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Comments about
his work
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His painting reveals a search for interior and exterior signs, in
constant dialogue between light and matter, between the voices of
the soul and the almost carnal forms that seem to inhabit some of
his paintings as living and autonomous organisms. Throughout all his
work passes, in unmistakable tones, an expressed wish or an uncontained
dream of freedom and harmony, that echoes in all of us."
(Paulo Machado de Jesus)
"In the intimacy of his work...
the minimum gesture reflects a personal religion or healthy skepticism
and a fragile equilibrium in the stroke that defines the frisson of
his own vertiginous life, and is an eternal rebirth to the daily exercise
of meditation, as in gestured Zen... evoking, in the symbolism of
his wise strokes, the memory of the gothic mirages of Manuelism in
search of those spiritual Indias where, in vortexes of light, is sighted
the hope of redemption..."
(José Bivar)
"They are pathetic pilgrimages through
oneiric, erotic and sentimental landscapes, an almost obsessive fascination
by the curvilinear escape, alluding to a deliberately interminable
spatiality.
"... The solitary grandness of the interior landscapes
drapes itself in capricious forms that the prodigious luxuriousness
of sensibility and imagination creates, a bit each day, a bit in each
work."
(Vicente Borges de Sousa)
"... Pieces of dreams, gardens
for our eyes to wander in, obscure remembrances, intermittent illuminations,
fugitive words, windows of his soul, his natural breathing... Luis'
painting is encounter and divergence, a certain dose of solitude,
an echo, a tenuous bridge, the light of dawn, the discreet undulating
of the sea in the landscape dryness, the border between yesterday
and today, a journey project."
(Cruzeiro Seixas)
Luis Athouguia was born in Portugal in 1953. He has Certification
in Arts and Design by IADE, Lisbon. He exhibits since 1983, in more
than two hundred important events.
He was distinguished with the VESPEIRA DRAWING PRIZE OF PORTUGAL in
1997.
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