O meu pior e real pesadelo de 16 anos no Brasil em um filme - Lembranças do Fim dos Tempos, premiado em Berlim - Finalmente disponível na internet. Diretor: Rafa Câmara - Link no primeiro comentário My worst and real nightmare from 16 years in Brazil in a film - Memories from the End of Times, awarded in Berlin - Finally available on internet. Director: Rafa Câmara - Link on first commentary #pedrodekastrodarkscapes #pedrodekastro #memoriesfromtheendoftimes #nightmare #damagedeye #surviving #hope #art

O ADEUS, 2018 - Tinta da China sobre Papel - Série de Munique - Meu Adeus ao Brasil após 16 anos e meu Regresso à Europa - Em exibição nas minhas Visões Apocalípticas show no Museum HR Giger, até ao fim de Março de 2019 THE FAREWELL, 2018 - China Ink on Paper - Munich Series - My Farewell to Brazil after 16 years and my Return to Europe -.In exhibition in my Apocalyptic Visions show at Museum HR Giger, until the end of March 2019

THE BUZZSAW - China ink on paper - Detail of THE BISHOP III, one of my 30 Children exhibited at the opening of my Apocalyptic Visions show, Museum HR Giger, Gruyéres - Switzerland - 4 Months after I come back to Europe from 16 years in Brazil. PDK Show held from the end of October 2018 until the end of March 2019.

DEATHCRANE - China ink on paper - Detail of DEMENTIA, one of my 30 Children exhibited at the opening of my Apocalyptic Visions show, Museum HR Giger, Gruyéres - Switzerland - 4 Months after I come back to Europe from 16 years in Brasil. PDK Show held from the end of October 2018 until the end of March 2019.

TIMESLAVE - SPIDERHARLEQUIN - China ink on paper - Detail of THE MADMEN, one of my 30 Children exhibited at the opening of my Apocalyptic Visions show, Museum HR Giger, Gruyéres - Switzerland - 4 Months after I come back to Europe from 16 years in Brasil. PDK Show held from the end of October 2018 until the end of March 2019.

THE CRANE- China ink on paper - Detail of DEMENTIA, one of my 30 Children exhibited at the opening of my Apocalyptic Visions show, Museum HR Giger, Gruyéres - Switzerland - 4 Months after I come back to Europe from 16 years in Brasill. PDK Show held from the end of October 2018 until the end of March 2019.

MEMORIES FROM THE END OF TIMES A stripped-back, monochromatic short – like the subject’s paintings, devoid of colour but rich in fine detail. Rafa Câmara provides us with a sparse, evocative account of a genuinely existential crisis: an artist facing the loss of his precious sight because of a cataract, the result of a blow to the right eye with a hooked stick, and with his sight, the ability to escape through creative expression from the trappings of this reality and from his own personal ‘Hell’. The short was filmed in the Brazilian city of São Paulo, the largest city in the Southern Hemisphere, where the Portuguese artist Pedro De Kastro lived at the time. It has a population in excess of eleven million, greater than that of Switzerland, and possesses a monumental skyline akin to that of the other world-cities such as New York and Hong Kong. It is an obvious truism that a short only has a limited time in which to tell its story, but ‘’Memories’’ is in many ways tied up with limitations of time. The artist grapples with the prospect of only having a brief interval of vision left before he loses his artistic gift. In general there is a sense of impending loss. De Kastro’s dangerous climbs – a source of thoughts, inspirations and of a feeling of freedom -- are set to an elegiac violin and he contemplates losing his artistic gift in a scene bookended by scattered, abandoned pens, the ticking of a cheap alarm clock and a helicopter and bird shown dark against pale skies, archetypal forms emblematic of the very freedom he fears losing. The ticking of the quartz clock leads to the observation that technology is certainly present (the short is framed by the starting and stopping of a radio cassette) but it is consistently and possibly consciously analogue, even bordering on anachronistic, just as the concrete towers that dominate the skyline of his dream-city essentially represent a past future envisaged in the first half of the twentieth century rather than the sleekly digital ecofuture as imagined by twenty-first century designers. De Kastro’s work-space is as sparse and austere as his skyscrapers, lit by a harsh fluorescent bulb and devoid of visual relief. His works slowly take their shape on an expanse of white paper, the actual lines almost impossibly fine. It is not a forgiving environment for a man whose sight is failing. As such, the cataract-operation acquires tremendous importance in a graphic recording of the actual surgery. The insertion of a needle, the slicing across of the cornea with a scalpel and the pulling apart of the cornea to allow access to the lens with a pair of metal hooks are accompanied by rising thrills of music or by undulating highs and lows, surreal half-glimpses of hands or surgical scrubs and the pale sleeping face of the artist. After such a traumatic operation comes the contrast of Pedro lying peacefully and reopening his eyes as he emerges from under the anaesthetic. It is an artistic rebirth, marked like any other birth with pain in the form of a new tattoo: a heavy cross devised in mediaeval Portugal and taken from the flag of São Paulo itself. This ‘cross of gratitude’ is explained by De Kastro in the terms of Roman Catholic theology, an fulfilment of a promise made to his God and a religious expression of thanks, but it is also full of meaning to the secular reader, perhaps forming a new and permanent connection to the city that is so much of his work. The ticking clock briefly recurs, then fades as he walks along a light-suffused corridor back to the meticulous work that is his artistic life. For the present, the dreamer at the end of time can return to our own with clear sight and record for us what he has seen: a cathartic process for the artist and a fascinating one for the viewer - Written by Patrick Gray

Changing cool visions with Carmen Giger amongst some of my 30 Children exhibited at the opening of my Apocalyptic Visions show, Museum HR Giger, Gruyéres - Switzerland - 4 Months after I come back to Europe from 16 years in Brasil. PDK Show held from the end of October 2018 until the end of March 2019 - Photo by Pedro Martim Ribeiro

Welcome to my Apocalyptic Visions show, at the Museum HR Giger, Gruyéres - Switzerland - 4 Months after I come back to Europe from 16 years in Brasil. PDK Show held from the end of October 2018 until the end of March 2019 - Photo from Kelly Brill

Day after the opening of my Apocalyptic Visions show, at the Spell Room, Museum HR Giger, Gruyéres - Switzerland, October 28th, 2018 - 4 Months after I come back to Europe from 16 years in Brasil. PDK Show from the end of October 2018 until the end of March 2019 - Photo from Andy Davies

THE AVENUE - PETROL BLUE VISION - The original black/white vision is one of my 30 Children exhibited at the Museum HR Giger - Gruyéres, Switzerland - PDK Show held from the end of October 2018 until the end of March 2019 WORLD LEADERS AND GREEDY GLOBAL MEGA CORPORATIONS MUST TAKE CARE ABOUT OUR PLANET EARTH - OUR HOME - LIKE ALL OF US, AND NOT THINK JUST ABOUT MONEY, PROFIT, POWER AND THEMSELVES #pedrodekastro #giger #museumgiger #darkscape #chinainkdrawing #brazil #survivor #freedom #nostalgy #globalwarming #war #industry #oil #oilwars #greed #fuel #rotring #avenidapaulista #saopaulo #lonecar #trump #nuclearwar

My HARP of 1996. I must create another one - One of my 30 Children exhibited at the opening of my Apocalyptic Visions show, Museum HR Giger, Gruyéres, Switzerland - 4 Months after I come back to Europe from 16 years in Brasil. PDK Show held from the end of October 2018 until the end of March 2019 - Photo by Matthias Belz

Snowball fighting with my stepson, Giger Kid, outside the Museum HR Giger before the Opening of my and Paul Rumsey's show Apocalyptic Visions at Museum HR Giger, Gruyéres, Switzerland, October 27th, 2018 - 4 Months after I come back to Europe from 16 years in Brazil - Photo by Paula Matias

Snowball fighting with my stepson, Giger Kid, outside the Museum HR Giger before the Opening of my and Paul Rumsey's show Apocalyptic Visions at Museum HR Giger, Gruyéres, Switzerland, October 27th, 2018 - 4 Months after I come back to Europe from 16 years in Brazil - Photo by Paula Matias

Snowball fighting with my stepson, Giger Kid, outside the Museum HR Giger before the Opening of my and Paul Rumsey's show Apocalyptic Visions at Museum HR Giger, Gruyéres, Switzerland, October 27th, 2018 - 4 Months after I come back to Europe from 16 years in Brazil - Photo by Paula Matias

At one of my Inferno's walls, 10 of my 30 Children exhibited at the opening of my Apocalyptic Visions show, Museum HR Giger, Gruyéres - Switzerland - 4 Months after I come back to Europe from 16 years in Brasil. PDK Show held from the end of October 2018 until the end of March 2019 - Photo by Matthias Belz

Day after the opening of my Apocalyptic Visions show, at the Spell Room, Museum HR Giger, Gruyéres - Switzerland, October 28th, 2018 - 4 Months after I come back to Europe from 16 years in Brazil - Photo from Andy Davies

7 of my 30 Children exhibited at the opening of my Apocalyptic Visions show, Museum HR Giger, Gruyéres - Switzerland, October 27th 2018 - 4 Months after I come back to Europe from 16 years in Brazil - Photo by Matthias Belz

Escalando clandestino numa madrugada de Verão, a Ponte sobre o Tejo até ao topo - Lisboa 1990 - Climbing clandestine in a Summer dawn, the Bridge over the Tagus to the Top - Lisbon 1990

THE MADMEN - One of my 30 Darkscapes to be exhibited at the Museum HR Giger - Opening October 27th -Ending March 19th 2019, , in Gruyéres, Switzerland Tinta da China sobre Papel / China ink on Paper, 1997 - 70 x 100 cm - Lisbon Series #themadmen #art #farfuture #postapocalipse #nuclearwar #globalwarming #lisbon #pedrodekastro #endoftime #chinainkonpaper #trump #putin #greed #war #power #giger

ALPHA AND OMEGA - One of my 25 Darkscapes to be exhibited at the MUSEUM HR GIGER - Opening at next October 27th, in Gruyéres, Helvetia - 2018 ALPHA AND OMEGA - China ink on paper, 1995 - 100 x 70 cm - The Apocalypse Series #pedrodekastro #darkscape #chinainkdrawing #art #darkart #artist #gallery #imagination #escape #dark #drawing #portugal #survivor #freedom #nostalgy #globalwarming #lisbon #war #industry #greed #fuel #rotring #rotringpen #fabercastell #eternityofgod #trump #putin #power #giger

Signing autographs at the opening of my Apocalyptic Visions show, with my Paula Matias, my stepson Giger Kid, Museum HR Giger, Gruyéres - Switzerland 2018 - 4 Months after I come back to Europe from 16 years in Brazil - Photo by Matthias Belz Autografando na abertura do meu show Visões Apocalípticas, com a minha Paula Matias, meu enteado Giger Kid, Museum HR Giger, Gruyéres - Suíça 2018 - 4 Meses meses depois de eu ter voltado para a Europa de 16 anos no Brasil

Day after the opening of my show Apocalyptic Visions, looking beyond the Horizon at Museum HR Giger' s entry - Photo from Kelly Brill

Day after the opening of my Apocalyptic Visions show, at the Harkonnen Chair, Museum HR Giger, Gruyéres - Switzerland 2018 - 4 Months after I come back to Europe from 16 years in Brazil - Photo from Andy Davies

Talking with my stepson Giger Kid after signing autographs session at the opening of my Apocalyptic Visions show, with my Paula Matias, Museum HR Giger, Gruyéres, October 27th, Switzerland 2018 - 4 Months after I come back to Europe from 16 years in Brazil - Photo from Matthias Belz - Conversando com o meu enteado Giger Kid, após a sessão de autógrafos na abertura do meu show Visões Apocalípticas, com a minha Paula Matias, Museum HR Giger, Gruyéres - 27 de Outubro, Suíça 2018 - 4 Meses meses após de eu ter voltado para a Europa de 16 anos no Brasil

Signing prints somewhere in the labyrinth inside the Museum HR Giger, the day after my Opening of my show Apocalyptic Visions at Museum HR Giger, Gruyéres, Switzerland, October 28th, 2018 - 4 Months after I come back to Europe after 16 years in Brazil - Photo from Paula Matias

Day after the opening of my Apocalyptic Visions show at the Harkonnen Chair, Museum HR Giger, Gruyéres 2018

Me, Carmen Giger, Paul Rumsey and Leslie Barany, at the opening of my and Paul's show Apocalyptic Visions at Museum HR Giger, Gruyéres 2018 - Photo from Matthias Belz

PDK'S DARK DAWNS IN MUSEUM HR GIGER - 2018 - 2019

 17 of my 29 Dark Dawns to be exhibited in my show at the Museum HR Giger, opening next October 27th, are being framed right now at Gruyéres. This show of mine together with Paul Rumsey will be so Awesome

#art #farfuture #postapocalipse #nuclearwar #globalwarming #lisbon#pedrodekastro #endoftime #chinainkonpaper #trump #putin #greed #war#power #giger

Os catálogos da minha exposição no Museum HR Giger estão prontos e são fantásticos! Isto somente 4 meses após eu ter voltado de vez dos meus 16 anos de Brasil The catalogs of my exhibition are ready and they are fantastic! This only 4 months after I came back for good from my 16 years of Brazil And just in case you haven't been paying attention, I better add that this is the catalog for the upcoming exhibition at the HR Giger Museum Gallery opening on October 27th, for artists Pedro De Kastro and Paul Rumsey. • https://www.facebook.com/events/2141753582739792/ • https://www.facebook.com/Pedro-De-Kastros-Darkscapes-from-…/ • https://www.facebook.com/pedro.dekastro • https://www.facebook.com/ArtistPaulRumsey/

BACK TO EUROPE

De volta aos meus Apocalipses com O Adeus, tinta da china sobre papel-Munique Revisitada/Projeto Germania.
Meu Adeus ao Brasil, após 16 anos insanos e meu Regresso à Europa.

Back to my Apocalypses with The Farewell , china ink on paper-Munich Revisited/Germania Project.
My Farewell to Brazil after 16 insane years and my Return to Europe.

                      THE FAREWELL - China Ink on Paper, 2018 - 25 x 40 cm - Munich Series