Artist Nuno Cera back to look at the Amadeo landscape – Daily News – Lisbon

Artist was invited by Helena de Freitas, curator of the exhibition Amadeo de Souza Cardoso (1887-1918), from tomorrow at the Grand Palais in Paris to add a contemporary point of view. He returned to the artist’s landscapes.

The work of Nuno Cera is called Tour d ‘Horizon and is a triptych of screens that will debiting pictures and images they are opened by a sentence of Amadeo Souza Cardoso, the artist who is dedicated this exhibition at the Grand Palais. “Je travaille d’après la nature”. Work from nature.

Nuno Cera, the author invited by Helena de Freitas, curator of the exhibition, to work the Amadeo Souza Cardoso landscape. “It started as a work on natural and is also on the Portuguese countryside”, explains the author, on display.

“I read a lot, started at his house,” he explains. He walked through the kitchen Manhufe house, near Amarante, which remains intact and in connection with this name, Manhufe kitchen. He was in the studio that belonged to the artist, empty. Filmed the Marão and Tamega, Brittany and Paris, fleetingly.

“Amadeo made the glorious landscape, but it is hard to find,” found Nuno Cera on his travels. “The mountains are some hills” found. “It’s not photogenic,” he says, as images, poetic, succeeding the three screens, one by one. See the house, the mountains Paysage, a solitary white house that evokes that Amadeo paints.

“I had some chosen landscapes and walked in search of that atmosphere,” says the artist, adding. “It’s a video of atmospheres, did not interest me make a very straightforward thing”

Tour d’Horizon , the name chosen for the installation, came “logo at the beginning, “says the artist. He stayed because “continued to make sense.” Refers in French to all that you see on the horizon.

Manhufe, Brittany, Paris

resulted from four work trips the Manhufe, “one of them for a week,” three days in Brittany, where you interested to capture images of the Hotel Keriolet where de Souza-Cardoso Amadeo was and, briefly, in Paris.

Only one plan came to the work of Nuno Cera – the painted advertisement on the wall with a moon and semi-missing words. The choice of the artist’s intentional and stresses the obvious. Despite having lived eight years in Paris, “Amadeo did not paint very Paris”. The Eclypse wax is unique. The word appears in one of the last works by Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso and the panel began to be recovered recently in Boulevarddes Batignolles, and for which Helena de Freitas warned Nuno Cera, after having discovered during his research around the work of Amadeo.