THE DREAMS OF MATTER

Master Humberto Marçal is Since 1994, he has been one of those largely responsible for the success of the engraving and lithography editions of the Portuguese Screen Printing Center. Today he presents us once again, in an engraving in two color variants, his universe under the sign of the poetic dialogue with nature that inspires most of his creations. A poetics of the four elements highlighted by the immense richness of a palette that illuminates with alchemical gold.

In his work, the gesture associated with this rare sensitivity to nature color, reveals the intimacy and mystery of the earth, the secret germination of life, the forms manifesting a solar and vertical impetus that unites the destinies of man and the Cosmos, the ultimate meaning of creation. and its aesthetics. In the words of Maria João Fernandes in Preface to the recent exhibition Os Sonhos da Materia: “Humberto Marçal’s paintings and engravings are true poems immortalizing unique moments of a dialogue between sensitive souls, that of the artist and the of an accomplice nature, equally dreamy. A world of shadows and a vibrant, gently enchanted light, a magical duet of a night that shares with it the magic and beauty of a wonderful land, holding the mystery of its origin and its destiny. Delicate, magical, intimate vibrations of nature and its secrets that the gesture makes explode in myriads of intimate fire.”