{"id":365,"date":"2023-07-28T09:41:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T09:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/?p=365"},"modified":"2023-08-04T14:40:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T14:40:56","slug":"mario-dionisio-center-lisbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/2023\/07\/28\/mario-dionisio-center-lisbon\/","title":{"rendered":"Mar\u00edo Dion\u00edsio Center, Lisbon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Visiting the wonderful city of Lisbon, equally menaced by decay and ruthless development, we visited Casa da Achada.<\/a> Situated in a part of Lisbon where misery and shiny renovation is found side by side, this cultural venue is dedicated to the life and achievements of M\u00e1rio Dion\u00edsio (1916-1993), a teacher, writer, painter and activist virtually unknown outside of Portugal.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Encontros casuais, 1992; De surpresa em surpresa, 1991<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The center offers access to the library of the late artist and his wife, and is a space for exhibitions, concerts and readings.
M\u00e1rio Dion\u00edsio worked as a French and Portuguese teacher during the long years of the Salazar dictatorship, when he and his wife were active in the political opposition. His writings include short stories and poems, unfortunately largely untranslated, as well as art theory and criticism.<\/p>\n\n\n

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After figurative beginnings in the 1940s in the post-cubist tradition of Picasso and Leger (see “Reuni\u00e3o Clandestina, 1947, top middle in the image at the head of the page), M\u00e1rio Dion\u00edsio switched to abstraction. Initially he used a softly angular pictorial language and intense colors, sometimes evoking shapes of the physical world such as interiors or bookcases (see “Campon\u00eas Armado, 1979 middle left in the image at the head of the page). The late 1980s and early 1990s brought about an impressive explosion of his creativity and his paintings began to feature hovering irregular shapes in bright daytime hues. These powerfully lyrical paintings radiate an incredible lightness and serenity (see also “O regresso”, 1989, middle right in the image at the head of the page). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His art marks a powerful and internationally still under-appreciated contribution to 20th century European painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Visiting the wonderful city of Lisbon, equally menaced by decay and ruthless development, we visited Casa da Achada. Situated in a part of Lisbon where misery and shiny renovation is found side by side, this cultural venue is dedicated to the life and achievements of M\u00e1rio Dion\u00edsio (1916-1993), a teacher, writer, painter and activist virtually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visited-exhibitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}