The exhibition “Fábula Rasa”, with illustrations by Joaquim Rosa and texts by Vítor Encarnação, will be open to the public at the Municipal Library of Loulé Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, from 3 to 31 October, and shows that «in the fable, nothing is definitive".
«Maintaining the timeless lessons of the fable, it is possible to redefine it and adapt it to the present time, starting over with a blank sheet of paper and starting from a “scraped narrative”. We can thus say that in the fable nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything is transformed. And this transformation takes place through our circumstance, our interpretation and our sensory experience. In the fable, nothing is final. Neither the illustrations, nor the words, nor the story, nor its morals», says the municipality in a note.
Joaquim Rosa (illustrator) was born in Castro Verde. From an early age, he showed his taste for drawing and painting. At the age of 14 he learned some painting techniques, exhibiting ever since. In 1992, he graduated in Visual Design. He was a founding member of Fábrica das Artes, in Castro Verde (1995) and, since 1993, teaches in the area of Expressions at the Castro Verde School Group.
Joaquim Rosa also carried out a wide range of works in the field of illustration, including illustrations for posters: “Feira de Castro” (since 1998); “Campo Branco Spring” (since 2001); illustration of the books “Maturação” and “Açã de Adão” for the publishing house “100luz” (2010); Meetings of Libraries of the National Library Network (since 2014). Since 2016 he has regularly participated in collective and individual painting exhibitions.
Vítor Encarnação (writer) was born in the village of Palheiros, municipality of Ourique. Graduated in Modern Languages and Literature from the Faculty of Arts of the Classical University of Lisbon, he is a professor of English and German at the Agrupamento de Escolas de Ourique and a permanent columnist for the newspapers Diário do Alentejo and Correio Alentejo. In addition, he is a contributor to Revista Alentejo.
The writer has also published several works of poetry, short stories, chronicles and children's literature and is president of the General Assembly of ASSESTA – Associação de Escritores do Alentejo.
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