New art exhibition

We’re very happy to invite you to our next group exhibition. The opening will be next Friday at 18h in Sala Bernardo Santareno, in Santarém. This exhibition shows work produced by 21 international members of the Create Portugal network. The network welcomes members from all nationalities and backgrounds, who wish to share their artistic practice as well as pursue the development and promotion of their work.

The title, Prisma Lusitano invites the discovery of various perspectives about the essence of Portuguese land and people. The artists reveal their individual experiences of living in Portugal, using a diverse range of mediums and styles. In particular painting, photography, digital design and works in 3D.

Esperamos a vossa visita :)

Sweden calling

 

Once again we went back to Sweden for some quality time with family and friends. Big thanks to Elea & Christian for driving by :)

By Jens Selin

Between you and me

 “I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.”  
                                                                                                              Fernando Pessoa in The Book of Disquiet

Golden fish  

by Francisca Ribeiro

for Between you and me series, photographic correspondance with the artist and dear friend Anna Bresolí.

The Please Captains & The Please Askers

From The New Kingdom series by Jens Selin

Close to Pegasus

 Silver blue series

 Francisca Ribeiro

" Pegasus was a winged horse that came out of Medusa when she was be-headed by Pereus. The Gorgon Medusa was once a beautiful Lybian princess. Because she was seduced by the sea god Poseidon in the temple consecrated to Athena, Athena transformed her into a monster. She had hair of serpents and anyone who looked at her face was turned into stone.
  After his birth, Pegasus lived on the Mount Helicon. One day, an ancient Greek hero whose name was Bellerophon believed that he could fly with Pegasus to Olympus, where the gods lived. To prevent him from doing that, Zeus sent a horsefly to bite Pegasus. Bellerophon lost control of his horse and fell back to Earth.
  Pegasus continued to fly alone and reached Olympus, where Zeus received him. Since then, he transports thunderbolts for Zeus, who placed his figure in the night sky in the constellation of the winged horse."

The Last Spanish Vacation, part 2

The concept of taking a vacation is a recent invention and has been developed through the last two centuries. Once the idea of travel and recreation was a luxury of wealthy people alone, taking a break from work for reasons other than weekly observance of the Sabbath, was frowned upon. In modern days we take it for granted, the well deserved break from work that allows us to charge the batteries for another year of work. With the current situation in Spain maybe vacation once again will be a luxury of the wealthy people alone.

By Jens Selin

Sweden ♥

It’s been a couple of years without using my first camera, an oldie Olympus. Oh how I missed it and I loved seeing Sweden through her, beautiful Sweden!!*

Francisca Ribeiro