The painting exhibition “Matriz”, by João Barros Silva, will be on display between the 16th and 29th of November, at Igreja da Misericórdia, in Odemira. In the exhibition, several oil paintings will be exhibited, with portraits of national individuals, who stood out in areas such as culture and sport. Amália Rodrigues and José Saramago are some of those portrayed.
The exhibition can be visited, from Monday to Friday, between 9:00 am and 17:00 pm. The inauguration is scheduled for November 18, at 15.30 pm.
João Barros Silva has several exhibitions in his curriculum, individual and collective, in various galleries and cultural spaces.
This is an initiative promoted by the Municipality of Odemira.
About the author:
João Barros Silva, born in Angola in 1958, son of a self-taught painter, lived with this art form early on. In his adolescence, he painted his first oil paintings on canvas or wood, started by his father from whom he absorbed the greatest influences and particular taste for the human figure. In 1975, with his arrival in Portugal on the eve of Angola's independence, he interrupted his artistic activity for several years. While attending medical school and sporadically, he resumes drawing in graphite. In 2014 he was challenged to join a group of seniors from ADFA – Association of the Disabled of the Armed Forces, who met weekly under the guidance of a plastic arts teacher with the aim of learning painting techniques. It was then that he had a more serious and continued contact with acrylic painting, having gained a passion for portraits, privileging the gaze, an authentic mirror of the soul.
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