Cruzeiro Seixas

Artur Manuel Rodrigues do Cruzeiro Seixas (born December 3, 1920 in Amadora ) is a Portuguese painter, draftsman, sculptor and poet. He is one of the most important representatives of Surrealism in Portugal .

Life

At the age of 14 he attended the art school Escola de Artes Decorativas António Arroio in Lisbon, where he worked alongside a. a. Júlio Pomar also met Mário Cesariny , with whom he had a long-standing, deep friendship. After a neorealistic-expressionist phase he joined the artist group Grupo Surrealista de Lisboa in 1942 and from 1947 to 1950 the group Os Surrealistas , as they called themselves at exhibitions , which had split off from it. In 1949 he took part in their first exhibition Exposição dos Surrealistas in Lisbon, alongside names such as Mário Cesariny, Alexandre O'Neill , Marcelino Vespeira , António Mário Lisboa , Mário-Henrique Leiria and others. a. The title of the exhibition catalog was censored by the Estado Novo regime because it contained a sentence calling for an election against fascism ( Portuguese é absolutamente indispensável votar contra o fascismo , dt .: It is absolutely essential to vote against fascism) , and aimed at the opposition election campaign of Norton de Matos . In 1950 Seixas took part in a second joint exhibition Exposição dos Surrealistas , with works that showed Lautréamont's lasting influence on him.

In 1950, Seixas left Lisbon and from then on earned his living in the merchant navy . He mainly traveled to the Far East, particularly Hong Kong and Macau , Timor , India and the Portuguese possessions of Goa , Daman and Diu there . In 1952, Seixas settled in Angola . He exhibited there several times and worked a. a. for the Museum of Luanda .

In 1964, Seixas returned to Lisbon, under the impression of the increasing Portuguese colonial war in Angola. In 1967 he was awarded by the eminent Gulbenkian Foundation and he exhibited in Lisbon in 1967 and 1970. He attracted attention with works that remained true to the surrealist dream.

In 1972 he joined the international art movement Phases . In 1980 he settled in the Algarve , where he worked for various galleries. In 1984 his works were shown in the exhibition Phases, Permanance du Regard Surréaliste in Lyon , together with works by Lam , Alechinsky , Arp , Baj , Bellmer , Dalí , Miró and others. a.

Cruzeiro Seixas now lives in Lisbon and is considered one of the most important surrealist artists in the history of Portugal. His works are u. a. in the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian , Museu do Chiado , the National Library Biblioteca Nacional and the Museu Machado de Castro . In 1999, Seixas donated a large part of his art collection to the Fundação Cupertino de Miranda , after he had bequeathed most of his written work, documentation and notes to the National Library's Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro in 1993 .

Literature (selection)

• Luis Pacheco (text), Cruzeiro Seixas (illustrations): Comunidade . Perve Global 2007 (limited to 410 numbered and signed copies)
• Cruzeiro Seixas: Homenagem à Realidade . Escrituras 2005 (Brazil), ISBN 978-85-7531-164-6
• Mário Cezariny: De Mário Cesariny for Artur Manuel do Cruzeiro Seixas . Assírio & Alvim 2009, ISBN 978-972-37-1462-3
• Rui-Mário Gonçalves: Cruzeiro Seixas . Editorial Caminho 2007, ISBN 978-972-21-1891-0
• Various: Cruzeiro Seixas . Edições Asa 2000, ISBN 978-972-41-2436-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Cruzeiro Seixas in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
• Literature by and about Cruzeiro Seixas in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Biography Cruzeiro Seixas on www.artelection.com (Portuguese, as of 2005)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Christoph Wilhelmi: Artist groups in Western and Northern Europe including Spain and Portugal since 1900. A manual. Hauswedell, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-7762-1006-4 , pp. 555-557.
2. ↑ Cruzeiro Seixas at www.the-artists.org , accessed June 26, 2013
3. ↑ Vladimiro Nunes: Cruzeiro Seixas: "A minha vida foi uma experiência muito bonita". In: Agulha. Revista de cultura. Fortalezza, São Paulo, No. 67, January / February 2009. ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Interview with Cruzeiro Seixas; Portuguese, accessed June 27, 2013.  
4. ↑ Cruzeiro Seixas at www.artfact.com , accessed June 26, 2013
5. ↑ Person encyclopedia Quem é Quem - Portugueses Célebres . 1st edition, Temas & Debates, Lisbon 2009, ISBN 978-989-644-047-3 , p. 477.
6. ↑ Entry in Infopédia , the online encyclopedia of the Porto Editora , accessed on June 26, 2013.
7. ↑ DVD supplement to the documentation Cruzeiro Seixas - aproveitar o acaso . Edições Cão Menor 2011.
8. ↑ Cruzeiro Seixas on Movimento Arte Contemporanea , accessed June 26, 2013