In its long standing, Sobral Centeno’s artistic oeuvre, spread throughout several series (and subseries) which may locate it in time, suggest, within a framework of allusions and coherences, as a supposed closure, an approach to the lived experiences and references of several latitudes and geographies and causes.\u00a0 The \u201ccause\u201d for this current exhibition, \u201cThe Douro before you\u201d, is the urge for a hymn, an homage to the Douro people, its places of recollection, the childhood years of the Artist himself.\u00a0 Action painting has always been key in Centeno’s works, a valuation of expression (of inner feeling) that a usually narrow palette made visible.\u00a0 But now, the emphasis on black, its gradations or dilutions (watery dilutions) underlines a vision of a harsher Douro (necessarily closer to that of Miguel Torga), containing a deep river, its dark banks (of so few joys), the mountains, the sails and the boats (their shipwrecks) and, further away, small chapels and crosses (of redemption and death)\u2026 In this frame of mind, the approach to colour, the expressive brushstrokes, establish nexuses or are a likely reference to Hartung and Yves Klein, in their scholarly citations and almost impure gesturing.\u00a0 Moreover, the scale of some works, their endless horizontal layout, endows this exhibition with the idea of panorama, a distinct way of viewing and re-viewing.\u00a0 Yet another victorious crusade for Centeno?\u2026<\/p>\n
Ant\u00f3nio Cardoso<\/p>\n
Prof. Emeritus of FLUP Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Museum Director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The \u201ccause\u201d for this current exhibition, \u201cThe Douro before you\u201d, is the urge for a hymn, an homage to the Douro people, its places of recollection, the childhood years of the Artist himself – Sobral Centeno. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25106,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"pj-categs":[95],"pj-tags":[],"class_list":["post-25084","project","type-project","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","pj-categs-exhibition-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n