It is opportune to remember João Vieira.Today, because in our Gallery we welcome your works;Ever, as he is a plastic artist of unusual stature in the panorama of Portuguese arts, with a dimension that goes beyond the perimeter around which it has been usual - not to say vulgar - to delineate. From 1951, when he spent (a brief two years…) at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts, until his disappearance, which occurred almost six years ago, his legacy still needs wider dissemination and deeper study. Fortunately, we are pleased to note that João Vieira still arouses interest andexcites the curiosity...

In 1955, in Berlin, he started lithography and the use of the airbrush, in an environment in which professors trained in the Bauhaus and in German Expressionism predominated. In 1962, in Paris, he is one of the founders of the self-styled movement “Nouvelle Figuration” (*) also called “Narrative Figuration”, of which Erró is a member, among others. In 1966, he held his first individual exhibition in that city. In 1985, he settled in Vincenes, in a disused factory that he transformed into a studio and home. In the early 60s, from his airbrush works using cellulosic paint on canvas with...