«Arte com Can» is the title of the exhibition by the Dutch artist Eric de Bruijn, consisting of a series of images created based on the old colored lithographic illustrations of the cans, which opens on August 3, at 21 pm, in the lobby of the Museum of Pritima.
The images, which will remain on display until September 29, were printed directly onto the metal plate and, based on this process, the artist overlaid his intervention, proposing a new look at these forms that are so common and present in our collective memory.
According to the Portimão Museum, the canning tins awakened in the plastic artist «feelings of nostalgia and longing, so he felt the need to reinterpret and creatively relate to these objects, synthesizing in his images the industrial canning universe of Portimão, in particular , and the Algarve in general», stresses the Portimão Town Council in a press release.
José Gameiro, director of the Portimão Museum, added in statements to Sul Informação that the artist «found in cans of canned food a kind of synthesis of the relationship with maritime and fishing Portugal. He told me that it was in the tins of preserves that he found more the Portuguese spirit of the sea, as if a tin conserved and kept that spirit».
Eric de Bruijn mainly uses lithographic images of Rita and La Rose canning tins, produced at the Feu factory, whose building now houses the Portimão Museum, so this exhibition is almost a return to the origins.
Eric de Bruijn was born in 1957 in the Netherlands and about ten years ago he came to live and work in Portugal, based in Lagos, having immediately assumed a strong empathy for the maritime history of the Portuguese people.
Known as a figurative and abstract lyrical painter, Eric de Bruijn's work has been through several galleries and art exhibitions in Europe and the United States of America.
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