PANCHO GUEDES – VITRUVIUS MOZAMBICANUS//
CURATOR: PEDRO GUEDES//
MUSEU COLECÇÃO BERARDO, LISBON MAY 18 – AUGUST 16, 2009//
Pancho Guedes’ exhibition brings together his prodigious, surprisingly varied and original oeuvre of drawings, paintings and sculptures and shows how these contributed to the forms, ideas and spirit of the many different and personal architectures he created. His connection with Africa and, above all, with Mozambique allowed Pancho to liberate himself from the constraints and restrictive ideas that dominate the mainstream of the art world.
PANCHO GUEDES – VITRUVIUS MOZAMBICANUS//
CURATOR: PEDRO GUEDES//
MUSEU COLECÇÃO BERARDO, LISBON MAY 18 – AUGUST 16, 2009.
Pancho Guedes’ exhibition brings together his prodigious, surprisingly varied and original oeuvre of drawings, paintings and sculptures and shows how these contributed to the forms, ideas and spirit of the many different and personal architectures he created. His connection with Africa and, above all, with Mozambique allowed Pancho to liberate himself from the constraints and restrictive ideas that dominate the mainstream of the art world.
Pancho’s architectures range from extravagantly opulent and personal explorations of space and form (in which the visual arts blend and merge with one another without discernable boundaries) to austere, sparse buildings designed to meet demanding and stringent financial conditions. In every case the resulting creations are in no way diminished by the circumstances that bring them to life. All his works are imbued with distinct individual souls that speak and smile proudly even when diminished through age and rough use.
This exhition will present a vision of the most striking work of Pancho Guedes in Maputo, having as a reference work the building Smiling Lion.
