There is a lot of longing for bygone days in the works of Jorge Eduardo. The themes used, the simple manner of painting something difficult, the discovery of the "frames", everything treated with a lot of respect concerning the woods or the old paints.

With the eyes of a boy, he gives back to us whatever he has seen; the eyes of a boy who played with kites, tops, rag balls and who suddenly finds himself imprisoned at home in an endless rainy afternoon, in a restrained mood for excitement and sun.

He is a "voyeur", in the better sense, because he sees from inside out and his "frames" are not keyholes but a combination of sceneries and old, window frames which allowed the happy childhood to see much more than TV images and playgrounds made of concrete.

In Jorge Eduardo's RETROÇOS, we find the nostalgia of sceneries already gone. It is not possible anymore, under the present ecologic preposterousness, to go out with a portable easel in search of a bucolic theme. However, to encase a theme with all the power of the fusion: wood + canvas, in an old window taken out of a house, makes him .singular. Because the work is not only the painting, but the impact of the theme seen before its ending, like Fábrica da Usina (Usina Factory) which is a ruin seen from behind a shutter which must also be a ruin soon.

There is a message in this exhibition: we rnust urgently contemplate the beauty around us, because future will take this opportunity from us; we must learn how to look tenderly at the green, the sky, in short, everything we choose to enjoy looking at. Before it is over...

Open your windows, your shutters, and look, look.

Caio Mourão