- Obras
- Pintura
- Fontes de Sintra
Fonte de Sintra
- N.º Inv.
- ADP204
- Data
- 1985
- Materiais e técnicas
- Tinta acrílica sobre tela
- Medidas
- 114 x 146 cm
- Proveniência
- Coleção privada
- Inscrições
«A. Dacosta»
[frente, quadrante inferior direito]«A. Dacosta
85»
[verso, quadrante superior esquerdo]«Fonte de Sintra»
[verso, quadrante superior esquerdo]
Esta obra, de 1985, foi exposta pela primeira vez na exposição retrospetiva de António Dacosta, organizada pela Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian e pela Casa de Serralves em 1988, e na altura, de acordo com o catálogo, pertencia à Galeria 111, tendo sido posteriormente adquirida à galeria por um colecionador particular.
Esta é uma das mais marcantes séries do pintor da década de 1980, onde o diferimento espacial e temporal da memória, enquanto evocação poética, é uma questão central. A série também foi das primeiras a incorporar elementos ou sinais de teor mais figurativo, bem como uma maior assimilação da picturalidade, e menos da colagem, sendo decisiva na gestação da mitografia dessa década. A série desenvolveu-se enquanto evocação de um lugar de onde advém a memória e a saudade, sendo recorrente até aos finais da sua produção. A fonte, cujo jato de água se firmava como o verdadeiro signo identificador da série, através de um brasão simplificado num arabesco simétrico, convoca dimensões de purificação e origem. Para Dacosta, as Fontes de Sintra «são metáforas amorosas», e Sintra o «lugar onde melhor senti a magia do jato das águas… o amor em suma» (António Dacosta, declaração no filme António Dacosta – Pintor Europeu das Ilhas, 1984). A peça apresenta uma informalidade da mancha e um escurecimento cromático que se adequa à tendência do pintor na data da sua execução.
Exposições
![](https://cdn.gulbenkian.pt/dacosta/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/08/Biblio_Antonio_Dacosta_CAM_1988-576x360.jpg)
![](https://cdn.gulbenkian.pt/dacosta/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/08/Biblio_Antonio_Dacosta_Exposicao_de_Pintura_1988-576x360.jpg)
![](https://cdn.gulbenkian.pt/dacosta/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/08/Biblio_Antonio_Dacosta_Acores_1995-576x360.jpg)
![](https://cdn.gulbenkian.pt/dacosta/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/08/Biblio_Pintura_de_Antonio_Dacosta_1999-576x360.jpg)
- Individual
Pintura de António Dacosta / Paintings of António Dacosta
1999 / Galeria de Exposições Temporárias do Leal do Senado, Macau
![](https://cdn.gulbenkian.pt/dacosta/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/08/Biblio_AntonioDacosta_Fundacao_de_Serralves_2006_ADP257-576x360.jpg)
![](https://cdn.gulbenkian.pt/dacosta/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/08/Biblio_Antonio_Dacosta_Scene_Ouverte_2007-576x360.jpg)
- Individual
António Dacosta. Scène Ouverte
2007 / Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian – Délégation em France, Paris
![](https://cdn.gulbenkian.pt/dacosta/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/08/Biblio_Antonio_Dacosta_1914-2014_CAM_2014-576x360.jpg)
![](https://cdn.gulbenkian.pt/dacosta/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/08/Biblio_Peinture_Portugaise_Contemporaine_dans_une_Collecion_Privee_1989-1.jpg)
- Coletiva
Dacosta. Pomar. Cargaleiro. Jorge Martins. 4 Peintres Portugais à Paris
1989 / Palais de Tokyo, Paris
![](https://cdn.gulbenkian.pt/dacosta/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/08/Biblio_Tendencies_in_the_Contemporary_Portuguese_Art_1989.jpg)
Bibliografia
![](https://cdn.gulbenkian.pt/dacosta/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/04/1999_11_jun_Cartaz_Ponto_-Final_p19.jpg)
Cartaz. O que há. António Dacosta. Ponto Final, Macau, 11 jun 1999, p. 19
Antologia Crítica
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