Luanda — Painter Mário Tendinha said in Luanda that the Angolan tales portrayed in the paints, dances and pictures that will be on public display from September 19-28 in Luanda highlight the struggle of man for freedom and victory of good over evil.

Angolan Mário Tendinha said so to the press, flanked by choreographer Ana Clara Guerra Marques and photographer José Pinto, while discussing with journalists the ways of coverage of the above mentioned exhibition that will be held in the International Exhibition Hall (Siexpo).

According to the painter, the content of the paintings drawn from the book "Os Ogros na tradição oral angolana", by the lecturer of the Higher Institute of Education Sciences (Isced), Américo Oliveira, come from various communities that form Angola.

They, the painter said, depict aspects related to ghosts and other fancies of the Angolan man, eager to overcome the barriers of evil.

The 108 tales of the book, he added, show that there is only one moral in the histories, which is that of freedom, struggle for harmony among men, which are topics that were transmitted from generation to generation.

Ana Clara Guerra Marques who has been tasked with translating into dance the figures portrayed in the paintings, said this has a been an interesting experience to work over each detail for about eight months, with a group of eight dancers.