Sculptor Rui Chafes “thrilled and honored” with Pessoa Prize – Magazine Saturday

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The sculptor Rui Chafes, who received the Pessoa Prize, said he did not know if it deserves the award, but said “feel happy, very honored and thrilled” by the award to have been awarded .

“I do not know if I deserve this award probably never know, probably nobody ever will know, looking at the list of award-winning personalities, researchers, creators, thinkers from various fields of science and the humanities. and looking at the remarkable list of people who make up the jury, I’m not sure to live up to people prior to me, nor the expectations that my work will continue to create, “began by saying the honoree, who spoke for about 20 minutes.

the ceremony was attended by the President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, executive chairman of the Impresa Group, Francisco Pedro Balsemão, on his father’s behalf, Francisco Pinto Balsemão, who chairs the jury, but meeting with “the flu,” he said, and even Alvaro Nascimento, president of the board of directors of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, which co-sponsors the Pessoa Prize.

the setting for 29. th ceremony of the award was the room Culturgest.

In attendance were, among others, the Ministers of Culture and Justice, respectively, Luís Castro Mendes and Francisca Van Dunem, Secretary of State for Culture, Miguel Honoured, the Mayor of Lisbon, Fernando Medina, and the president of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Artur Santos Silva.

the Prize Person “is a landmark initiative in our country, the seriousness, impartiality, guiding its course,” said the sculptor , 49, adding that its annual punctuality “will us giving references and guiding in the hope of a world where there are only people transformed into machine parts, managed by paradigmatic and destructive rules of the world economy.”

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