Graça Morais. Violence and grace.
Somogy| N° d'inventaire | 20650 |
| Format | 19 x 26.5 |
| Détails | 160 p., 60 ill., bound. |
| Publication | Paris, 2017 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782757212370 |
The work of Graça Morais (born in Vieiro, Portugal, in 1948) is vast, diverse and consists of multiple series and large formats from the 1970s to the present day. The works exhibited (1982-2016), mainly drawings, are a perspective on this totality, devoid of any intention of synthesis and reflecting the search for the clearest, but also the most subtle, clues to the fundamental themes of the artist and the spirit that inhabits them: the identity of the place where she was born, the region of Trás-os-Montes, the social and universal values she found there and which are the basis of her thought and action. In this distant land, in the north of Portugal, which suffers from the harshness of the climate and the cruelty of distance, abandonment and poverty, Graça Morais has drawn on an unparalleled iconography to express her representation of the world, to which she has remained faithful. The singular place of women in this place, in their condition of weakness and strength, author and victim of their destiny, endowed with a hybrid and transformative impulse is rendered by the persistent recourse to metamorphosis. The dialogue between painting and literature is another striking feature of the artist's work, and more particularly with some of the most important Portuguese literary authors of the 20th century: Miguel Torga, Nuno Júdice, José Saramago, Vasco Graça Moura, Agustina Bessa-Luís, Maria Velho da Costa, Pedro Tamen, Sophia de Mello Breyner and Manuel António Pina.
The work of Graça Morais (born in Vieiro, Portugal, in 1948) is vast, diverse and consists of multiple series and large formats from the 1970s to the present day. The works exhibited (1982-2016), mainly drawings, are a perspective on this totality, devoid of any intention of synthesis and reflecting the search for the clearest, but also the most subtle, clues to the fundamental themes of the artist and the spirit that inhabits them: the identity of the place where she was born, the region of Trás-os-Montes, the social and universal values she found there and which are the basis of her thought and action. In this distant land, in the north of Portugal, which suffers from the harshness of the climate and the cruelty of distance, abandonment and poverty, Graça Morais has drawn on an unparalleled iconography to express her representation of the world, to which she has remained faithful. The singular place of women in this place, in their condition of weakness and strength, author and victim of their destiny, endowed with a hybrid and transformative impulse is rendered by the persistent recourse to metamorphosis. The dialogue between painting and literature is another striking feature of the artist's work, and more particularly with some of the most important Portuguese literary authors of the 20th century: Miguel Torga, Nuno Júdice, José Saramago, Vasco Graça Moura, Agustina Bessa-Luís, Maria Velho da Costa, Pedro Tamen, Sophia de Mello Breyner and Manuel António Pina.