\u00c2ngelo de Sousa\u2019s vast and comprehensive oeuvre has earned him a place among the main 20th-century Portuguese artists, as he is one of the few on an equal standing with the most important contemporary artists in the international art scene.<\/p>\n\n
Though initially a painter, his artistic endeavour encompassed other art-forms, such as sculpture, drawing, filmmaking and photography, incorporated as experimental approaches to different techniques and subject matters, taking place intermittently along his career.<\/p>\n\n
Despite this surprising diversity, some features remained constant throughout his life, revealing Sousa\u2019s capacity for change without betraying the essential nature of his practice: preference for abstraction over representational elements, economy of means, shapes and colours, and the recourse to the art series as a means to explore possible variations on a single theme or idea, such as his sculptures made of folded and painted metal sheets or plates, as illustrated by the piece built for the 3rd Santo Tirso International Symposium.<\/p>\n\n
By employing different scales and materials, this untitled piece revisits some domestic, spontaneous experiences of the 1960s and 1970s, made from folded and cut-out paper (often using unusual materials, like the protective foil of cigarette packs), thus exploring plane transpositions into three-dimensional sculpture-related forms, as well as spatial drawings of great fluidity and simplicity.<\/p>\n\n
Doing justice to the proverbial conviction that matter is always right, \u00c2ngelo de Sousa\u2019s sculptures resulted from a deep knowledge of the plastic potentials of his materials, as his free, ever-inquisitive spirit never ceased experimenting with ideas, forms and matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4202,"template":"","categoria-da-obra":[89],"class_list":["post-4210","colecao","type-colecao","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria-da-obra-03-symposium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/colecao\/4210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/colecao"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/colecao"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/colecao\/4210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4211,"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/colecao\/4210\/revisions\/4211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria-da-obra","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria-da-obra?post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}