The Casa Manuel Teixeira Gomes, in Portimão, will inaugurate, from 15:30 pm on the 2nd of September, a collective exhibition with works by the photojournalist Marques Valentim, under the theme “Salgueiro Maia, the face of the revolution” and paintings of São Passos, with the title “Queen of Color”.
Marques Valentim was born in Cascais, in 1949, and completed the Photography and Cinema course at the Army Cartography Services, having completed his mandatory military service in Mozambique, as a furriel militia foto cine.
Soon after the 25th of April, he turned to photojournalism, starting his work at the European Press Agency, followed by passages through the newspapers Correio da Manhã, of which he was part of the founding team, “A Luta”, “Portugal Hoje”, “Off-Side” and “Comércio do Porto”, among other works.
Author of the photograph chosen by Pedro Adão e Silva – as president of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April – to honor the military man who gives face to the revolution, the exhibition by Marques Valentim presents Salgueiro Maia, his hero, as a theme, with images of life of 'Capitão de Abril' and his native village, Castelo de Vide, where he is buried and where he left work.
The artist São Passos, his wife, shows in each painting a maturity of themes and plastic techniques. Born in the Mozambican city of Beira, in 1949, the ardent Algarve blood of her ancestors and the African soul that strengthened her merged into a growing creativity, which can now be enjoyed in Portimão.
With an artistic initiation in the fields of sculpture and ceramics, he exhibited in Mozambique, South Africa and Malawi, before moving to Portugal in 1976, where he dedicates himself, among other creative activities, to illustrating children's book covers.
In 2012, she was recognized by the Circle of Mozambican Writers in the Diaspora and by the Lusophone Association, Development, Culture and Integration, for the “prestige she gained in the visual arts and for her great contribution to the enrichment and dissemination of Mozambican culture”.
As exhibitions will be open until the 30th of September
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