Manuel CaeiroÉvora, Portugal, 1975
DAVID BARRO
Welcome to my loft - Manuel Caeiro's Lost Forms
Like many contemporary painters, Manuel Caeiro questions painting starting from the repetition of forms. Each line insists on the achieving of an idea, and its multiplication, its sequence, generates the definitive rhythm. Manuel Caeiro works the modular detail as that which unleashes each new image, and he always does it starting from memory or recall of what is constructed, seeking a new order. Thus his strategy is that of unfolding or propagating a reality that is reconstructed and therefore fictitious, which is born out of the most traditional of mediums - painting - to the one that possesses the most historical charge and which at the same time to all appearances processes a weaker contemporary condition or at least one that is more questioned, with its mental state being a continuous reason for debate.
PUBLICATIONS
Manuel CAEIRO Welcome to my Loft. Santiago de Compostela Lisboa : Dardo ds/ Galeria Carlos Carvalho, 2007
Manuel CAEIRO ; Carlos Neves CARVALHO, José Manuel de VASCONCELOS (textos)Manuel Caeiro Lisboa : Galeria Ara, 1999
Manuel CAEIRO ; Catarina CAMPINO, Carlos Neves CARVALHO (textos) Cenas Domésticas. Lisboa : Galeria Ara, 2001
Luisa Soares de OLIVEIRA, “Desenho de Projecto”, Lisboa, Galeria Ara, Dezembro, 2003
Manuel CAEIRO; Fátima RAMOS, Emília FERREIRA, João PINHARANDA (textos de texts by) Casas da Caparica, Lisboa: Edição OPCA, 2005
Oliveira, Luísa Soares de, “Noticias do Reino das Sombras”, Cascais, Fundação d. Luis
I, Abril, 2005.
“Manuel Caeiro na Galeria Évora Arte”, Évora, Galeria Évora Arte, Fevereiro, 2002
Miguel AMADO (textos de texts by), “Opções e Futuros – Obras da Colecção da Fundação PLMJ (Options & Futures - Works from the PLMJ Collection)”. Lisboa Lisbon: Fundação PLMJ, 2008
Manuel CAEIRO; Ivo MARTINS et. al (textos de texts by), Manuel Caeiro Guimarães: CCVF Centro Cultural Vila Flor, 2010
Luís SERPA, João PINHARANDA et. al. (textos de texts by) Sala do Veado Vinte Anos, Lisboa: Museu de História Natural, Museus da Politécnica, 2010