Homeland

José de Guimarães tells, like a child, the myths of our western culture. Particularly ours, the Portuguese, although he deviates from their epic or tragic use. We are offered stories converted into codes full of humor that invite us to think about the game of the world. The great stories are dead. There is no reason to mourn them. So thinks José de Guimarães or his painting for him. From the All inaccessible or forever dispersed, he keeps the sense of stories whose fragments remained in our memory. (Eduardo Lourenço)