Sementes D'Alma (Seeds of the Soul), solo exhibition by the artist Idasse, opens on 10 September at 18.00, at Kulungwana Association's Sala de Espera gallery, Platform 5, Central Train Station (CFM), Maputo.

This show, curated by Ciro Pereira, comprises a total of 17 works, including drawings, paintings and sculpture, in a variety of materials and media.

While focussing on graphite on paper drawings, this collection also includes some works using other techniques, that give us a view of the varied and already broad range of the work of the artist.

In addition to containing reproductions of the works in this exhibition, the catalogue also provides biographical details about the artist, texts by António Cabrita, Calane da Silva and Marcelo Panguana, some extracts from which follow below:

In the case of Ídasse, the artist seems, in his characteristic and tremendous power of expression, to want to illuminate the shapes of a bestiary of beings that is impossible to catalogue and which are certainly supernatural, as though creating a spiritual flock based on totems and gods.

António Cabrita

(…) by also pursuing sculpture, shaping wood, iron or clay, sometimes all these elements in a single work. But this is also a small, indicative showcase of the larger life exhibition that is under preparation for 2016.

Calane da Silva

Ídasse re-emerges now from silence, from the haughty distance he maintained far from the limelight. He re-appears undoubtedly mature, but surprisingly magical, innovative and seductive, a visionary of our times.

Marcelo Panguana

The exhibition will be open until 10 October of the present year.