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October 8, 2008

Carlos Alexandre (painter) - (pintor)

The very urban creator' spirit of Carlos Alexandre roams through Lisbon, Paris, Hamburg, Chicago, New York and other great cities.

New York, Manhattan (painting)

Soon after he internalizes the collected images in his photographic unconscious and transforms them into recent memories. Or old, I say, once the vibration of colours and movement is untimely, sometimes more definite and understandable than others but always the same acute and poetic look catching the intense instant which escapes through the circumstantial landscape afterwards.

I also talk on a pastoral Carlos that catches from the rural world other movements necessarily slower and more telluric but the same expressionism pouring out colours and tones easily incoming from nature.

Armando Taborda (painting)

I still stress the drawings and paintings he creates quite easily in format A4 like someone shedding leaves of a calendar or notebook as they were his disguised heteronyms acrobatically jumping out from the paper leaves limited space in the ludic exercise of whom can waste time, talent and inspiration.

Like a few other national artists of high merit and quality he is less known and divulged in his own homeland. However, it could be the other way round. For instance, a Carlos Alexandre so famous as the prolix and fantastic American LeRoy Neiman that expresses himself with the same splendid modern and difficult style where the movement is the most important and visible element of a master-piece, fading away when surprised by our attentive and moved contemplation.

Jazz Music in Manhattan (illus…

O urbaníssimo génio criador de Carlos Alexandre deambula por Lisboa, Paris, Hamburgo, Chicago, Nova Iorque e outras grandes urbes. Depois interioriza as imagens recolhidas no seu inconsciente fotográfico e transforma-as em memórias recentes. Ou antigas, digo eu, já que a vibração de cores e movimento se mantém intempestiva, por vezes mais definida e perceptível do que outras, mas sempre o mesmo olhar penetrante e poético a captar o intenso instante, e depois a escapar-se pela paisagem circunstante.

Maria da Nazaré (painting)

Falo também de um Carlos pastoral que vai buscar ao mundo rural outros movimentos, forçosamente mais lentos e telúricos, mas o mesmo expressionismo a verter pelas cores e tonalidades que lhe surgem da natureza com óbvia facilidade. Destaco ainda os desenhos e pinturas em diversas técnicas de formato A4 que produz com a facilidade de quem folheia calendários ou blocos de notas, como se fossem seus disfarçados heterónimos a saltarem acrobaticamente para fora dos reduzidos limites das folhas de papel, no lúdico exercício de quem se dá ao luxo de desperdiçar tempo, talento e inspiração.

Subway (painting)

Há semelhança de alguns outros artistas nacionais de elevado mérito e qualidade, é na sua pátria que é menos conhecido e divulgado. E, contudo, poderia ser de outra maneira. Por exemplo, um Carlos Alexandre tão famoso quanto o prolixo e fantástico americano LeRoy Neiman que, tal como ele, se exprime genialmente num estilo moderno e difícil em que o movimento é assumido como o componente mais visível e importante da obra de arte, desvanecendo-se quando surpreendido pela nossa atenta e comovida contemplação.

by Armando Taborda, October 1, 08

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September 30, 2008

I take the floor (44) - Tomo a palavra (44)

Two in morning

it's time to face my night´s remains

shadows combine with the light coming up from the avenue into the room where I am seated

sometimes one or another noise passes through double-glasses windows

this is my sound-proofing solitude

there is no background music

and

consequently

there will stay the melody of silence

rocking my night's remains.

The Melody of Silence (illustr…

(to read the original Portuguese version please click on the picture)

In "Sinfonia em Dor Menor", Edição da Escola de Mar, 2007

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September 24, 2008

I take the floor (43) - Tomo a palavra (43)

SPOILS

Sun illuminates scars

varicoses

and other life's fragments.

On the field

battle slows down

weapons keep quiet

canteens are empty.

Distended combatants

take off the boots

massage the feet

badly cautious against the flight of suicide doves

at the outburst beat of drums

far away.

Angola, 1966-1968

ESPÓLIO

O sol ilumina cicatrizes

varizes

e outros estilhaços de vida.

Sobre o campo

esmorece a batalha

calam-se as armas

esvaziam-se os cantis.

Os combatentes distendidos

descalços

massajam os pés

mal precavidos contra o suicida voo de pombas

no rompante rufar de tambores

ao longe.

In "Poetânea 5", Edition by the Authors, 2006

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September 15, 2008

Manuela Horta (painter & sculptor) - (pintora & escultora)

"Escape's Point", Painting Exh…

At her own private space, the ARThaus-Atelier, we are given by Manuela Horta with intermittent but diversified creative paintings, mixed techniques and installations, the last two focused on the sculptor she claims to be the first condition of her alter ego. We win the possibility to identify one personalized artist from modern and minimalist expression where elements of geometric context, very often abstract, symbolize her souls' status, emblematic situations and others from more or less ironic interpretation of what she sees or simply invents.

"Escape's Point", Painting Exh…

We can say that not being exactly a camera, Manuela is more interested on the creative process while abstraction of the being and his expression than on the representation of the visible reality. To treat her fairly we assess her synthetic and expressive technique based on a strong, well structured and genuine inspiration with result frankly positive and, why not to say, highly decorative and of aesthetics good taste.

"Escape's Point", Painting Exh…

No seu espaço privado, ARThaus-Atelier, a Manuela Horta dá-nos a conhecer o produto da sua intermitente mas diversificada criação em pintura, técnica mista e instalação, as duas últimas fazendo ressaltar a escultora que ela própria reivindica ser a primeira condição do seu alter ego. Ganhamos a possibilidade de identificar uma artista personalizada, de expressão moderna e minimalista, onde os elementos de contexto geométrico, frequentemente abstracto, simbolizam os seus estados de alma, as situações emblemáticas e outras de interpretação mais ou menos irónica do que vê ou simplesmente inventa.

Escape's Point - II (painting)

Digamos que a Manuela, não sendo propriamente uma máquina fotográfica, está mais interessada no processo criativo enquanto abstracção do ser e da sua expressão, do que na representação da realidade visível. Fazemos jus à sua expressiva e sintética técnica, fundamentada numa forte, bem estruturada e genuína inspiração, com resultado francamente positivo e, porque não dizê-lo, altamente decorativo e de bom gosto estético.

by Armando Taborda, May 4, 06

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September 10, 2008

I take the floor (42) - Tomo a palavra (42)

Today I am perplexed from images

my eyes catch

all obscured mass of surrounding light

at the ignited core of my mind

where

I don't know why

all my friends other beings and atmospheres reveal

no usefulness

due to the indifference I feel on me.

Surrounding Light (illustratio…

(to read the original Portuguese version please click on the picture)

In "Sinfonia em Dor Menor", Edição da Escola de Mar, 2007

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September 3rd, 2008

I take the floor (41) - Tomo a palavra (41)

Avenida da República, I

The Nick Cave's obsessions are also mine

love

God

and death

persistently walk along day's memory

at the music's pace invented in the 9th floor of a building at Avenida da República

where I hear sirens

every time

like there were only wounded

moribund

and dead persons in the city

taking a shortcut towards the burying ground.

The indifferent sun protects me from sadness

shrill and intermittent sounds turn up into a Spring' spiral till its loss in the blue

transparent clouds

forgotten

rest in the sky

love

God

and death

while I navigate through Internet

looking for the soul.

POETÂNEA 5, Edition by the Aut…

(to read the original Portuguese version please click on the picture)

In "Poetânea 5", Edition by the Authors, 2006

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August 22, 2008

I take the floor (40) - Tomo a palavra (40)

Everything begin in the mouth

the weeping

the speech

the nourishment

the love

the hatred

the pain

and also

the last breath.

Everything Begin in the Mouth…

(to read the original Portuguese version please click on the picture)

In "Sinfonia em Dor Menor", Edição da Escola de Mar, 2007

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August 11, 2008

Fernando Grade (a multi-talented artist) - (um artista multi-talentoso)

Fernando Grade, Portuguese citizen, writer and poet, plastic artist, critic of art. He uses two heteronyms to divulge his literary work: Abel Sabaoth (born in Porto, 1936, teacher of Latin) and Aal Aarão (born in Lisboa, 1950, economist). Together with other poets of his generation he established the "Portuguese Disintegration Movement" which manifesto was published in 1965. Probably he is its most productive and legitimate representative. He still founded and co-ordinates the oldest poetry notebooks continuously issued in Portugal since 1977, "Viola Delta", Edições Mic. He was a town councillor for Cascais Municipality, 1977/79, founder-member of the "Portuguese Writers Association" and his director from 1976 to 1978.

Perverse Collages / Paper Scul…

Illuminated and symbolic poet he creates texts of unusual beauty and rhythm where an assimilated erudition and a tense irony, very often provocative, build the skeleton of his personal and original sensibility and wit. For him the word has no secrets and the speech, full of genuine and unforeseen metaphors, hits our minds and stomachs with punches.

Perverse Collages / Paper Scul…

As a plastic artist his extended production of designer, painter, collage's maker, sculptor and illustrator is generally subordinated to two great themes:"Theory of Mobs" and "Perverse Collages / Paper Sculptures". Here we can see the author's preoccupation with putting his profitable and permanent creativity under two large hats to avoid his dispersion through other random areas with no added-worth to him. We also can recognize the artist's "disintegration" profile. The whole of his graphic representations is in the junction / union of the parts as puzzles' pieces an attentive observer must visually re-distribute in order to interpret the artist's aim. I have the grateful pleasure of being a personal friend of him. To fill my pride and honour some of my texts have been illustrated by him providing them with an appreciable added-worth.

VIOLA DELTA, Volume XLIII, Mic…

Fernando Grade, cidadão Português, escritor e poeta, artista plástico, crítico de arte. Usa dois heterónimos para divulgar o seu trabalho literário: Abel Sabaoth (nascido no Porto, 1936, professor de Latim) e Aal Aarão (nascido em Lisboa, 1950, economista). Com outros poetas da sua geração foi fundador do Movimento Desintegracionista Português cujo manifesto foi publicado em 1965. Provavelmente é o seu mais produtivo e legítimo representante. Fundou ainda e coordena os mais antigos cadernos de poesia que se editam continuamente em Portugal desde 1977, Viola Delta, Edições Mic. Foi autarca, vereador da Câmara Municipal de Cascais, 1977/79, sócio-fundador da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores e seu director de 1976 a 1978.

Perverse Collages / Paper Scul…

Poeta iluminado e simbólico cria textos de invulgar beleza e ritmo, onde uma erudição assimilada e uma ironia tensa, frequentemente provocatória, constituem o esqueleto da sua muito original sensibilidade e inteligência. A palavra para ele não tem segredos e o seu discurso, pleno de metáforas genuinas imprevistas, atinge-nos o pensamento e o estômago como murros.

Como artista plástico a sua extensa produção como desenhador, pintor, colagista, escultor e ilustrador é geralmente subordinada a dois grandes temas: "Teoria das Multidões" e "Colagens Perversas / Esculturas de Papel". Vê-se aqui a preocupação do autor em arranjar dois grandes chapéus que abriguem e disciplinem a sua criatividade profícua e permanente, sem se dispersar por áreas aleatórias que nada lhe dizem, nem acrescentam. Reconhece-se também aqui o perfil "desintegracionista" do artista plástico. O todo das suas representações gráficas encontra-se na junção / união dos elementos que as compõem, como peças de um puzzle que o observador atento necessita de redistribuir visualmente para lhe interpretar a intenção.

VIOLA DELTA, Volume XLV, Mic E…

Tenho o grato prazer de o conhecer e ser seu amigo pessoal. Com muita honra e algum orgulho diversos textos de minha autoria foram por ele ilustrados, acrescentando-lhes uma apreciável mais-valia.

by Armando Taborda, July 14, 08

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August 6, 2008

I take the floor (39) - Tomo a palavra (39)

Now I look at you

I hear your smile

desire coming  with your breath

and the gesture of tense fingers

painted nails as spears

very well treated

ready to finger my chest' s guitar

 this mild nightfall

while I want you excited

playing me

at the Carlos Paredes' style.

Carlos Paredes, musician (illu…
 

(to read the original Portuguese version please click on the picture)

In "Sinfonia em Dor Menor", Edição da Escola de Mar, 2007)

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August 1st, 2008

I take the floor (38) - Tomo a palavra (38)

 

We are clandestine travellers

inadvertently embarked into the terrestrial

spaceship

 

dreaming of a better destiny

which

uncertainly

is another energy's form

degraded

in the space.

Terrestrial Spaceship (illustr…

(to read the original Portuguese version please click on the picture)

In "Sinfonia em Dor Menor", Edição da Escola de Mar, 2007

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July 28, 2008

I take the floor (37) - Tomo a palavra (37)

I don't know if what I am is this sadness I feel

all surrounding is jazz's music I hear at a Manhattan Avenue

 

in Lisboa

 

my city of light and shadows the hills leave in the soul

at this night's time

so far away from everything

so close to nothing

 

the sax-tenor solo sounds sarcastic

smile I swallow

with my cigar' smoke.

Jazz Music in Manhattan (illus…

(to read the original Portuguese version please click on the picture)

In "Sinfonia em Dor Menor", Edição da Escola de Mar, 2007

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July 23, 2008

Praia Marinha, beach and marine caves - Praia Marinha, praia e grutas

Algarve, Praia Marinha (1)

The Michelin Guide classifies this beach as one of the 100 most beautiful in the whole world. The small sandy area close to Lagoa is still free from the crowd's invasion due to the fact it's sheltered by an high cliff. The pedestrian access is not easy (mostly in the way-back) but florid. The sea waters are transparent.

Algarve, Praia Marinha, marine…

From here you can start a marvellous sea-watch focused on the marine caves at both sides of the beach. Algarve shore is plenty of marine caves. However, Praia Marinha caves certainly are the most shaped by sea and wind centuries' erosion, thus became real natural sculptures and spaces of unbeatable beauty and unique mysticism. In case you come to Algarve someday please don't lose a visit to this delighted place.

Algarve, Praia Marinha, Cap. F…

O Guia Michelin classifica esta praia como uma das 100 mais belas do mundo inteiro. O pequeno areal situado perto de Lagoa ainda está livre da invasão das multidões porque está protegido por uma alta falésia. O acesso pedonal não é fácil (especialmente no regresso), mas muito florido. As águas do mar são transparentes.

Algarve, Praia Marinha, "Cathe…

Daqui pode iniciar-se um passeio pelo mar com o objectivo de visitar as grutas de ambos os lados da praia. A costa do Algarve está cheia de grutas marinhas. No entanto, as grutas da Praia Marinha são as melhor torneadas por séculos de erosão do mar e do vento, transfigurando-as em esculturas e espaços naturais de incontida beleza e misticismo único. Se algum dia viajar até ao Algarve não poderá perder uma visita a este lugar encantado.

Algarve, Praia Marinha, marine…

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July 18, 2008

I take the floor (36) - Tomo a palavra (36)

One can hear the waltz night within 

and us

useless

at all ghosts dance´s centre

 

fatuous and futile

ancestors

 

nothing discovering that we might clearly see

under the centuries' light that whirls

forever

the same waltz.

 

The Waltz (illustration)

(to read the original Portuguese version please click on the picture)

In "Sinfonia em Dor Menor", Edição da Escola de Mar, 2007  

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July 16, 2008

I take the floor (35) - Tomo a palavra (35)

"2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY", STANLEY KUBRICK

I build an obelisk from top to bottom

without foundation

I annul the gravity force with an equal and opposite creative energy.

 

I mould the shape without posthumous sense

nor cause and effect

meaning comes up with an undefined sketch prior from its dilution into the space 

                    before becomes stone.

 

My work is the Stanley Kubrick's obelisk in "2001: a space odyssey"

jump each time closer to galaxy's centre

compunctious hope always far away.

 

I mould an obelisk in the space

with love

night unfolds its hair

stars fill up its eyes

breeze half-opens its mouth

moon illuminates its reborn face.

VIOLA DELTA, Volume XLV, Mic E…

(to read the original Portuguese version please click on the picture)

MATINÉE 

I went to the movies to deceive myself

the illusion is good and seems reality

but it's a mistake's bit

taken from an argument

to sell the ticket

to whom already has overtime to dream.

In "VIOLA DELTA", Volume XLV, Mic Editors, 2008

(both texts illustrated by Fernando Grade)

 

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July 8, 2008

I take the floor (34) - Tomo a palavra (34)

I recover from surplus joy 

 well known and repeated hug in past

days

 

I hear the Keith Jarrett music at the Blue Note

themes' variations written on the stave

 

melancholy's impromptus

for future days.

Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note…

(to read the original Portuguese version please click on the picture) 

In "Sinfonia em Dor Menor" (illustrated by Carlos Alexandre), Edição da Escola de Mar, 2007

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June 30, 2008

I take the floor (33) - Tomo a palavra (33)

 

This is my city

necessity of a stand

open window for the night

 

sea' smell

 

turns back by the river

among the drain's nausea.

Nausea (illustration)

 (to read the Portuguese version please click on the picture)

In "Sinfonia em Dor Menor" (illustrated by Carlos Alexandre), Edição da Escola de Mar, 2007

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June 23, 2008

"School of Sea", Action Programme, July 2008 - Escola de Mar, Programa de Acção, Julho 2008

 

Escola de Mar "School of Sea",…

Cetacean Course: from Animal Ashores to Investigation

1, 2, 4 and 7 July 2008 (25h00 total)

Joint Organization by: Municipality of Alcobaça, Environment Department

Escola de Mar "School of Sea"

Biologist's Professional Order, Education Centre (Porto)

€ 70,00 for Members of the Biologist's Order

€ 80,00 for other participants

(transports from / to Setúbal and / or Sesimbra, sea trips, water and support materials are included)

Escola de Mar "School of Sea",…

Orcas in Tarifa

Weekend trip for orca's watch at their natural environment (Gibraltar Strait)

19 - 20 July 2008

Departure from Lisboa, saturday 08h00

Offer of an "Escola de Mar" kit

Stay in double room, dinner and breakfast

Sea  trip, 03h30 duration

Arrival to Lisboa, sunday 24h00

€ 275,00 per person

(there are a few places still available)

Escola de Mar "School of Sea",…
 

Scientific Investigation Course on Marine Biology

25-30 July 2008

(deadline for inscription, 18 th July)

SPECIES

ECOSYSTEMS

CONSERVATION

DIVULGATION

€ 125,00 per participant

(2 sea trips, material folder, snacks & course certificate are included)

Attribuition of 1 credit for Teatchers by the Portuguese Biologist's Professional Order

25h00 (total) past-laboral timetable, in Lisboa & Sesimbra

  

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June 19, 2008

Beyond the Surface - Para lá da Superfície

"Beyond the Surface", cover of…

 In general the relationship between Man and marine animals has been of predatory character conditioned by economic and commercial interests. The feeding system and derived products got the supremacy over the natural life and scientific and cultural knowledge despising the marine population fundamental maintenance. For a long while we thought that sea resources were unlimited and the exploration and fishing captures permanently feasible without any constraints. Today we know it is not true.

Sea-star, Vila Nova de Milfont…

 Scientists and conservationists try to understand and effectively protect animal and marine ecosystems with fruitful results for incoming generations, we hope. Indeed, maintenance and marine biodiversity knowledge is our fundamental objective! (excerpt)

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As relações entre o Homem e os animais marinhos, foram, em geral, e ao longo dos séculos de carácter predatório e sempre com uma intenção económica e comercial. A alimentação e os produtos derivados tinham primazia sobre a vida natural, o conhecimento científico e cultural, sobre a importância da manutenção dos animais e populações marinhas. Na verdade, durante muito tempo se pensou que os recursos do mar eram infinitos, que todas as explorações e capturas seriam permanentemente intemporais. Hoje sabe-se que não é assim.

Pantropical spotted dolphins,…

Cientistas e conservacionistas tentam compreender e proteger os animais e os ecosistemas marinhos de uma forma pragmática e com resultados que, esperamos,  se reflictam nas gerações vindouras. Porque a manutenção e o conhecimento da biodiversidade marinha é o nosso objectivo final! (excerto)

 

by Cristina Brito, in "Beyond the Surface" / "Para lá da Superfície (bilingual edition), Edição da Escola de Mar, 2006 (translated by Armando Taborda)

 

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