Exhibition
shapes and forces
29 June 2012 — 31 July 2012
Location
- Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto
- Susana Mendes Silva
- António Bolota
- Zulmiro de Carvalho
- Alexandre Estrela
- Fernando Lanhas
- Candice Lin
- João Queiroz
- Isabel Ribeiro
- Arlindo Silva
- Ângelo de Sousa
- Sérgio Taborda
- Pedro Tropa
- Willem Weismann
- Christine Fowler
The starting point of the exhibition was the homonymous book by René Huyghe, published in 1971, in which is made a research about the Shape. The French writer seeks to demonstrate how the structural similarity between some artistic shapes and all those that can be found in nature reveals a profound connection between the driving forces of the human spirit and those acting on universe. Thus, the exhibition is traversed by an attempt to work questions related to the intersection between art, nature and life, through the presented works, and by an evocation of the writer’s biography, whose path was guided by a quest for understanding the intimate relationship between these dimensions.
