Álvaro Lapa
Álvaro Lapa - Graphic Work
May 14, 2019 - June 2, 2019
CPS no CCB
In the CPS Gallery at CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém, there will be Open from 14 May and until 2 June 2019, an exhibition of the graphic work of Álvaro Lapa< /strong>, represented by the series entitled: “Quixote in the Bastille” which plastically and metaphorically stages historical figures such as Cleopatra, Francis of Assisi, or Mozart, or legend As beautiful and fantastic as Sinbad. Álvaro Lapa (1939-2006), an admittedly self-taught artist, began his training in Philosophy and held his first solo exhibition in 1964, in Lisbon.
Creator of a very original and particular system of plastic signs between abstraction and European and North American expressionism and surrealism, he is the creator of a very original and particular system of plastic signs. Considered one of the biggest names of the second half of the Portuguese 20th century.
Art critic (A.I.C.A.) Maria João Fernandes wrote about Álvaro Lapa's painting: “A language of non-preconceived signs that seem to emerge directly from the sources of the unconscious, without apparent affiliation with the sources of the real, characterizes its informalism, encompassing a figuration playing freely with abstract backgrounds and codes, and establishes the link with a surrealist lineage to art. to which we can add many other data that mark the personality of the artist and his work, a caustic and tormented humor, a way of thinking and writing through images and painting with words, a visual philosophy, a plastic poetics that proposes us a cautious and complicit exploration”.
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.
