Exhibition “The ways of Creation”

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The artist born in the city of Porto, Luísa Gonçalves, inaugurates the painting and drawing exhibition "The Ways of Creation", a work about the world of hazel trees, on March 11, at 4pm, at the Árvore Cooperative.

Luísa Gonçalves and her work, which has won several awards in the area of plastic arts since 1970 and until the present day, is described thus by Nuno Higino, professor of Sociology and writer, " (...) it was this element, apparently accessory, which most interested Luísa Gonçalves. She certainly took a long time to study the world of hazelnut trees. She photographed, she drew: the shrub and its fruits. And she took notes especially on the last capsule, the outer one. A good number of the works on show are variations on the bracts that surround the hazelnut, which are green at first and brownish when ripe. The hazelnut is a shrub that exists in abundance in Beiras, namely in Mata da Margaraça. It may have been there, in the places of its origin, that Luísa found the inspiration for this exhibition (...)

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