In a note released by the press services, the minister is "deeply dismayed by the death of Maria Amália Ferreira Gusmão, Maly Gusmão", a victim of a disease that "leaves an estate with a considerable number of paintings".
The painter was born on April 23, 1938, in Bom Jesus, Icolo e Bengo, having lost her mother at the time of her birth, an episode that later gave rise to a work in which Maly Gusmão portrays the death of his mother.
A self-taught plastic artist, she was also a theater actress, model and stylist, using artisanal or recyclable means to make Carnival dresses and other garments.
She left Angola at just over 20 years old, part of the theater group Vison Voador and dreamed of one day returning to the country, but the climate of war in Angola led her to successively postpone that intention.
She participated in several solo and group exhibitions including in Portugal in 2011, when the Casino Estoril Art Gallery hosted works by various Angolan artists, and in Washington in 2002.
