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Magda Delgado

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  • Lithography
  • Fabriano Artistico GS 300gr Paper
  • Image Size: 37 x 50,5 cm
  • Total Size: 56 x 77 cm
  • No. of Colors: 2
  • Date: 2019
  • 50 units
  • Ref.: L35695

Stained lithograph

 

NATURE AND ALCHEMY

Magda Delgado was born in Lisbon where she remained until her death. 2013 and has since spent living abroad. Graduated in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, scholarship holder from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2011) is studying. She is represented in several public collections and has held numerous individual and group exhibitions. Since 2018 he has been working between England and Lisbon. According to the artist, the feeling of inadequacy in the modern world is spreading. at the origin of a conflict that his works manifest. Nature as an absolute and source of beauty, transcendence and redemption began to inspire his creations.

In this two-color lithograph with stain, rather than a “post-apocalyptic vision”, we witness a process of dissolution, a kind of dark phase of alchemy which prepares the advent of a solar transfiguration capable of returning man to life. nature and nature its nature.

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Magda Delgado

Natural from Lisbon, the city where he lived until his death. 2013, Magda Delgado is graduated in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. Represented in several public collections such as the Casa-Museu Medeiros e Almeida and Casa Fernando Pessoa, she received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2011) and brings together a relevant set of of individual and group exhibitions.

With the financial crisis he left Portugal and lived in several countries, namely England, Germany and Luxembourg. In 2018 he returned to England and now works between Nottinghamshire and Lisbon.

According to the artist, the feeling of inadequacy and conflict with the modern world fostered a discord that manifests itself in her creations. Concepts such as Absolute; Mystery as a mystical vision; Asceticism; Human Condition; Beauty as a mindset and solace; Abyss; Transcendence and Redemption are aspects that are part of his work in the form of Nature-without-Man.

His work process began to focus substantially on Ekphrasis as a method, a “doing” with an ascetic attitude, as well as a process for studying previous procedures. In part, it is a reaction to the It is a postmodern heritage that separates the artist's body from the fabrication of the work of art itself and the presentation of his individual gestures to the artist. society.

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