Victor Belém y sus foto-ficciones: Fernando Pessoa vs. Aleister Crowley
Like that of many others, the creative mind of Victor Belém (1938-2015) was captivated by the exceptional encounter between Fernando Pessoa and Aleister Crowley in Portugal in 1930. The artist from Cascais created a series of visual objects he called “photo-fictions”. Through each image, the series...
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| Language: | English |
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Brown University
2024-06-01
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| Series: | Pessoa Plural |
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| Online Access: | https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:e9s9kv64/PDF/ |
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| Summary: | Like that of many others, the creative mind of Victor Belém (1938-2015) was captivated by the exceptional encounter between Fernando Pessoa and Aleister Crowley in Portugal in 1930. The artist from Cascais created a series of visual objects he called “photo-fictions”. Through each image, the series reveals how Pessoa, the white magician, is heading towards a confrontation with Crowley, the black magician. Belém’s work reads and recreates, in a very personal key, the “magical” encounter, giving it life, depth, color, expressiveness, and, in a certain way, movement, as a theatrical and cinematic dimension is perceptible. |
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| ISSN: | 2212-4179 |