DRAWING – José Manuel dos Santos

To draw is to lend the world a hand, to allow it to measure itself and to merit itself, to self-correct and to self-accrue. The line born of such a hand marks it, constrains it, frees it, concentrates it, expands it, stretches it, disperses it, sidetracks it, blasts...

Wind, water, mountain. Ana Matos

Wind, water, mountain. Perhaps even fire. Air, plenty of air, spaces becoming open, free from the representation of the visible world. It is, then, from the realm of the invisible, the dream, that their meaning – or rather, their meanings – emerge. They are...

Raúl Perez – Her hand follows her heart

… Her hand follows her heart as it draws, allowing everything within it that has no voice or recognition to reveal itself. This work disturbs us by the force of its truthfulness and, at the same time, touches us with its extreme simplicity and purity.  ...

Nuno Faria – The aerial map

The set of drawings that Teresa Gonçalves Lobo exhibits at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Funchal [Museum of Contemporary Art of Funchal] reflects an expanded and hyper-sensitive relationship with her sur- roundings, with the things in the world. This relationship...

Miguel Matos – Teresa Gonçalves Lobo, The drawing read and felt

“When we see a line on a canvas or on a paper, we read it, that is, we follow it with the eyes, even unconsciously, as we would do with the dancer. Go through it this way, throughout a mental possession, means to live it in imagination.” – René Huyghe The...