5ª Essência, Mosteiro de Batalha, Portugal 2014
Coluna 6m x 1,05m x 1,24m,
It is this relationship with primordiality you can
find one of the possibilities of reading the work of this artist. Having as a
foundation of classical references - the
natural elements, landscape, figurative, Schittek approaching, slowly (and
throughout the work of the author has a
slow determinant character ) of the
most basic formal elements in a regressive
process in which the basic geometric forms, the chromaticism
and coloratura carry us into the realm of enjoyment of childhood, and invite
the most primitive of looks: one who, marvelling, wonders.
Cerâmica Criativa, Cencal, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal 2014
Cerâmica Criativa, Cencal, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal 2014
We are clearly in the territory of the pleasure of
establishing transported to the challenge of the pleasure of who appropriates.
Solar paint, so even when crossed by periods of darker shades. Painting (and tiles) from an artist, a movement so characteristic in the history of art, discovering the South the fundamentals of his work.
Solar paint, so even when crossed by periods of darker shades. Painting (and tiles) from an artist, a movement so characteristic in the history of art, discovering the South the fundamentals of his work.
Not coincidentally, in Schittek dominate the issues
related to the sea, earth, sun, repeatedly using the large format.
For a child a sheet of paper is also enormous. Progressively, the painter has approached a sharper picture , in a journey of one coherence happily shaken by the ability to reformulate and constant exploration. Again the artist reveals the extent to which allows a possible return to childhood.
For a child a sheet of paper is also enormous. Progressively, the painter has approached a sharper picture , in a journey of one coherence happily shaken by the ability to reformulate and constant exploration. Again the artist reveals the extent to which allows a possible return to childhood.
We are in, therefore, before a work marked by demand, not conceptualized but "found" of a period of time. Time to be happy. moving in a field of pictorial language but wider than the contemporaries, founded on tradition and having the desire to surprise characteristics of the modern, the work of Thomas Schittek spontaneously generates a desire first: try to be happy.
Manuel
Margarido