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Évora portuguese sculpture 1 november 1964 maria leal da costa
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maria leal da costa

maria ana de sousa leal da costa -lrb- Évora , portugal , november , 1964 -rrb- , daughter of an artist mother and an architect father , she studied in the superior school of fine arts of lisbon and exhibits her work since 1994 .
has a studio in marvão , in quinta do barrieiro , alentejo , portugal , where she lives and works since 1999 and where she is developing her project , alentejo sculpture park .
the books open doors for her to fly to unknown stops , where she finds much of her inspiration , showing how they are an open window to the world .
traveling companion of camões , fernão mendes pinto , fernando pessoa , sophia de mello breyner , gonçalo m. tavares , among other writers , she carves her digressions on the iron , marble and bronze , inviting the public to join her in her flights , to transcend , discover and penetrate into the core , in order to contemplate and transmit , demystify and to make us the pedagogy of a fragile planet but always open to all of us .
she struggles with hard materials , as if it were paper , with its natural expressions , the oxides , the textures , the colours or the fractures , in a permanent asceticism to transmit the beautiful , the unimaginable that thrill us , moves us and transport us to a path full of endless discoveries .
it takes us to an enchantment to hear the resonance of a world unknown to us and where we want to penetrate into an infinite space of its dreams , into free imagination .
her works are part of numerous public and private collections , in portugal , belgium , spain , china , united states , lithuania , italy .
`` the stone flies , floats , runs , speaks ... just like the words ! ''
, -lrb- maria leal da costa -rrb- .
