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Science image by Pedro Medeiros to view for free at Coimbra Exploratory - Coimbra News

Science image by Pedro Medeiros to view for free at Coimbra Exploratory – Coimbra News

The Pencil of Nature is the exhibition of photography by Pedro Medeiros that Exploratório – Centro Ciência Viva de Coimbra is on display in the Science Picture Gallery. With free admission, the exhibition will be open to the public until the end of November 2022.

The Exploratório presents at the Science Photo Gallery The Pencil of Nature, 18 large-format photographs by Coimbra-based photographer Pedro Medeiros.

The Nature Pencil is, according to the author, “a photographic representation of nature’s original forms,” and invites those who see it “to reflect upon sexuality, life, and death, mutation and manipulation, and realize what is ephemeral and what is perennial.”


In this new exhibition of the Science Picture Gallery at Exploratório – Centro Ciência Viva de Coimbra, nature is depicted that presents itself to the artist on his outings and walks. Nature interpreted and assigned her the artist’s gaze, which she thus shares with other gazes. Because, as Pedro Medeiros says, “nature is all (in constant motion)”, so “we know how to be a part of writing it.”

“Nature is the greatest of books, the world of all possibilities, complete freedom. It is an enduring source of knowledge and inspiration for scientists, photographers, artists and historians. It has no dogma or humility, no tradition or limits,” says Pedro Medeiros. Exactly what the artist shows in this exhibition.

But this exhibition, says the photographer, “is also a tribute to the scientist, pioneer of photography, William Henry Fox Talbot.” [1800-1877] and for his work The Pencil of Nature”, published between 1844 and 1846.

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Admission is free and the exhibition is open to the public during Explorer’s business hours from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM and from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM.