Acquisition Prize, III Exposição de Artes Plásticas da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1986.

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My own idea, the idea that drove me into this project was that of taking evidence, using molded paper of a pre-historical engraving made by a pioneer colleague, back in the time when paper was yet to be discovered. It was the end of a cycle.

The word Neolithic is not used here in its historical sense – an era prior to any incision making – but to indicate a new way of stone engraving, of a new print spawned from a lithic source.

For all different reasons, this series remained unpublished. Each multiple has only one or two proofs.

A work from this series was awarded with the Grande Prémio de Gravura da Bienal de Vila Nova de Cerveira in 1982.

 

 

David de Almeida

18 de Agosto de 2010