Opening: April 10, 6:30 pm

In the gallery of theCentro Portugu&eacirc; >April 10th, at 6:30 pm, an exhibition of Recent linocuts by the Argentine artist Juan Sebastián Carnero.

The exhibition that will be held patent until May 5th, includes the presentation of the editions resulting from his artistic residency at Atelier CPS, in Lisbon, the city that inspired these works. Carnero, an expert in the technique of lost-matrix linocut, asserts in the current set of engravings, a style where figuration is the main element. geometrically refined almost to the point of to abstraction and combining it with attention to detail, the care and meticulous treatment of surfaces and a keen sense of perspective and chromatic harmonies between cold and warm tones of great poetic effect. The connection to Lisbon is within easy reach. clearly evident in works such as: À Beira-Mar, Perceço de Colina or Sete Ventos.

It is stated as a whole, according to art critic Maria João Fernandes (A.I.C.A. International Association and Art Critics) “a poetic and surreal atmosphere with a touch of art metaphysics, for example in the static figures that enigmatically profile themselves in Sete Ventos and the presence of a symbolic geometry in a labyrinthine explosion of suggestive and ambiguous forms evoking Escher's universe, another exponent of contemporary art”.

Creations by a true Master of international graphic work that can now be appreciated and even shared with you. May 5th at the CPS Gallery at the Belém Cultural Center.

 
April 13th (4pm-6pm) - The artist invites visitors to the exhibition to try the Linocut technique

Portuguese Screen Printing Center at CCB

Centro Cultural de Belém, store 7
Praça do Império 1449-003 Lisboa
Tel. 213 162 175   /  Times: every day from 10am to 9pm.

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Juan Sebastián Carnero (1981, Buenos Aires, Argentina) engraving artist, illustrator and university engraving professor in Buenos Aires, studied at the Gutenberg Foundation between 2004 and 2006 , at the Institute of Visual Arts of Lomas de Zamora between 2000 and 2007 and at IUNA (Degree in Visual Arts) between 2008 and 2010). He has been exhibiting since 2001 in exhibitions in his country and internationally.

In 2014 he participated in Tarragona, Spain, in the XXXV Congress of ex-libristas.

É researcher in color management in relief engraving.

Won acquisition awards at the Petorutti Museums, Artémio Alisio, Sivorí and Roverano. He held several solo exhibitions in Argentina, Spain and Portugal. Participated in dozens of group exhibitions.

He was selected and invited to exhibitions in Argentina, China, Denmark, Spain, France, Italy, Mexico, Panama, Portugal, Romania, Russia ;ssia and Taiwan.

He has works in collections in Argentina, Australia, Catalonia, Spain, the United States of America, France, Portugal and Switzerland. He created engravings and illustrations in Germany, Poland and Serbia. He directed engraving and ex-libris courses in Barcelona, (Catalonia), Galicia (Spain), Porto (Portugal), (Catalonia), Galicia (Spain), Porto (Portugal), Valparaíso (Chile), California ( USA) and Lisbon.

In February 2019, he was one of the artists invited byBody & Soul, Berlin Artist Magazine, for the creation of a work to celebrate 50 years of the song "Give Peace A Chance" composed by John Lennon.

There is an engraving published by the Amadora Engraving Association. The current editions were an initiative of the Portuguese Screen Printing Center in Lisbon (Portugal).