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CREATURES AND BEINGS OF THE PORTUGUESE IMAGINARY
A VISUAL INTERPRETATION OF POPULAR ORALITY
by Pedro Salvador Mendes
Prefaces by Sofia Batalha, Manuel Calado
Essay by Paulo Borges
Through the illustrations of Pedro Salvador Mendes, the result of extensive research, it is possible to access the Portuguese imaginary and reconnect worlds—the ones we shared before the separation of races, the visible with the invisible, the unconscious with the conscious, the ancestral with the present.
These various worlds of orality, reconnected visually in this book, seek to contribute to the perpetuation of the collective memory of places in Portugal, revitalizing that broad, mystical, symbolic, and ancestral root that gave voice to fears, dreams, experiences, and beliefs, often expressed or told through fables, legends, and tales that still inhabit our imagination.
An in-depth and ancestral understanding of places, through the lens of today, allows us to recognize the importance of their history, rediscover the people and traditions metamorphosed over time. This rich visual content invites us to dive deep into the roots of these places, to find correspondences, connections, and new meanings, discovering new narratives that reveal the potential of these places.
Pedro Salvador Mendes Born in Lisbon in 1973.
He is an illustrator with a Master’s Degree in Scientific and Naturalistic Illustration, IADE 2013. He studied illustration and drawing at ARCO and studied painting at the Fine Arts Society. In 2000 he attended the animation cinema course at CITEN.
In 2002 she completed a postgraduate course in illustration at IADE. In 2003 she completed the scientific illustration course at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, where she was taught by Professor Pedro Salgado. She is a member of the Grupo do Risco (GdR), a group that works in the field of field sketching and natural history. He has organised important expeditions with Grupo do Risco: Douro Internacional 2008, Ria Formosa 2009, Amazonia 2010, Caramulo, Donana and Madeira (Laurissilva Forest) 2012 and Morocco 2015. As a children’s illustrator, he did the illustrations for the book ‘Há Fogo na Floresta’ by Ana Maria Magalhães and Isabel Alçada and is the author of ‘Sabu o Tigre Pintor’.
He also illustrated the book ‘Édipo uma História Completa’, by Carlos Céu e Silva and the CTT – Correios de Portugal publication ‘Animais do Jardim Zoológico’, whose drawings of zoo animals served as the basis for his Master’s thesis. Illustrator of personalised labels for the Virgo brand, Torre do Frade wine. He teaches watercolour and fieldsketching classes and workshops. Liven illustrator since 2015.
