MiratecArts Galeria Costa is located on the island of Pico, in the Azores, among vineyards, forests, and lava fields. The headquarters of the MiratecArts association is an ephemeral museum, a space that encourages art, which can be visited at any time as it is open to the sky.

A new permanent installation has found a home in a corner of the property called “Canadian Backalley.” The sawn basalt stones are canvases for proposals that connect the spirit of Canadian territories with Portuguese soil. And so it was that artistic director Terry Costa found artist Marta Rézio, and thinking of the Inuit people in the ice of Nunavut, embraced the collection “The Guardians of Ceramics.”

“It is an honor and a joy to be able to inhabit, through my work with the ceramic guardians, the MiratecArts Galeria Costa, where art and nature are one,” says Marta Rézio. “Miratecarts is undoubtedly a welcoming home of infinite creativity, where art and nature are celebrated. May the creative volcano never be extinguished.”

Marta Rézio is a Portuguese artist who studied Painting and Communication Design at the National School of Fine Arts. About her art, and the collection “The Guardians of Ceramics,” the artist explains that “they are born when the sky touches the earth. The earth is the clay that moves in my hands, while the sky is the connection with the Universe, which happens during co-creation. These moments of pure receptivity and presence are transformed into these representations, these presences, which remind us that we are never alone and that we are always protected and guided.”

MiratecArts accepts proposals from artists for new works to reside on the property. http://www.miratecarts.com

From Press Release