Pancho Guedes. Vitruvius Mozambicanus

Pancho Guedes’ exhibition brings together his prodigious, surprisingly varied and original œuvre of drawings, paintings and sculptures and shows how these contributed to the forms, ideas and spirit of the many different and personal architectures he created. His connection with Africa and, above all, with Mozambique allowed Pancho to liberate himself from the constraints and restrictive ideas that dominate the mainstream of the art world.

Pancho’s architectures range from extravagantly opulent and personal explorations of space and form where the plastic arts blend and merge with one another without discernable boundaries to austere, sparse buildings designed to meet demanding and stringent financial conditions. In every case the resulting creations are in no way diminished by the circumstances that bring them to life. All his works are imbued with distinct individual souls that speak and smile proudly even when diminished through age and rough use.

Pancho continues to draw, improve and make models of his buildings long ago completed for habitation. Relationships with the ongoing life of his many works is freed from narrow purpose and they find their way more easily into sculpture, paintings drawings and exaggerated conversations.