A child is asked: Draw a flower! Give him paper and pencil. The child will sit in the other corner of the room where there is no one else. After a while the paper is full of lines. Some in one direction, others in another; some heavier, others lighter; some easier, others more costly. The child wanted so much force on certain lines that the paper almost couldn't resist. Others were so delicate that just the weight of the pencil was too much. Then the child comes to show these lines to people: A flower! People don't think these lines are similar to those on a flower! However, the word flower traveled inside the child, from head to heart and from heart to head, looking for the lines with which a flower is made, and the child put some, or all, of those lines on paper. Maybe I would have put them out of place, but those are the lines with which God makes a flower!

by Almada Negreiros

in "The Revenant or the Sitting Man - III part"


FERNANDO GASPAR b.1966, Portugal

Self-taught, Gaspar has exhibited continuously since 1986, collaborating with national and foreign art galleries. To date, there have been more than sixty solo exhibitions, some National Awards and representations in public and private collections in Portugal, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Italy, Canada, Brazil and the United States.
His work has evolved towards an increasingly reflective and contemporary approach, strongly marked by an assumed independence in relation to current currents and trends.