Sketching Abrantes. Postmodernism

 [Javier de Blas in Abrantes, Portugal] Eduardo Salavisa is organizing
for the first year Cadernos de Viagem de Abrantes (Abrantes Travel
Sketchbooks ). I have been invited, in this edition, to draw the city
for a week.

04/28/2016

Another thing I learn from my “conversations at the restaurant” with Miguel Real is that postmodernism is characterized by having more of concept rather than location, taking profit, many times, of old buildings to adaptate to contemporary circumstances. I draw the municipal library Antonio Botto, which was rebuilded from an old Romanesque convent. I am also attracted by the many Art Deco buildings of the city, designed by leading European architects. The one I draw is not the most interesting, but it is a good example of the dialogue that the postmodernist building next, is generating with it.
Finally I observe the municipal market, which is great for the purity of its lines and volumes and I go to speak to one of the fishmongers, who tells me how he travels every week to the Azores for supplies.