{"id":116,"date":"2025-04-19T14:22:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romanticultura.pt\/?page_id=116"},"modified":"2025-11-15T13:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:17:07","slug":"obra-do-mes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/romanticultura.pt\/en\/obra-do-mes\/","title":{"rendered":"Artwork of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Novembro 2025<\/p>

Amor Perfeito<\/strong>
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Each month, Romanti Cultura highlights a special work.<\/p>

In April, we celebrated the colourful strength and unique expressiveness of the artist Sofia Areal.<\/p>

Visit us and discover the artistic universe of one of the most important painters of her generation.<\/p>

Sofia Areal is a Portuguese artist whose work is strong in terms of colour and with a special focus on non-geometric forms, with an organic and gestural content. As well as painting and drawing, her work includes collage, textile design and scenography.<\/p>


More information about the artist<\/b><\/p>

Sofia Areal began her artistic training at the Herefordshire College of Art & Design in the UK, attending the Textile Design course between 1978 and 1979 and the Foundation Course between 1979 and 1980. Her initial interest in the tapestry technique was directed towards painting and drawing, due to the time associated with the production process, where she found speed, the instant, and in them she found the freedom of impulse, surprise and accident, and the exploration of a unison relationship with supports and materials. In Portugal, he attended the\u00a0ateliers<\/em>\u00a0de pintura e gravura do Ar.Co, entre 1981 e 1983. Exp\u00f5e colectivamente desde 1982 e individualmente desde 1990.<\/p>

Her works are abstract compositions, overlapping and juxtaposing shapes and lines, between emptiness and fullness. Contrasts live in them, between separation and cosiness, between home and travelling, between withering and blossoming, between the weak and the brave, between sea and land. Day and night, life and death, heaven and the abyss. In dimensions that vary between large and small format, rectangular, square or round, he applies, on canvas and on paper, indiscriminately disorganising the codes of drawing and painting, graffiti, dry pastels, India ink, watercolour, acrylic paint, and elements resulting from cutting and collage. In his composition, he seeks a solar ideal, an aesthetic of beauty, of pleasure, of harmony, which he looks for in relationships of balance, between background and composition, between scratch and stain, between textures and smoothness, between opacities and transparencies, between the solid colours of a\u00a0palette<\/em>\u00a0em que predominam os vermelhos, os amarelos, os azuis, os negros e os brancos sem renunciar a presen\u00e7as de desdobramentos em cores secund\u00e1rias, e encontra nos contrastes formais que emergem do instinto do gesto declaradamente musculado, que inscrevem os pessoais.<\/p>

His works are part of the collections (selection):<\/b>\u00a0Modern Art Centre (CAM) of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; Serralves Foundation, Porto; Caixa Nova de Galicia, Vigo; FEVAL, C\u00e1ceres; Funchal Museum of Contemporary Art (MUDAS), Funchal, Carmona e Costa Foundation, Lisbon; Casa da Cerca - Contemporary Art Centre, Almada; Millennium BCP Foundation, Lisbon; Novo Banco Collection, Lisbon; PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon; Oriente Foundation, Lisbon; Leal Rios Foundation, Lisbon; Cachola Collection, Elvas; Fernando Ribeiro Collection, Abrantes; Lu\u00eds Ferreira Collection, Lisbon; Alberto Caetano Collection, Lisbon.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Amor Perfeito, 2021. Sofia Areal
T\u00e9cnica mista sobre papel, 122 x 92cm<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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OBRA DO M\u00caS Novembro 2025 Amor Perfeitode Sofia Areal A cada m\u00eas, uma obra especial ganha destaque, na Romanti Cultura. Em abril, celebramos a for\u00e7a crom\u00e1tica e a expressividade singular da artista Sofia Areal. Visite-nos e descubra o universo art\u00edstico de uma das mais importantes pintoras da sua gera\u00e7\u00e3o. Sofia Areal \u00e9 uma artista Portuguesa com um trabalho forte em termos crom\u00e1tico e com especial foco em formas n\u00e3o geom\u00e9tricas, com um teor org\u00e2nico e gestual. O seu trabalho abarca, para al\u00e9m da pintura e desenho, colagem, desenho t\u00eaxtil e cenografia. Mais informa\u00e7\u00e3o sobre a artista Sofia Areal inicia a forma\u00e7\u00e3o art\u00edstica no Herefordshire College of Art & Design, no Reino Unido, frequentando os cursos de Textile Design, entre 1978 e 1979, e o Foundation Course, entre 1979 e 1980. O interesse inicial pela t\u00e9cnica da tape\u00e7aria \u00e9 direcionado para a pintura e o desenho, em virtude do tempo associado ao processo de produ\u00e7\u00e3o, onde encontra a velocidade, o instante, e neles satisfaz a liberdade do impulso, da surpresa e do acidente, e a explora\u00e7\u00e3o de uma rela\u00e7\u00e3o un\u00edssona com os suportes e os materiais. Em Portugal, frequenta os\u00a0ateliers\u00a0de pintura e gravura do Ar.Co, entre 1981 e 1983. Exp\u00f5e colectivamente desde 1982 e individualmente desde 1990. Os seus trabalhos s\u00e3o de composi\u00e7\u00e3o abstracta em sobreposi\u00e7\u00f5es e justaposi\u00e7\u00f5es de formas e de tra\u00e7os, entre vazios e plenitudes. Neles vive o contraste, entre a separa\u00e7\u00e3o e o aconchego, entre a casa e a viagem, entre o murchar e o florescer, entre o d\u00e9bil e o bravo, entre mar e terra. Dia e noite, vida e morte, c\u00e9u e abismo. Em dimens\u00f5es que variam entre o grande e o pequeno formato, com forma rectangular, quadrada ou redonda, aplica, sobre tela e sobre papel, indiscriminadamente desorganizando os c\u00f3digos pr\u00f3prios do desenho e da pintura, grafites, past\u00e9is secos, tinta-da-china, aguarela, tinta acr\u00edlica, e elementos resultantes do recorte e da colagem. Na sua composi\u00e7\u00e3o, busca um ideal solar, uma est\u00e9tica do belo, do agrad\u00e1vel, do prazer, da harmonia, que procura nas rela\u00e7\u00f5es de equil\u00edbrios, entre fundo e composi\u00e7\u00e3o, entre risco e mancha, entre texturas e lisuras, entre opacidades e transpar\u00eancias, entre as cores s\u00f3lidas de uma\u00a0palette\u00a0em que predominam os vermelhos, os amarelos, os azuis, os negros e os brancos sem renunciar a presen\u00e7as de desdobramentos em cores secund\u00e1rias, e encontra nos contrastes formais que emergem do instinto do gesto declaradamente musculado, que inscrevem os pessoais. As suas obras integram as cole\u00e7\u00f5es (sele\u00e7\u00e3o):\u00a0Centro de Arte Moderna (CAM) da Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa; Funda\u00e7\u00e3o de Serralves, Porto; Caixa Nova da Galiza, Vigo; FEVAL, C\u00e1ceres; Museu de Arte Contempor\u00e2nea do Funchal (MUDAS), Funchal, Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Carmona e Costa, Lisboa; Casa da Cerca \u2014 Centro de Arte Contempor\u00e2nea, Almada; Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Millennium BCP, Lisboa; Cole\u00e7\u00e3o Novo Banco, Lisboa; Funda\u00e7\u00e3o PLMJ, Lisboa; Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Oriente, Lisboa; Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Leal Rios, Lisboa; Cole\u00e7\u00e3o Cachola, Elvas; Cole\u00e7\u00e3o Fernando Ribeiro, Abrantes; Cole\u00e7\u00e3o Lu\u00eds Ferreira, Lisboa; Cole\u00e7\u00e3o Alberto Caetano, Lisboa. Amor Perfeito, 2021. Sofia ArealT\u00e9cnica mista sobre papel, 122 x 92cm<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-116","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticultura.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticultura.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticultura.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticultura.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticultura.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/romanticultura.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2092,"href":"https:\/\/romanticultura.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions\/2092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticultura.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}