It recently opened a small exhibition of the work of this artist of Madeira, rank in the Hall of Prazeres in Calheta.
Any excuse is good to address the work of Lourdes de Castro, to talk about her very personal world. It is an artwork that is based, according to the study of Marcia Oliveira, "Lourdes de Castro, a path of shadow," an aesthetic line associated with the "readymade," Duchamp, producing collages, assemblages and objects painted with aluminum paint, which emerged from a three-dimensional horizontal or vertical space. It was this that led her to what would become the core of his artistic activity: a constant search around the shade. The contours of the objects painted with aluminum paint would eventually lead to the first shadows made by the artist in serigraphy. Posteriorly, these shadows initial acquire new forms, beginning with the projected shadows and contours and passing the "Great Herbarium of Shadows" or its known "Family Albums", started in the sixties and continue today to be completed. "A phase that longtime friend and gallerist, Arlete Maria Alves da Silva, accompanied and recalls with emotion, "besides being drop-dead gorgeous, always managed to create a magical world. She was a determining factor in my life, because we can be happy and make others happy with very little. "Her work is proof of that, continues "there is a stripped to the essentials. She began by joining everyday objects such as spoons, ladles of soup and paints it with silver paint. Then she began to paint only the contours of the parts and increasingly was only the shadow of everything. I still am extremely touched by this clearance. "
The genesis of his work reflects her point of view, her intimate theater that manipulates with great simplicity and humility, because as Lourdes Castro recently said, "no one cares about the shadows, they are discarding, always liked the unimportant things. I've chosen according my way. Everything is impermanent and there is no one like another. We need to be aware of things and not to repeat. "And this definition is what "breathes" thru her work, of the unchangeable that is immortalized in the matter and for the artist in the end is to understand that "we are nature. We are part of this world, there is no separation". She also claims that is not a mere vague concept, as it continues painting in her one hectare, "is my speech. My home, my life, my real work".
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