Rosario Rebello De Andrade

STATEMENT
Celestial charts

Speculum (mirror) gave the name to speculation: originally to speculate had the meaning of observing the sky and star movements, with the help of a mirror.
Sidus (star) gave also the name to consideration, whose etymological
meaning is to observe constellations.
Those two abstract words have their roots in the study of stars reflected in mirrors.
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What does the mirror reflect?




Dicionary of Symbols
(translated from the portuguese version)
Jean Chevalier
Alain Gheerbrandt
José Olympio Editora, 1982
edition


«Cartas Celestes» appear in the context of a project for the Paradise of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. After an intense period researching Dantes work, Rosário Rebello de Andrade arrives at an approach of Dante's vision, seen from a contemporary point of view.

In a first phase of research, she investigates other artists' work which have in the past referred to the three phases of the Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise, such as Botticelli, William Blake or Gustave Doré.

It is in this phase that important decisions where taken: her approach shouldn't be an illustration of the Comedy, yet more centered in a global vision of the theme and should preserv...

1988/93 Ar.Co, Centro de Arte e Comunicao Visual, Lisbon.1993 Luso-American Foundation Schollarship in U.S.A,University of Massachusetts, Keramik Department.1994/95 2-year Schollarship from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Internationalen Summeracademy for Visual Arts, Convento da Arrbida, Portugal1994/97 Teaching Drawing and Painting in Ar.Co,Centro de Arte e Comunicao Visual, Lisbon.
SOLO EXIBITIONS:2011 Interventionen in Raum, Schloss Zeiilitzheim, Germany. 2012 Cartas Celestes, Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon. 2009 Architectures.Artists.Tours.Landscapes, Galeria Alecrim50, Lisbon.2007 QUELLE PERLE BELLE, Schweinfurt.2003 Painting, Atelier & Galerie Andi Schmitt, Randersacker.1996 Installation, Botanic Museum, Lisbon;Romance Mudo (Mute Romance), Galeria Diferenca, Lisbon;1992 Painting, Galeria Quadrum, Lisbon;Drawing, Galeria Diferena, Lisbon;1988 Painting, Palcio Galveias, Lisbon.GROUP EXIBITIONS (selection)GERMANY:2008 Triennale Schweinfurt, Kunsthalle Schweinfurt.2007 Sparkasse Mainfranken, Wrzburg.Portraits, Galerie LS-LandskronSchneidzick, Nrnberg. 2005 Neue Impulse, Galerie LS-LandskronSchneidzick, Nrnberg.2004 Zuhause in zwei Kulturen, LGA, Nrnberg;NNKunstpreis der Nrnberger Nachrichten, Kunsthaus, Nrnberg.2003 ...