DESENHO 39x48 silkscreen

€480,00
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Edition of 50, numbered and signed by the artist. Each image is sold individually and unframed. Delivery time: 3 weeks.
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Design

Álvaro Siza

Limited Editions

Edition of 50, numbered and signed by the artist

Image size in cm

21 x 30

Total size in cm

39 x 48

Country of origin

Portugal

Printing method

Screen printing technique, also known as silkcreen

Paper Material

Fabriano paper (300gr)

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DESENHO 39x48 silkscreen

Álvaro Siza started drawing at the age of six. With a great variety of drawings on his portfolio, many of them are inspired by mythology and historic scenes.

“The drawings are what came to my mind in this very moment. I like mythology and expressing the stories in images. I have made a lot of mythological drawing in my life.” 

Álvaro Siza 

DESENHO (Man Painting) - The painting shows someone who begins a drawing, looking on the paper with a pen in the hand. Álvaro Siza describes the very special moment of taking the decision to make a painting, facing the white paper. A reproduction of his situation, doing this series of paintings: not knowing what to do until the decision to draw was being made. Then the idea of mythology came to his mind. 

“It is, in some way, an expression of my personal moment making drawings. But it is not a self-portrait, I am quite different than this man. It is not a specific person on purpose, because everyone makes drawings. Maybe not everyone does it, but everyone could do it.” 

Designer

Álvaro Siza

Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira was born in Matosinhos in 1933.
He studied Architecture at Porto School of Fine Arts between 1949 and 1955, his first work was built in 1954. He was a professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, the city where he practices his profession.

Álvaro Siza is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; he is an "Honorary Fellow" of the RIBA / Royal Institute of British Architects; member of the BDA/Bund Deutscher Architekten; “Honorary Fellow” and “Honorary FAIA” by the AIA/American Institute of Architects; member of the Académie d'Architecture de France; the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts; the IAA/International Academy of Architecture; of National Geographic Portugal; Honorary Member and Honorary Member of the Portuguese Architects Association; member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; Honorary Professor at Southeast University China and China Academy of Art and Honorary Member of the Academy of Portuguese Language Schools of Architecture and Urbanism.

Álvaro Siza is one of the most important contemporary European architects and the main representative of the modern age in Portugal. He received the Pritzker Prize in 1992 for his life's work.