Art Exhibition in Silves
Silves Art Exhibition
Running from 21 June to 27 September, one of the events in this summer’s Allgarve cultural program is the Exhibition: “Blink – print works from the CAM collection”* taking place in Silves at the House of Islamic and Mediterranean Culture.
The sub-title of this exhibition of engravings: “Deciding in the blink of an eye”, originates from a story about the authenticity of a Greek statue Kouros*, acquired in 1985 by the J. Paul Getty Museum**. The last decade has seen a maturing of photographic and digital image manipulation, but from its inception engraving broadened the sphere of artistic creation, by enabling works to be repeated through stamping so that they could be accessed and owned by a larger audience.