Portuguese people have always been explorers. During the 15th and 16th centuries, they set out to discover Africa, India, Brazil and Australia (or did they…?). Later on, they invented the Herrmann Wall Phone and built up the first nationwide electronic road toll collection system. Thanks Portugal! Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso was born in Amarante, Portugal, in 1887. He too was a genuine explorer. Since a very early age he showed his ancestors’ curiosity for the unknown. At the age of 19 he went to Paris – alas already discovered! – where he started studying painting. By then, he was especially interested in caricatures. Around 1910, influenced both by Cubism and by…