14, Apr, 2012 to 8, Jul, 2012
Porto, Portugal
Homepage: http://www.serralves.pt

Richard Valentine (Loulé, 1978) is a Portuguese artist living and working in New York for eight years. This exhibition will be the first opportunity for the Portuguese public to confront all the graphics - posters, leaflets, room - produced by the artist in recent years, and that Valentine considers key part of several plays, including film screenings and installations, however presented in international exhibitions (from Voices 7, 2007-08, the International Meeting in Medellin, Colombia, in 2010). The Growth and Culture exhibition also presents two novel projects, designed for the halls of the Museum of Serralves and your audience: an installation entitled Contents of the Lecture "Models of Democracy", in which the artist uses obsolete overhead to confront us with a "classroom" very particular, and the film in two parts Inkblot Perception and Personality, which part of the story of a psychological test established in the early 1960s in the U.S. and whose effectiveness have been questioned, it soon was completely out of proportion efforts, time and money that originated: the Holtzman Inkblot Technique, patented by Wayne H. Holtzman in 1961, after seven years of expensive research, was released when the scientific community has not cared for personality tests.
Richard Valentine, who has always explored the rationale and protocols of transmission of knowledge (lectures, workshops, conferences, educational films), rethinks on Growth and Culture - notice that besides the title of this exhibition is the name of a play presented in the Auditorium Serralves and replicates the protocols of the conference - connection, much discussed in recent times, among contemporary art museums dedicated to the presentation and topics such as research and education.
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