MANUEL FIGUEIRA, UNTITLED, 1972, GOUACHE ON CARDBOARD, 21X39CM, COURTESY OF PERVE GALERIA

Perve Galeria presents exhibitions of modern and contemporary art since 2002. Its objective is the dissemination of the art from the Portuguese-speaking countries and especially to promote internationally those artists coming from the African continent. Perve Galeria develops and promotes national and international exhibition projects. In 2013, Perve Galleria launched a museum space in Lisbon called House of Freedom – Mário Cesariny and In February 2015, one of its art collections was showed at India International Centre, in New Delhi, featuring hundreds of artworks of modern and contemporary artists from Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, India, Mozambique and Portugal.

Ernesto Shikhani (b.1934) and Manuel Figueira (b.1938) are both founders of an international artistic speech coming from Africa. The artworks by Shikhani produced in the 70s, 80s and 90s demonstrate his constant search for new ways of expression. Shikhani’s work reflects the importance of search for cultural identity and knowledge as inherent values in a sustained and sustainable development. The works by Figueira were made between 1960 and 1990 and develop a distinctive and unrepeatable narrative, re-reading the future along with the re-creation of a certain type of human transfiguration and throughout the memory of time – magical artworks with a surrealist atmosphere and a symbolic power, appearing as Africa’s diverse voices embedded in an astonishing global discourse.