Ernesto Bazan

Ernesto Bazan, Bazan Cuba (Bazan Photos Publishing, 2008 )

"It took me decades to understand with humility that God has given me a tool to serve me". 

"One year doesn't matter and ten years are nothing. Being an artist is not about gathering and calculating, it is about waiting for wailing. Just like a tree that doesn't hurry up but is hopeful, confronting the storms of spring, without worrying that summer might not come.
Summer comes. But it comes only to those who know how to hope, who stand in the place as though all eternity lay on their feet, silent and endless. With pain, I learn this lesson every day and I am pleased to repeat it: Patience is everything. "

Ernesto Bazan

Rouen

Cristina Tavares, Rouen, junho 2018

Lembra-te
que todos os momentos
que nos coroaram
todas as estradas
radiosas que abrimos
irão achando sem fim
seu ansioso lugar
seu botão de florir
o horizonte
e que dessa procura
extenuante e precisa
não teremos sinal
senão o de saber
que irá por onde fomos
um para o outro
vividos

Mário Cesariny, Pena Capital

Rouen

 

Cristina Tavares, Rouen, 8 junho 2018 

Rouen

Cristina Tavares, Rouen, 3 de junho de 2018

Rouen

Cristina Tavares, Rouen, junho 2018

You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love. 

 Louise Bourgeois

(para a Graça, com amor.)

Rouen

Cristina Tavares, Rouen, junho 2018

Marlene Dumas

Women and Painting

I paint because I am a woman.
(It’s a logical necessity).
If painting is female and insanity is a female malady, then all women painters are mad and all male painters are women.

Marlene Dumas in Marlene Dumas, Sweet Nothings. Notes and Texts, 1998

Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas, Measuring Your Own Grave, 2003

Noémia Cruz

Noémia Cruz, revisitando os bonecos de Estremoz,
inseridos na Escrita na paisagem, 2008

Karel e Ana Cristina

Karel Appel, Two Large Heads, 1960

Devagar escreva
uma primeira letra
escreva
nas imediações construídas
pelos furacões;

(...)

Ana Cristina César, Inéditos e Dispersos, 1999

para a construção do poema 65

Eva Lewitt

Eva Lewitt, Untitled, 2017

Eva Lewitt, Untitled, 2017

Eva Lewitt, Untitled, 2017

"My inspiration always comes from the materials themselves. I have gravitated towards soft, synthetic, colourful materials; plastic bags, sponges, yarn, tape, etc. I struggled for a time using traditional sculptural materials such as plywood, steel, fibreglass. But these materials hurt me—literally and figuratively. I prefer to work in complete solitude, and I physically could not manage these materials alone." 
Eva Lewitt 

Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly,
The Mallarmé Suite,
1992

Lygia Pape

Lygia Pape, Tecelar, 1958

Anna Akhmátova

Sobre eles me inclino, como sobre a taça,
tantos são nos versos os sinais amados - 



Anna Akhmátova, Só o Sangue Cheira a Sangue

Daniel Jonas

(...)

Se engulo um pinhão 
porque não me cresce dentro 
um pinheiro?
Ou por outra: quando me entra
toda a música
para onde vai,
porque não me soo
a composição que respiguei?

Daniel Jonas, Bisonte

Kara Walker

Kara Walker, Darkytown Rebellion, 2002

White Dog

Cristina Tavares, White Dog, maio 2018

Clara Menéres, 1943-2018

Clara Menéres,
Os Amantes, ou restos arqueológicos de uma viagem para a morte, 1986

Jean Arp

Jean Arp, Metamorphosid (Shell Swan), 1935