Homenagem a Mário Cesariny - Lisboa, Portugal - Murals on Waymarking.com

A mural made with hand painted tiles placed near the Bela Vista Park where Rock in Rio Lisboa is hosted.
This mural is a work by the Mozambique artist Inácio Matsinhe and an hommage to the Portuguese Poet and Paintor Mário Cesariny.
The mural depicts people and animals painted in a traditional African way. In the mural we can read the following verse:
"Queria de ti um país de Bondade e de Bruma
Queria de ti o mar de uma rosa de espuma"
("I want from you a country of Kindness and Mist
I want from you the sea of a rose made of foam")
The mural was made in 1996 when Cesariny was still alive (he died in 2006).

"Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos also known as Mário Cesariny (August 9, 1923, Lisbon, Portugal - November 26, 2006, Lisbon, Portugal) is among the most important Portuguese surrealist poets, having published several major works during a career spanning 50 years. Cesariny was also a painter, but his work became more centered on poetry in the 1950s." (From wikipedia)

"Inácio Matsinhe was born in Maxixe, Mozambique in 1945. He is one of the great names of today's Mozambican plastic arts.

Strongly connected to his home country, his paintings and ceramics scream with live and warm colours: reds, yellows and cobalt-blues and sometimes nostalgic violets and greens.

Inacio MatsinheMatsinhe enters the Decorative Arts School still very young, by the age of 17 and by 1976 he is awarded the first of two scholarships from the prestigious Gulbenkian Foundation. This opportunity to study abroad was absolutely influential in his career. Inácio Matsinhe first studied ceramics at the Pietro Vannucci Fine Arts Academy in Italy. In 1977 he attended the Polytechnic Institute Sir John Cass - School of Arts in London. That same year, Matsinhe opens his atelier in Alfama, Lisbon, where, besides teaching art, he offers other artists an exhibiton space.

Matsinhe has exhibited regularly since the 60's all over the world from Portugal and Spain to Great Britain (African Center- London) or the United States (World Surrealist Exibition - Chicago). His work is represented in several important national and international private collections but perhaps his most emblematic piece is the gigantic tile panel placed on one of the most important arteries in Lisbon."
(From africancontemporary.com)

City: Lisbon Location Name: Mural in Avenida Dr. Arlindo Vicente (Parque da Bela Vista) Artist: Inácio Matsinhe Date: December 1996 Media: Hand Painted Tiles Relevant Web Site: Not listed

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