- Sold Out
- Photography
- LS White Velvet 270gr Fine Art Paper
- Image Size: 47x70,5 cm
- Total Size: 55x78 cm
- Date: 2024
- 20 units
- Ref.: F36930
"The island of Porto Santo is known, above all, for the extensive sandy beach that occupies almost the entire southern front of its territory. However, there is a unique geography made up of several peaks starting from the from which perspectives on the ocean can be seen. The horizon observed, from these elevated points, is always diverse, changing and unrepeatable. diverse and labyrinthine visuality of an entire planet." Duarte Belo
Critical notes
VARIATIONS ON INFINITY
The series we present today, by Duarte Belo who was born in Lisbon in 1968, dedicated to the The island of Porto Santo reflects its natural connection to the island of Porto Santo. poetry, as the son of the great poet Ruy Belo, developed in dialogue with other great names in our culture, such as Mário Cesariny, Maria Gabriela Llansol, Miguel Torga or Ruy Belo himself. With a background ;o in architecture, the following stand out from his published work: Portugal — O Sabor da Terra (1997-1998), Portugal Património (2007-2008), Portugal Luz e Sombra (2012) and the trilogy composed of Caminhar Oblíquo, After the Road and Viagem Maior (2020). In fact, today we are faced with the vision of a unique poetics of space, with its masterful games of light and shadow, which would please Gaston Bachelard and also Kandinsky, who spoke about the virtualities of the line that in this In this case, in a simple horizontal way, it gives us back all the nuances of an ever-changing horizon, infinite in its variations, but where they are mirrored in the author's words “all the diverse and labyrinthine visuality of an entire planet.”
Maria João Fernandes
AICA - International Association of Art Critics
