Luz e Emoções na Pintura
Instituto de Altos Estudos
Academia das Ciências de Lisboa
22 de Abril 2026
Filipe Rocha da Silva builds worlds from accumulation. Across six decades and multiple media — oil on canvas, pencil on paper, printmaking, vídeo and textile — his work consistently returns to a single governing principle: the dense, patient layering of small marks, figures, or units of colour that, taken together, produce something larger than their sum. Subject matter is always subordinated to this relentless accumulation, which gives his work a rare unity. To look closely is to see the unit; to step back is to see the world it builds.
Poem by Mirza Ghalib (1797-1869)
Photo Val d’Orcia by FRS
2019
Mirza Ghakib textile ‘s drawing in progress
Mirza Ghalib, Wool and Lace on Canvas, 100X170cm, 2021
Val d’Orcia, Oil on Canvas, 73X100cm, 2021
Seen from Twin Tours, Downtown Manhattan, 1983
Drawing.
Pencil and ink on paper, typewriting.