Testemunhos
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Alexandre O’Neill: Poema para ESPIGA Pinto (Galeria 111, 1969)
ESPIGA PINTO Desprende-te e separa-te, tu que tens de nascer. Centrífugo, não faças gravitação alheia. Bem sei que a tribo te vigia o percurso e se exorbitas, ralha-te. Que queres? Antes nascer do caos que da ordem da tribo. Brandem-te a regra, mostram-te a medida. Que sabem eles disso para além do colarinho? Ralham-nos a todos, mas, depois, trocam…
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Testimonial/Testemunho: Serafim Ferreira (1939-2015)
“Unlike Resende, for whom the Alentejo was above all a discovery at a certain stage in his life, Espiga Pinto’s paintings are a vision of an ‘encounter’ with deep roots, still an echo of the Vila Viçosa of his childhood and adolescence. Yes, Espiga’s work is a powerful reminder of distance and fulfilment in his…
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Testimonial/Testemunho: Calvet de Magalhães (1913-1975)
“With the movement of time, the mathematics of our busy century, the artist destroys the security that people thought they could find within the real and the rational. There is nothing safe any more, and even less than everything that which is transitory. As new form of media, today’s art is interested in man. Man…