Folha de Sala | Antevisão na Embaixada Portuguesa em Londres

Detail image: Cruzeiro Seixas (1920-2020). Untitled, c. 1990’s.

Mixed media on photo paper, 17 x 21 cm

Perve Galeria

Cruzeiro Seixas Frieze Masters | Spotlight Section Preview at the Embassy of Portugal in London 12 October 2021 at 6 p.m.

Cruzeiro Seixas (1920-2020). The amusements of Ulisses, 1969. Mixed media on paper, 29,5 x 21 cm

With the honorable presence of the Portuguese Ambassador, Manuel Lobo Antunes

Cruzeiro Seixas. Untitled, 2009. Mixed media on paper, 25 x 15 cm.

After the Celebration Cycle of his Centenary, initiated in Portugal by Perve Galeria, the artwork of Cruzeiro Seixas arrives in London.

The exhibition cycle in tribute to the Portuguese surrealist master began in November 2020, with exhibitions at Perve Galeria and Casa da Liberdade - Mário Cesariny, at Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, and at Atmosfera m.

The cycle ends in Portugal with the exhibition “One Step Ahead”, on show until 22 October 2021, at Atmosfera m Porto. However, Perve Galeria continues the tribute cycle internationally, through its participation in international art fairs, from Spain to the United Kingdom, as is the case of the next exhibition at Frieze Masters in London, introducing to the world the great painter and poet, founder of the Portuguese surrealist group, Cruzeiro Seixas (1920-2020).

Following this project of homage and internationalization of the artist, in preview, curated by Carlos Cabral Nunes, Artistic Director of Perve Galeria, the present exhibition presents, for the first time in London, the artwork of the master Artur do Cruzeiro Seixas, which will later integrate the largest international art fair, Frieze Masters, at The Regent’s Park (stand H13), from 13 to 17 October.

The future exhibition at Frieze Masters, curated by Laura Hoptman, brings together artworks, documents, letters, drawings, poetry, made between the 40’s and the 80’s of the 20th century, covering 50 years of the artist’s activity, continuing the course of his internationalisation, along with the exhibition “A tío Arturo Cruzeiro Seixas por su centenário”, part of “Menú - Cuadernos de Poesía”, on show until the November 21 in Cuenca, Spain.

The present ceremony reflects the beginning of a project that gives the opportunity to discover and connect to Cruzeiro Seixas and his intense and complex world.

Opening of the exhibition “One Step Ahead” at Atmosfera m Porto, Portugal. September 17, 2021.

Cruzeiro Seixas. Soulscape, c. 1980’s. Chinese ink and tempera on paper, 20 x 26,5 cm.

Cruzeiro Seixas. Untitled, 1969. Collage on paper, 18 x 29,5 cm.

Opening of the exhibition “A tío Arturo Cruzeiro Seixas por su centenário” at Sala ACUA of Cuenca, Spain. September 24, 2021.

Cruzeiro Seixas 1920-2020, Portugal

Born in 1920, Cruzeiro Seixas attended António Arroios Secondary School in Lisbon. In 1948 he joined the group “The Surrealists”, with Mário Cesariny, Pedro Oom, Henrique Risques Pereira, António Maria Lisboa, Mário Henrique Leiria, Fernando José Francisco, Fernando Alves dos Santos e Carlos Calvet.

In the 50’s leaves Portugal towards Africa settling in Angola. With the step of the colonial war abandons Africa and returns to Portugal where he produced illustrations for “Erotic and Satirical Portuguese Poetry Anthology” of Natália Correia and in 1967, with Mário Cesariny exhibits “Surrealist Painting” at Divulgação Gallery in Porto.

In the following decades, after cutting ties with Cesariny, moves away from the commercial and institutional art circuits. Sttles in Algarve and continues to present his work in solo and group exhibitions.

In 2006, Perve Galeria presented “Cesariny, Cruzeiro Seixas and Fernando José Francisco and the Cadavre Exquis walk.” This exhibition marked the reunion of the three artists. Original works carried out between 1941 and 2006 were presented.

Cruzeiro Seixas was honoured with the Medal of Cultural Merit by the president of the Portuguese Culture Ministry, Graça Fonseca, in October 2020. In the same year, on 8 November, a few days before his 100th birthday, the artist passed away.

The artist is represented in the collection of the Chiado‘s Museum (Lisbon); Modern Art Centre of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon); Institute of National Library and the Book; Machado de Castro National Museum (Coimbra); Francisco Tavares Proença Júnior Museum (Castelo Branco); António Prates Foundation (Ponte de Sor), Cupertino de Miranda Foundation (V. N. Famalicão), Eugenio Granell Fundación (Galicia), among others, being the Perve Galeria’s collection one of the few available in the international art market.

Cruzeiro Seixas

Cruzeiro Seixas. Untitled, n.d. Mixed media on paper, 21,5 x 31 cm.

CREDITS Concept and Curatorship Carlos Cabral Nunes Executive Direction Nuno Espinho Production e Comunication Alexandra Sorokina Jessica Guerreiro Nuno Espinho Mariana Guerra Laura Torres Vanessa Costa Graphic Design Carlos Cabral Nunes Jessica Guerreiro Joana Oliveira

Cruzeiro Seixas Untitled, c. 1960’s Chinese ink and tempera on paper, 30,5 x 32,5 cm Ref.: CS122

Production Perve Galeria Printed by Perve Global Lda.

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