… Her hand follows her heart as it draws, allowing everything within it that has no voice or recognition to reveal itself. This work disturbs us by the force of its truthfulness and, at the same time, touches us with its extreme simplicity and purity. ...
The set of drawings that Teresa Gonçalves Lobo exhibits at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Funchal [Museum of Contemporary Art of Funchal] reflects an expanded and hyper-sensitive relationship with her sur- roundings, with the things in the world. This relationship...
This exhibition reveals multiple sides to the work of Teresa Gonçalves Lobo. The artist isolates an element from her earlier experiences of writing/drawing-visual poetry and develops it formally based on its original matrix; she offers us the side of pure inscription...
“When we see a line on a canvas or on a paper, we read it, that is, we follow it with the eyes, even unconsciously, as we would do with the dancer. Go through it this way, throughout a mental possession, means to live it in imagination.” – René Huyghe The...
“Calligraphie auprès de laquelle, plus simplement, on se tient comme auprès d’un arbre, d’une roche, d’une source.” Henri Michaux – Idéogrammes en Chine. “They sparkle in the night of existence, through the clarity of consciousness that does...
Those who follow the work of Teresa Gonçalves Lobo know that it is made of lines, twists and curves, intertwined traces and a mesh of strokes. It is from the intersection of those strokes that the tension of each of the drawings of Teresa comes to life. From one line...
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