Rui Chafes, sculptor, received this Friday from the President of the Republic, the Pessoa Prize 2015. A prize against a society “without culture and without memory.”
Before an audience which, in addition to many friends, were also figures such as the President of the Republic, the Minister of culture or the Minister Justice, Rui Chafes began with a warning:. “I hope you have taken coffee”
The report John Alexander in ceremony of the Pessoa Prize to the sculptor Rui Chafes
a warning for those who might be waiting for a short ceremony and a brief speech in which he repeated a idea:. “I do not know if I deserve this award probably never know and probably no one ever will know”
in Lisbon, at the Grand Auditorium of Culturgest, Rui Chafes received the Pessoa prize, an award with the name of poet and, after assigned to personalities of the sciences, history or philosophy, was first given to an artist of the sculpture area.
the prize for a job that guarantees the sculptor , has been done without the need to spotlight or distinctions, but still, even if alone, has little personal or revealing about the individuality of the artist.
“I have nothing personal to say or express in my work, no message to convey. It is an art to nothing. Also I do not care autobiographical art. I suspect a lot and am very allergic to works of art that speak of the artist’s personal problems and your life. I do not consider art a personal expression, “he stressed the artist.
Claiming to be” happy “by the distinction, Rui Chafes also stressed that the Pessoa Prize serve as a” call to refuse the possibility and society only material without culture and without memory “
First, referring to the award given to the carver, the head of state, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, said:.” It is a sign of recognition and example requirement. Recognition of the absolute uniqueness path as an artist, “also highlighting the fact that it is a work that is part of a” slow universe, dense, thought out, consistent in everything contrary to the idea of a show. “
During the ceremony, Francisco Pedro Balsemão, CEO of Impresa Group, read a statement sent by Francisco Pinto Balsemão, jury president of the Pessoa Prize – absent due to “the flu” – which was marked the fact that the first time the sculpture is covered by the jury:. “it was time,” wrote Balsemão
the ceremony was attended by the Minister of Culture, Luís Filipe Castro Mendes, the Secretary of State for Culture, Miguel Honoured and Fernando Medina, Mayor of Lisbon.
Pessoa Prize, worth 60,000 euros, aims to distinguish the work of a Portuguese citizen who has been highlighted over the last year , relevance and innovation in artistic life, literary or scientific.
Organized by Express and the Caixa Geral de Depósitos, the reward already distinguished, since 1897, scientists, architects, historians, painters, philosophers, writers. Among the winners are figures such as João Lobo Antunes, Vasco Graça Moura, José Cardoso Pires and Eduardo Lourenço.
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