Scoop
Cold War
Gonçalo Pena

In this Scoop, we feature twenty-one previously unpublished drawings by Gonçalo Pena. His work, which combines intensity, abundance and movement, both registers the artist’s presence in the world and captures the reflection of the world on the artist himself. These drawings by this fertile creator of images and signs come from one continuous sketchbook. They are exclamations which speak clearly and enigmatically of the Aristotelian three kingdoms of nature: animal, vegetable and mineral. Like marks left in the passing of time, they bear witness to Gonçalo Pena's roving gaze. The imagination behind the images is his way of putting himself on a level with what is happening in the world.

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