In "Blume, Flor," Annette Barcelo employs dark, moody tones contrasted with vibrant greens and reds to create a dynamic composition centered on a large, textured flower. The painting's intricate patterns and bold strokes capture the organic essence and depth of the floral subject. Barcelo’s distinctive, expressive style highlights the interplay between order and chaos, suggestive of personal mythology. Throughout her five-decade career, Barcelo has consistently explored connections between life's diverse realms, and this piece embodies her exploration of nature's visceral beauty. ...
For over five decades, Annette Barcelo has worked continuously, often in series, and using various techniques such as painting, drawing and printmaking, developing her specific visual language, which explores the connections between the diverse areas of life and personal mythologies. Since the 1980s, the artist’s works have been exhibited both locally and internationally.
MADRAGOA is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2016 in the homonymous neighborhood of Lisbon’s historical center. Since its beginning, the gallery has been an early supporter of a number of international young artists such as Adrián Balseca, Rodrigo Hernández, Renato Leotta, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Joanna Piotrowska, and Yuli Yamagata, whose first productions and exhibition have been produced and promoted by the gallery and often presented for the first time in Portugal. Moreover, Madragoa launched the careers of young Portuguese artists such as Sara Chang Yan, Luís Lázaro Matos, Gonçalo Preto, and Jaime Welsh, giving them visibility on the international scene. From its peripheral location in Europe, MADRAGOA’s project focuses on how to set a deep conversation with the city and its extraordinary potential, setting a dialogue between global artistic practices and local craftsmanship and ideas. The gallery always created experiences of research and production for its artists locally and promotes its program also through the participation in a number of international art fairs, gallery exchanges, and exhibition projects. MADRAGOA is currently recognized as one of the most innovative realities in the Portuguese art scene, while it succeeded to obtain visibility internationally throughout its years of its activity. At the moment, the gallery actively represents artists from Portugal, Italy, Ecuador, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Brazil and South Africa. ...
