Africa-Press – Cape verde. The plastic artist Gabriela Carrascalão opens on Wednesday, 8, her exhibition entitled “Mana Timor”, at the Cape Verde Cultural Center (CCCV), in Lisbon, Portugal.
The event is scheduled for 6 pm.
According to a press release, Gabriela Carrascalão brings to this exhibition a set of works using oil on canvas, Chinese ink and colored pencils, which portray the experiences of women in her native Timor-Leste .
In this exhibition, the artist “expresses in brushstrokes of vibrant unique tones, born in a palette that she creates herself, as an alchemist of colors, with the ability to add to her own rainbow colors that she imagines, mixes and applies on her canvases, from which they emerge. figures and tones that surprise the eyes of those who absorb the history of Timor-Leste through them”, according to the synopsis.
Gabriela Carrascalão’s work “shows the feelings and impressions of someone who lived through the war that her country, Timor-Leste, fought to become independent”.
In his peculiar trait, “the pain of those who witnessed the death of family and friends” appears.
about the artist
Maria Gabriela Guterres Viegas Carrascalão was born at Fazenda Algarve, in East Timor, in 1949. She is the daughter of a Portuguese father and an East Timorese mother.
In the turbulent years of struggle for Timor-Leste’s independence, she was forced to seek political refuge in Australia, where she graduated in Journalism from the University of Wollongong, in New South Wales, having worked on Australian Public Radio and Television, SBS. (Special Broadcasting Service).
In the scope of her journalistic work, she was, in 2007, the first foreign journalist to be distinguished with the American “Knight Fellowship” award, which recognized her civic work in favor of her people and the democratic consolidation of Timor-Leste.
Path in the plastic arts
His path in the visual arts began early and in a self-taught way, having later joined the Escola Superior de Belas Artes in Lisbon.
As a painter, her style is unique, fluctuating between ethnic impressionism and a certain miscegenation that give her a trait easily identified as her own, for being unique and characteristic.
His life and art are greatly influenced by the struggle that his people fought to gain their independence and full freedom, and his painting is a reflection of that.
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