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Rites of Passage

Exhibition at Casa do Corpo Santo, a difficult but suggestive baroque space, curated by Fernando António Baptista Pereira, where Sofia Arez presents a collection of works with a very interesting plastic and symbolic maturity. The works represent and disguise the forms in an exacerbating tempest of chromatic and pictoric values, without easy concessions or shocking colouring. In this way her works present to the observer the question of the ritual changing of forms (pictoric and human). At the same time, when observing them we are obliged to reflect on the conflict between tradition and innovation as a result of the surprising quality of these innovative works.

Estados de Alma, 1993

Estados de Alma, 1993

oil on canvas

200 x 130 cm, private collection

Metamorfoses, 1995

Metamorfoses, 1995

oil on canvas

200 x 250 cm, private collection

Ritos de Passagem, 1994

Ritos de Passagem, 1994

oil on canvas

153 x 200 cm, private collection

Contestação pelo Silêncio, 1994

Contestação pelo Silêncio, 1994

oil on canvas

560 x 110 cm

Convocação, 1995

Convocação, 1995

óleo s/tela

105 x 115 cm, private collection

Fetos, 1995

Fetos, 1995

oil on canvas

200 x 295 cm, public collection- Setúbal Municipal Museum

Figure #1, 1993

Figure #1, 1993

oil on canvas

200 x 130 cm

Figure #2, 1993

Figure #2, 1993

mixed media

200 x 130 cm

Figure #3, 1995

Figure #3, 1995

oil on canvas

195 x 140 cm

Cocoon, 1995

Cocoon, 1995

glass and wood

11 x 35 x 15 cm

Uterus, 1995

Uterus, 1995

crystal

13 x 20 x 20 cm

Uterus, 1995

Uterus, 1995

crystal

13 x 20 x 20 cm

Rites of Passage

Exhibition at Casa do Corpo Santo, a difficult but suggestive baroque space, curated by Fernando António Baptista Pereira, where Sofia Arez presents a collection of works with a very interesting plastic and symbolic maturity. The works represent and disguise the forms in an exacerbating tempest of chromatic and pictoric values, without easy concessions or shocking colouring. In this way her works present to the observer the question of the ritual changing of forms (pictoric and human). At the same time, when observing them we are obliged to reflect on the conflict between tradition and innovation as a result of the surprising quality of these innovative works.

Estados de Alma, 1993

Estados de Alma, 1993

oil on canvas

200 x 130 cm, private collection

Metamorfoses, 1995

Metamorfoses, 1995

oil on canvas

200 x 250 cm, private collection

Ritos de Passagem, 1994

Ritos de Passagem, 1994

oil on canvas

153 x 200 cm, private collection

Contestação pelo Silêncio, 1994

Contestação pelo Silêncio, 1994

oil on canvas

560 x 110 cm

Convocação, 1995

Convocação, 1995

óleo s/tela

105 x 115 cm, private collection

Fetos, 1995

Fetos, 1995

oil on canvas

200 x 295 cm, public collection- Setúbal Municipal Museum

Figure #1, 1993

Figure #1, 1993

oil on canvas

200 x 130 cm

Figure #2, 1993

Figure #2, 1993

mixed media

200 x 130 cm

Figure #3, 1995

Figure #3, 1995

oil on canvas

195 x 140 cm

Cocoon, 1995

Cocoon, 1995

glass and wood

11 x 35 x 15 cm

Uterus, 1995

Uterus, 1995

crystal

13 x 20 x 20 cm

Uterus, 1995

Uterus, 1995

crystal

13 x 20 x 20 cm

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