The exhibition “Rumo ao Sul”, with works by Bertílio Martins, Ângelo Gonçalves. Bruno Grilo, Luís Marques and Manuel Baptista, will be on display until the 15th of August, at Galeria Sá da Costa, in Lisbon. The exhibition represents the first act of a collaboration protocol established between Sul Sol e Sal and this gallery in the capital.
This partnership will allow artists represented by the two structures to circulate between the Algarve and Lisbon.
With this initiative, Sul Sol e Sal says that «it intends to make a contribution to expanding the exhibition circuit in which artists from the region are presented, placing their work under the gaze of other audiences and integrating them into a broader cultural environment, diverse and mature”.
The exhibition will bring together works by Bertílio Martins, Ângelo Gonçalves. Bruno Grilo, Luís Marques and Manuel Baptista, recently deceased.
The title of the exhibition «says less about the works that compose it than about the intention that motivates it. First of all, it presupposes an action, a movement», explain the promoters.
«And about it – the title – it is important to say that it has, paradoxically, two opposite meanings. It proposes to the public a geography in coincidence with the cardinal point, a visual revisitation of the South and all its meridional, solar, transparent, maritime semantics. For the represented artists, the South they desire (place of opportunity, visibility, meeting with peers) is in the opposite direction. The south for Algarve artists is still the north, where the contemporary art system is thick and moves like a living animal», adds the organization.
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