A SONG TO THE DAY POSSIBLE HARMONY

Fernando Machiana, self-taught, is part of the project together with Mestre Malangatana. missing, of the artists who placed Moçambique on the route of world art. The town of Matalana where he was born, in the district of Marracuene, is proud of the painter who made his profession a true craft for the dignification of man. Founding member of the Matalana Cultural Center promotes activities in the field of visual arts and encourages young people with a talent for painting. If Malangatana knew how to impose the genius of an expression that sprang from the mythical and historical roots of a people, Machiana, drawing inspiration from the wisdom and authenticity of this lesson plastic and poetic, created in his honor the song of a nationality that, like the great Mozambican artist, does not belong to any country, but to a universal heritage of the human. In this individually intervened engraving, he conveys to us this ancestral image that is simultaneously innocent and magical, of a humanity dedicated to the simple tasks of a happy daily life and welcomed into the bosom of a beneficent and complicit nature that fosters this kind of happiness. ;ntico à; possible harmony.

Maria João Fernandes

Nov. 2018