Bernardo Bello | Das Heben der Leier

OPENING
July 5th 6-9pm

SHOW
July 6th-28th 2024

ARTIST TALK
July 13th 5pm

OPEN HOURS
Sat/ Sun 4-6pm and by appointment

 

 

 

Nur wer die Leier schon hob auch unter Schatten, darf das unendliche Lob ahnend erstatten. Nur wer mit Toten vom Mohn ass, von dem ihren, wird nicht den leisesten Ton wieder verlieren. Mag auch die Spieglung im Teich oft uns verschwimmen: Wisse das Bild. Erst in dem Doppelbereich werden die Stimmen ewig und mild. Aus: Die Sonette an Orpheus Rainer Maria Rilke (1922)

Who, in realms of shade, the lyre dares to raise, receives in ominous trade endless powers of prais. Who, with the dead, om poppy dine, need nevermore fear: the true sweetness in his rhyme shall never disappear. When the lagoon’s mirror pane reflects all unclear, recall the sign. Only in the dual domain can voices appear forever benign. From: Sonnets to Orpheus Rainer Maria Rilke (1922)

 

The Portuguese painter Bernardo Bello, born in Lisbon in 1988, has been living and working in
Berlin since 2021. At his first solo exhibition in Berlin at the TAPIR gallery, he is showing a new
series of oil paintings from recent years.
Viewers are invited to immerse themselves in a mythical world created by the artist.
Bernardo Bello’s works show a high degree of sensuality and sensitivity as well as originality in the
formal language: lines search for, define and shape space; sometimes playfully, sometimes with
calculation.
The artist’s works show a content-related and creative engagement with philosophical themes from
the myths of antiquity: love, hope and devotion, the human being and his relationship to nature and
the world of belief underlying this.

Antje Görner, July 2024