By: João Pinharanda
LISBON.- The present exhibition is a rare historical opportunity: it reveals to us unknown parts of the artist’s work (projects created from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, but never built until now). A concentration on painting, as well as a number of equally important issues connected with the art market (or its lack…), have conditioned the public evolution of Manuel Baptista’s work. In spite of not being the ones through which the artist created his image, the pieces now displayed share their subjects and forms with many of the drawings and paintings he would exhibit over the past decades: their key elements are bushes and trees, windows with landscapes, formal patterns based on elements drawn from nature, monochromatic paintings and shaped canvases, objects that become abstract