'From the paintings bearing oil to the black and white designs, Idasse grows in the emotion of senses, now throughout the graphite of dream. It is a worthwhile incursion along the paths these hands and gestures which go through the spaces of magic creation. Here the shades, there the lights and over there the half-lights. The lines, the planes, traces embroidering the image at tumbuluca* (Kutumbuluca - self-producing, happen, create). Gesture of soul in the hands of spirit. There, the myth, the taboo, the interdicted line, the manbird and the phython-man of our all xicuembos. There the winged mammiferous, the rutting, the seduction, the matinal song which is illuminating from the old and recent astonishments to the whole canvas. Over there the graphic dancing, dancers floating into the anthropology of rhytm. Idasse flies like in a cave widespread painting heaven, his designs do not touch this earth of misery and fears, they seem flying or they tend to an attempt of a frightened resting-spot. What for hesitations? What for xituculucumba does he want to find-out in this heaven of graphite? It is the bantu-ronga heart and Afro-Mozambican of Idasse which confirm: "I want to approach, I want to descover my mythical and mystical interior, I want to meet in this triology of gesture-hands, materials and imagination", a graphical theology which would give the form, the plastic of dream, the ancient stories, to the taboos which afterwards we realised they are not. Thus, the artist expresses, revealing himself.   Calane da Silva

Hands and gestures

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