The work of Domingos Mateus (b. 1961) really makes us question the limits between figuration and abstraction. In his painting and graphic work, objects, the recognizable elements of the world around us, are transformed into increasingly refined figures of an animated signal of an inner movement, creating the general effect of a almost abstract language. Suns, stars, leaves, hearts, as happens in his most recent silkscreen, with the title “A Feira da Minha Terra” they simply seem to levitate in the atmosphere of intense lyricism that marks their expression. É that the law that governs this planet is not that of gravity, but the same one that presides over gravity; poetry. From a code that establishes the principle of joy, according to Almada, the most serious thing in life. A blue hue, the color of dreams and imagination, expands in this enchanted horizon, where the figure of the human being seems absent when he is present. after all, the true recipient of this party that the artist offers us for the pure delight of our soul and the pleasure of our senses.
Maria João Fernandes
AICA – International Association of Art Critics