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Make it Burn then Hold with artist Francisco Figueiredo Lopes

The Unyielding Grip: Francisco Figueiredo Lopes' Make it Burn then Hold

Luc Levez|

Against the backdrop of Lisbon’s brilliant blue skies and the distant shimmer of the Atlantic, Francisco Figueiredo Lopes’ Make it burn then hold seems almost alive—straining, grasping, resisting. It is a sculpture that speaks in extremes: of creation and destruction, of accumulation and exhaustion, of the raw forces—both human and material—that shape our world. Here, steel becomes a language, tension a narrative, and a monumental form transforms into a meditation on existence itself.

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
— Edgar Degas