Vieira da Silva, the eye of the labyrinth

On the occasion of the thirty years of the disappearance of this immense artist, the exhibition at the Cantini museum illustrates the importance of Maria Helena Vieira da Silva in the reinvention of modern art and the contemporaneity of the concepts she raises.

“In my painting, we see this uncertainty, this terrible labyrinth. This labyrinth is my heaven, but maybe in the middle of this labyrinth we will find a very small certainty. Maybe that's what I'm looking for. » VIEIRA DA SILVA, 1980

The catalog illustrates the key stages of his career marked by a relentless questioning of perspective, urban transformations, architectural dynamics and even the musicality of the pictorial touch.

“I don’t generally like works that display their complications. I prefer uncluttered works that let you sense, guess in the distance, the complexity of things in the world. »
VIEIRA DA SILVA, 1987

Vieira da Silva, the eye of the labyrinth
Lisbon-Paris: The Cities of Vieira Da Silva
Vieira da Silva, A Life in Painting
Kinds of Spaces
Vieira Da Silva, Mutltiaceted and Singular, Between Painting and Poetry
Ossature / Exil / Perspective / Concept / Light

Exhibition Catalogue Vieira da Silva. The eye of the labyrinth, presented at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon (16 december 2022 -3 april 2023) and at the Cantini museum in Marseille (June 10 - September 25, 2022).