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Agenda Municipal / Exhibitions Golden Memories: 70 Stations of Iron Love for the Art of Pedro Pinto

Golden Memories: 70 Stations of Iron Love for the Art of Pedro Pinto
Until 28 Feb
Vila Nova de Famalicão | National Railway Museum - Lousado Centre

Free admission | Opening: 05 January | Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday from 10h00 to 17h30; Saturday and Sunday: from 14h30 to 17h30; Closed on Mondays and national holidays, Easter Saturday, 24 and 31 December.

This is an exhibition that celebrates the journey of a man who makes his childhood landscapes and deepest emotions his voice as an artist: through his brush, chisel, chisel and gouge. Pedro Pinto was born in Resende in 1955 and immediately saw the gentle and deep meandering of the River Douro as his inspiration. It was in this contemplation that he began to trace his path and love of art through the fields and paths of his beloved valley. Walking barefoot on the beaten earth and branch in hand, he began to make his first sketches on the ground, recreating the worlds that arose in his childhood imagination.

Today he paints what he has seen and experienced, without the need for references beyond memory. He knows the name of every tree and with each brushstroke he revisits the hills, valleys and waters of the Douro, transforming them into oil and acrylic paintings, in a relationship with colours and strokes spanning more than five decades.

He began his work on the Portuguese Railways at a very young age and now, celebrating 70 railway stations, colours and memories that travel through time, he is presenting this unprecedented exhibition, where each canvas, each sculpture, is a piece of himself, of the land, of nature and of memory.


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