Contexturas - Armanda Alves e Luísa Fresta
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Contexturas - Armanda Alves e Luísa Fresta

Livros de Ontem is pleased to present you the book "Contexturas", with paintings by Armanda Alves "illustrated" by the stories of Luísa Fresta.

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Livros de Ontem is pleased to present you the book "Contexturas", with paintings by Armanda Alves "illustrated" by the stories of Luísa Fresta.

"Contexturas" includes reproductions of canvases by Armanda Alves, a plastic artist with a vast work made public through numerous exhibitions, individual and collective, inside and outside its first frontiers: Angola and Portugal. Luísa Fresta, an artist and cultist of the word, follows the form of the colored footprints to retell these constructions according to her own intuition. From the screens were born stories, some of which have become almost autonomous, while remaining connected to the matrix figure through an indissoluble cord. Just as the pictures imply a shared logic, so too do the histories, no matter how disparate they may seem, have a mathematical link to them.

The color, the line, the relief and the texture thus join the story to bring you a palpable universe where art is confused with the fragility of the human condition: through these lines we fly affections, restlessness, memories, betrayals, people's destinies Banal exposed to unique circumstances, in a dynamics of its own that is intended rhythmically, like life; Sometimes we touch the horror, the fantastic and the humor, the tenderness of the unsaid, the obsessive violence of the silences and the pitch of the words. "Contexturas" is meant to be a book of fusion of tales and textures, in which all languages converge to the eyes of the readers.

NOTE: The book has the value of 13€ during crowdfunding campaign and 15€ after closing the same.

Livros de Ontem publication. 

Paintings by Armanda Alves.

Text by Luísa Fresta.

Editing and proofreading by João Batista | Livros de Ontem.

Cover and pagination by Nádia Amante | Livros de Ontem.

1st edition limited to 200 copies. 

All copies are numbered and signed.

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About the author

Armanda Alves, an Angolan Portuguese, has lived in Portugal for some years and for a long time painted for pleasure, for himself and friends. After having held the first exhibition in Luanda at Galeria Celamar in May 2008, it was a very gratifying experience because it gave it a whole different meaning and an even greater passion for art itself. All the energy that goes on the screen, the game of colors is a huge pleasure for the artist. Being self-taught, she has encountered several different techniques and is always in constant discovery and in an inner growth. Looking for new techniques to express his work, in a discovery of the world that surrounds him, through the use of tools and tools of painting, among which, the painting of screens applying only the fingers and the absence of brushes. Being at the moment a maturity of his technique in order to define a line guiding of his artistic work. Armanda, absolutely passionate about her paintings, self-taught, with a strikingly abstract line, and eclectic, whether in the forms, the technique and the supports she uses, gives us images of perfect delight through light, colors and Language so serene and poetic, stylized in each of his works.

Luísa Fresta, born in Portugal, lived most of her childhood and adolescence in Angola, a country with which she maintains ties of citizenship and cultural and family involvement. She has been living in Portugal since 1993.
She studied civil engineering in France, practiced the profession for some years until she devoted himself to translation and more recently to writing.
In 1998 participated in short story contest "Expo 98 words" in which saw his tale Crime published; In 2013 she was ranked 2nd in the II Licinho Campos Prize for Love Poems with the poem Sonnet do Amor no Feminino. She obtained the 2nd prize in the 1st International Literature Contest of Alacib, in the category "Chronic" with the text Other Championships. Her poem Perhaps was considered one of the 50 best presented in the contest and included in a collection published by the Academia Jacarehyense de Letras. Her poem "Little Ticket" was selected to integrate an anthology published by Chiado Editora. Her chronicle "São Paulo of the Assumption of Loanda" was chosen for inclusion in a collection edited by the House of the Brazilian Poet of Praia Grande-SP. In 2016 she joined, along with seven other authors, an anthology dedicated to the theme of mental health (The role of Aurélie), edited by Livros de Ontem.
He writes biweekly since 2013 on the portal O Gazzeta, and also publishes on the Entrementes- Revista Digital de Cultura and the newspaper Artes & Contextos.
As a film critic, he maintains opinion articles on the film review website Africiné.
In August 2016 he was a member of the jury of the pre-selection committee of the pan-African representation of the Festival l'Arbre d'Or.

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Through Crowdpublishing, Livros de Ontem publishing has the opportunity to develop the work of new authors, risk new concepts and improve writers remuneration.

Thus, Livros de Ontem publishing does not make any direct profit from Crowdpublishing campaigns. All funds raised are intended to the production of books and improving the sustainability of our operation.

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