Mário Cesariny

Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos was born on 9 August 1923 and died on 26 November 2006 in Lisbon. A poet, painter and translator, Cesariny was considered one of the Masters of Portuguese Plastic and Literary Surrealism. He made it possible for a large part of his library and artistic collection to be sold, donated or bequeathed to FCM to be incorporated into the Foundation’s collection. As a result of a close relationship, the institution became the owner of the contents of the artist’s house and pays homage to him with a permanent exhibition space. Cesariny was co-founder of Grupo Surrealista de Lisboa [Surrealist Group of Lisbon] (1947) and Os Surrealistas [The Surrealists] (1948) and stood out in Surrealism for the revolutionary way of seeing, understanding and living life, and for his pioneering spirit in the introduction of new techniques, exploration of materials and impregnation of humor, irony, criticism, irreverence and drama.