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Solo Magia is a book that I weaved/wrote along Indian writer Monali Roy and that is illustrated by some of the best international artists that I know of and with whom I worked in the past, am working in the present and will definitely work in the future.
It depicts love throughout ages...
It must be served along an infusion tea with oranges and apples in the company of a "pastel de nata" with coffee and a vintage port wine cup.
It follows ancient Portuguese Indian empire roots...
It tells about Indian folklore and even lost manuscripts that were sent to the Indian Ocean in Sankrist and to the Atlantic Ocean in ancient Portuguese language.
It calculates the path that Durga Puja, Vishnu, Maya, Brahma, Shiva, Camões, Vasco da Gama, Afonso de Albuquerque took in order to embrace Buda inside Nirvana's state.
It's fun...
It's not only a narrative...
It's a love story...
It's the chewing gum that you love to chew...
It's a love story passed in several cities in the world...
It's a reflection of what the world should be...
It displays not only love, but also lust for life, for human bodies that have more than one identity...
It features several women who are not only writer's muses/partners but also objects of art...
It turns dreams into reality inside an odyssey around the world...
It displays more than a football game while converting it into art...
It tells a bit the story of Jesus Christ's holy grail and the Bengali tiger as a dominant animal species.
It depicts and dissects a food dish named Rogan Josh and another one named "Francesinha".
It's not a corpse because it clearly mentions life itself in planet Earth's biosphere.
Solo Magia is also an exhibition that is being shown at Institute Camões in New Delhi from 14th October to 6th December of 2024 in embassy of Portugal, Camões institute located at
4, Panchsheel Marg, Block B, Diplomatic Enclave, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, Delhi 110021, India
Contacts
Phone number: 0091 11 4602 5135
Website: https://www.camoes.in
Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/PortugueseEmbassyCulturalCentre
Instagram page:
https://www.instagram.com/camoes_novadeli?igsh=Y3BxcjJwMG8yOWpu
Some Indian writers, singers and artists have already visited it and the feedback is astonishing.
It's funny that at the same time that the exhibition is being held appeared in it Portuguese writer Alexandra Lucas Coelho that came to India to participate in a European writers’ encounter called "Long Night of Literatures" organized by EUNIC at the end of September (Delhi and Kolkata) and she decided to stay there writing and travelling for another month. On the last day of her Journey in India, she joined the Camões - Portuguese Cultural Centre the 25th of October (4.30pm) in a talk about this transformative experience that will translate soon in a couple of new books (one fictional and one non-fictional). The writer talked with Monali about her writing and books along Solo Magia's concept.
She says that I'm big in India and that I must fly there inside a writing tour and I don't know what to say most of the times to her.
Monali isn't only a tales weaver, she took care of all details in the exhibition along her daughter Reetun and she even told me that students and institute's staff helped her.
The feedback that we're having is excellent, so for now (like always in my life), I don't know if my place is in India or Portugal, Europe or Asia.
I know that I'm made of flesh, bones and a beating heart and I really love to use it in life.
Many thanks to all international artists who I worked with in the past and the artists that make part of this illustrated book and exhibition that are:
MR ED, Pablo Burman and Martin Arrizabalaga from Argentina
Henrik Kim Herr from Denmark
Terhi Ekebom from Finland
Walter Minus from France
Bernardino Costantino, Luca Pozza, Marco Polenta, Rolando Ciccatelli and Stefano Zattera from Italy
Lars Henkel from Germany
John Kurokawa from Japan
Gaston Ortiz from Mexico
Bartosz Jekiel and Nikodem Cabala from Poland
João Sequeira and Paulo Pinto from Portugal
Branko Djukic Milivoj Vukjevic from Serbia
Lars Erik Sjunesson, Max Andersson and Knut Larsson from Sweden
Eduardo Alvarado Sanchez Cortez and Jon Anderson Azapola from Spain
Igger Bigger and Artur Kukhta from Ukraine
I've also pitched to this exhibition a comic book strip named “More than a love story babe” that is a series of previously published and worldwide exhibited comic strips created and written by myself in several world cities along fifty five international artists that are:
Mister Ed - Argentine artist - episode taking place in Barcelona - Spain.
Fidel Martiñez Nadal - Spanish artist - episode taking place in Le Mans - France.
Pedro Espinosa - Spanish artist - episode taking place in London - England.
Magdalena Minko - Polish artist - episode taking place in Warsaw - Poland
Brao - Brazilian artist - episode taking place in São Paulo - Brazil.
Sandra Hernandez - episode taking place in Milan - Italy.
Toni Benages Gallard - episode taking place in Santiago do Chile - Chile.
John Kurokawa - episode taking place in Kyoto - Japan.
Felipe Navarro - episode taking place in Madrid - Spain
Paulo Pinto - episode taking place in Porto - Portugal.
Igger Bigger - episode taking place in Kiev - Ukraine.
Rolando Cicatelli - episode taking place in Porto - Portugal.
Artur Kukhta - episodes taking place in Moscow and Saint Petersburg in Russia, Vilnius and Kaunas in Lithuania, California in U.S.A, Porto in Portugal, Kiev in Ukraine, Helsinki in Finland and Madrid in
Spain.
Thanks also to the following artists
Canadian artist - Stan Wany.
Italian artists - Salvatore Galati and Bernardino Costantino.
Brazilian artists - Alex Korolkovas and Fernanda Guedes.
Spanish artists - Santiago Sequeiros, Ruben Pellejero, Chema Garcia, Daniel Esteve, Eduardo Alvarado,
Cesar Moragues, Alberto Pons and Sonia Pulido.
Austrian artist - Nicolas Mahler.
Portuguese artists - Ana Biscaia and Dario Duarte.
Swedish artists - Max Andersson and Nicolas Krizan.
British artist - Hunt Emerson, Dave McKean, James Harvey, Glenn Fabry and Brian Bolland.
German artist - Lars Henkel.
Polish artist - Chris Chalik.
Serbian artist - Milivoj Vukjevic and Svetlana Seferovic.
French artists - Walter Minus, Edmund Baudouin and Barthelemy Nobili.
Argentine artists - Patricia Breccia, Alejandra Sanguinetti, Pablo Burman, Carlos Dearmas and Quique
Alcatena.
American artist - George Pratt, Justine Mara Anderson, David Laski, Sam Henderson, Brian Biggs, Bob
Burden, Jeffrey Alan Love and Paul Pope who provided me with several artistic extras to be included in
this graphic narrative.
Special thanks to Monali Roy (from India), Janina Barabaş, Ksenia Martynova, Mademoiselle ZhuZhu, Olga Brezhneva, Irina, Alexandra Zarkhaya, Daria Pozdeeva, Mascara,Elena Pavlenka, Kitty Orlova, Polina Dobrinina, Irina, Svetlana Zombierella Nagaeva, Lana Conner (from Russia), Dovile Dambrauskaite (from Lithuania), Ineta Miglane (from Latvia), Didi Wray (from Argentina) , Laura Manuel (from Portugal), Isabel Berg (from Denmark), Sue Mc Ennis (from U.S.A) and Terhi Ekebom (from Finland.) for being my muses while being artists/simple women within endless nights of provided inspiration inside this duet tango salty love story taking place in a tiny pale blue dot named Earth in the universe.
New Delhi has a good art exhibition featuring two huge books with artworks by some of the best international artists that I know of.
In this exhibition, writers Me and Monali Roy want to show to New Delhi inhabitants a simple mix of what's love and affection in today's world through art inside the before mentioned books...
Hoping that every single visitor of it can feel inside him or her all feelings and emotions that this narrative can trigger inside a single human being.
Saudade and Amor aren't simply words in this exhibition.
Me and Monali are planning for this exhibition to turn into a tour inside India and ancient Portuguese Asian empire.
Below are pics of the exhibition and the 2 books being exhibited there also.
26th October 2024
Manuel
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Monali Roy inside an Indian taxi going to embassy of Portugal in New Delhi - India
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At the embassy of Portugal in New Delhi - India
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Monali hanging the first artworks
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| Artworks by Italian artist Stefano Zattera and Swedish artist Max Anderson based on Manuel's physical structure |
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| Artworks by Polish artist Bartosz Jekiel and Ukrainian artist Igger Bigger based on Manuel and Finnish artist Terhi Ekebom's physical structure |
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| Artworks by Ukrainian artist Artur Kukhta and Japanese artist John Kurokawa based on Manuel, Monali Roy and Finnish artist Terhi Ekebom's physical structure |
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Artwork by Ukrainian artist Artur Kukhta based on Manuel and Monali Roy's physical structure along unpublished text for Delhi's exhibition
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| Artworks by Serbian artist Milivoj Vukjevic based on Manuel and Finnish artist Terhi Ekebom's looks along and artwork by Spanish artist Eduardo Alvarado based on Manuel's physical structure |
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| Artworks by German artist Lars Henkel along and artwork by Indian artist Tohit Mitro |
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| Artworks by Ukrainian artist Artur Kukhta featuring Manuel and Mascara's physical structure along an artwork by Italian artist Rolando Cicatelli featuring Manuel's physical structure |
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Comic strip pages of "more than a love story babe" written by Manuel with art by Argentine artist Mr Ed being set in Barcelona - Spain, Spanish artist Pedro Espinosa set in London - England, Japanese artist John Kurokawa set in Kyoto - Japan, Spanish artist Sandra Hernandez set in Milan - Italy, Ukrainian artist Artur Kukhta set in Moscow and Porto
 | | Comic strip pages of "more than a love story babe" written by Manuel with art by Spanish artist Fidel Martiñez Nadal being set in Le Mans - France and by Ukrainian artist Artur Kukhta being set in Porto |
 | Comic strip pages of "more than a love story babe" written by Manuel with art by Argentine artist Mr Ed being set in Barcelona - Spain, Spanish artist Pedro Espinosa set in London - England, Japanese artist John Kurokawa set in Kyoto - Japan, Spanish artist Sandra Hernandez set in Milan - Italy, Ukrainian artist Artur Kukhta set in Moscow and Porto, Spanish artist Felipe Navarro set in Madrid along an artwork by Swedish artist Max Anderson
 | | Comic book panels of "more than a love story babe" written by Manuel with art by Ukrainian artist Artur Kukhta featuring himself and Alexandra Zarkhaya set in Moscow - Russia, with art by Argentine artist Mr Ed, set in Barcelona - Spain, with art by Spanish artist Felipe Navarro set in Madrid along an artwork by Swedish artist Max Anderson |
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| Muses Janina Barabas and Olga Brezhneva from Russia |
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| Muses Alexandra Zarkhaya, Olga Brezhneva and Ksenia Martynova from Russia |
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| Muses Olga Brezhneva at Goa - India, mademoiselle ZhuZhu and Tanya Bright from Russia |
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| Muse Olga Brezhneva from Russia at Goa - India |
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Books "Solo Magia" and "more than a love story babe" and texts of them at Camões Institute table in Dehli - India
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| Printed texts for "Solo Magia" |
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| Unpublished pages written by Manuel for New Delhi's book exhibition |
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| Poster for the exhibition |
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| 'solo magia" and "more than a love story babe" books along another poster for the exhibition in the main entrance of Camões institute in New Delhi - India |
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| Posters and printed pages for the exhibition |
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| Monali Roy along visitors of the exhibition in New Delhi - India - 01 |
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| Monali Roy along visitors of the exhibition in New Delhi - India - 02 |
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| Monali Roy along visitors of the exhibition in New Delhi - India - 09 |
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| Monali Roy along visitors of the exhibition in New Delhi - India and Portuguese writer Alexandra Lucas Coelho - 01 |
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Monali Roy along visitors of the exhibition in New Delhi - India and Portuguese writer Alexandra Lucas Coelho - 02
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| Maps of Portuguese Indian Empire - 01 |
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"Solo Magia" book pics
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"More than a love story babe" book pics
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