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Bartholomeu Dos Santos | |
Jerome Basserode | |
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Monica Sand | |
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The work of this distinguished Portuguese artist is mainly concerned with the printed image in the form of etchings. He has produced a formidable body of public art in Portugal, Macau and Tokyo using etched stone as well as ceramic tiles. In 2000 he illustrated several books by JosČ Saramago. He has had many one man shows in Europe, the Far East and the Americas, and is represented in many museums. Bartolomeu dos Santos taught printmaking at the Slade School for 35 years. He is Emeritus Professor in Fine Art at the University of London
Bartholomeu Dos Santos's work.
Signatures of the Invisible, writings and marks that survived the memory of Time, reminiscences for us to dream about, split second images of never ending questions. Jorge Luis Borges and his Aleph, an iridescent sphere that contained universal space', Alvaro de Campos and his 'splendour of maps, abstract path to the concrete imagination', images that human ingenuity created to recover past as well as future moments in time. Blackboards where inscriptions (like hieroglyphs), try to chart unknown labyrinthic ways. 'Ne pas effacer', do not erase. But time goes on, flowing without mercy. Andrei Tarkovsky knew about it.
London, 30 October 2000
The artist would like to thank Hans Drevermann at CERN for his support at the beginning of this project. Also Galeria 111 in Lisbon, Susana dos Santos and Paulo Sousa who was responsible for the woodwork.