Sebastião Cavaco: Ao Largo Ardente at Basílica da Estrela

In a long-abandoned wing of Lisbon's Basílica da Estrela, artist Sebastião Cavaco presents "Ao Largo Ardente", an exhibition that transforms the historic cloister and its adjacent rooms into a contemplative journey. Through paintings, small sculptures, and an installation, the show explores humanity's relationship with the divine, using fire as a recurring symbol—depicted in flames, embers, and shifting light.

Visitors step away from the city's bustle into a space of silence and introspection, where the organic rigor of drawing, free gestures of painting, and the raw force of sculpture converge. The exhibition reactivates a once-active area of the basilica, bridging its past as a site of spiritual life with contemporary artistic expression. It's an invitation to ponder the mystery of existence through symbolic representations of fire.