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Communicating Vases 2024

Communicating Vases   The origin of the artist’s work is shrouded in mystery. Obviously, we can always list a series of references or identify a ...

Palimpsest 2024

The Matter of Painting by José Sousa Machado   “Listen to the fragile brightness music leaves as it burns in the dunes once, I was ...

Degree Zero 2023

the DEGREE ZERO of all things   “…a way of certain silence has of existing;  it deliberately foregoes any elegance or ornament”   On a ...

One-Way Street 2022

Suspend, feel, look     The “Rua de mão única” installation is a project that Catarina Pinto Leite has been developing for several years. ...

Attic 2017

“I distribute these images In front of me, as if upon a terrace. Around the edge of the porch, the light with its enormous weight ...

in-ter-mit-ten-ce 2015

Catarina Pinto Leite has been showing her work at solo exhibitions since the mid-nineties and her artistic creation has focused mostly on painting. With remarkable ...

Forces of Nature 2010

Regarding the painting by Catarina Pinto Leite presented in this exhibit, one aspect which is immediately visible, and which holds great meaning, is that the ...

Bombart text 2009

Where am I right now, I wonder? “…I do landscapes with what I feel” said Fernando Pessoa. I often question myself, and am often questioned, ...

Inhospitable land 2009

Catarina Pinto Leite tells me that, for these paintings, she had in mind the tragedy that recently hit the Italian city of Aquila. In her ...

A smooth, silvery light 2007

Behind paintings, there are always stories. Often, artists hide them and take refuge in a silence particular to that world of shapes and colors where ...