of Portuguese Literature. The exhibition will also open in Paris with the work that originated this screenprint, that belongs to the Foundation".