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art
Returning Home - Serralves Foundation's Collection
16, Jul, 2010 >> 26, Sep, 2010
Fundação Serralves“Returning Home” exhibits a set of works from the Serralves Foundation's Collection, specifically selected by the manner in which they question the domestic space, on the basis of mythologies of day-to-day life that describe or subvert this space.
The works on display in the Serralves Villa include paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos and installations, chosen for the dialogue or confrontation that they provide.
This “return to the Serralves Villa” addresses a wide array of themes - ranging from the house as a place of shelter to architecture as the intersection between public and private discourses, the relationship between the interior and exterior, and the individual projection of each work in the correlation of the multiple stories associated with a joint presentation. The selected works thereby gain new possibilities of discovery and interpretation in the context of the relations that they establish with the exhibition space.
Curators: Marta Almeida and João Fernandes Production: Fundação de Serralves
Curators: Marta Almeida and João Fernandes Production: Fundação de Serralves
HomePage: http://www.serralves.com
art
Marlene Dumas - Contra o Muro
3, Jul, 2010 >> 10, Oct, 2010
Fundação SerralvesMarlene Dumas (1953, Cape Town) belongs to the generation of painters who emerged in the 1980s under labels such as ‘Wild Painting’. Her insistence on modes of figurative representation may be considered a reflection of that generational proximity. On the other hand, Dumas never integrated into any artists’ group – this may partly be attributed to her arriving in Holland only after having started to study art in Cape Town (until 1975) – more importantly, however, she never joined in the contemporary painters’ rejection of conceptualism. On the contrary, all through her career her painting and drawing has had a strong focus on conceptual issues such as the position of the author, interpretation, the art world, art history, family, gender, sexuality/erotics, and death, which she has also reflected in powerful and independent writing, sometimes integrated into the painted works, sometimes independent of them.
Marlene Dumas is counted among the foremost painters of our time and her work has been exhibited all over the world, most recently in a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Lately she has started to make work in which she experiments with new and surprising ways to make paintings. The show at Serralves is planned as an exhibition of recent work which will allow the public to track Dumas’ questioning and developing of her own achievements – in a way it is considered to mark a new beginning after becoming one of the most outstanding success stories in recent art.
Curator: Ulrich Loock Production: Fundação de Serralves
Marlene Dumas is counted among the foremost painters of our time and her work has been exhibited all over the world, most recently in a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Lately she has started to make work in which she experiments with new and surprising ways to make paintings. The show at Serralves is planned as an exhibition of recent work which will allow the public to track Dumas’ questioning and developing of her own achievements – in a way it is considered to mark a new beginning after becoming one of the most outstanding success stories in recent art.
Curator: Ulrich Loock Production: Fundação de Serralves
HomePage: http://www.serralves.com
art
Grazia Toderi
24, Jul, 2010 >> 31, Oct, 2010
Fundação SerralvesFrom July 23 to October 31, Serralves Museum presents an exhibition of recent works of Grazia Toderi - a contemporary artist who has adopted one of the most singular approaches to video and photography. Cityscapes are common in her work, questioning our understanding of reality and the manner in which it is represented. This exhibition presents a broad range of the artist’s most recent works, produced since 2006, including video projections, photographs and drawings. All of Toderi’s video installations since “Rosso Babel” – in which she explores the allegory of the Tower of Babel via a fantastic and phantasmagoric virtual city – will be on display for the first time. The exhibition will also premiere the work, “Atlante” (2010) - a dual video projection in which the artist pursues her enquiries into the relationship between heaven and earth, between celestial and terrestrial mapping, once again confronting us with gravity losses and the horizon line. This work uses images taken in Portugal - specifically recorded for this exhibition.
Grazia Toderi’s cities are based upon nocturnal aerial photographs of selected cities that the artist has digitally transformed, inscribing light maps therein that pulse intermittently. In Toderi’s cities, the images convey a notion of joy through a specific perception of time. This sense of time no longer corresponds to our standard notion of time, although we nonetheless encounter multiple references within these images that lead us to a game of recognition, surprise, enchantment and discovery. The artist’s work transports us to a territory where strangeness transgresses the very condition of representation. This transgression of representation enables us to rediscover recognition as an alternative form of revisiting realities that we thought we knew, but which now appear in a transfigured form. We perceive identifiable elements, but don’t see them as we expect them to appear. These starry firmaments, animated by frozen movement, combine both innocence and terror, the enchanting and terrifying dimensions of an astronaut’s solitude, conjuring up an entire imaginary universe in which the spectator is confronted with the frontality of a view of the world that invariably constitutes a different perspective of a new world.
Curator: João Fernandes Production: Serralves Foundation
Grazia Toderi’s cities are based upon nocturnal aerial photographs of selected cities that the artist has digitally transformed, inscribing light maps therein that pulse intermittently. In Toderi’s cities, the images convey a notion of joy through a specific perception of time. This sense of time no longer corresponds to our standard notion of time, although we nonetheless encounter multiple references within these images that lead us to a game of recognition, surprise, enchantment and discovery. The artist’s work transports us to a territory where strangeness transgresses the very condition of representation. This transgression of representation enables us to rediscover recognition as an alternative form of revisiting realities that we thought we knew, but which now appear in a transfigured form. We perceive identifiable elements, but don’t see them as we expect them to appear. These starry firmaments, animated by frozen movement, combine both innocence and terror, the enchanting and terrifying dimensions of an astronaut’s solitude, conjuring up an entire imaginary universe in which the spectator is confronted with the frontality of a view of the world that invariably constitutes a different perspective of a new world.
Curator: João Fernandes Production: Serralves Foundation
HomePage: http://www.serralves.com
still in Sep. 2010
pop
Supertramp 70-10 Tour
14, Sep, 2010
Pavilhão Rosa MotaThe Supertramp announced the tour "70-10" in celebration of 40 years editing the first album "Supertramp" in 1970. The tour begins on September 2 in Halle, Germany, and includes 35 concerts in various countries: Portugal (September 12, in Lisbon, September 14, Porto), France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Holland, England and Ireland.
Besides the creator, vocalist and keyboardist Rick Davies, the formation has the legendary members of Supertramp, John Anthony Helliwell, sax and woodwinds, and Bob Siebenberg, battery. The training is complemented with other musicians who have already been on tour with the band: Jesse Siebenberg, vocals, guitar and percussion, Cliff Hugo, bass, Carl Verheyen, guitars, and Lee Thornburg, blows.
Rick Davies and light technician, Michael Brian Duncan, are developing a new production that will allow the audience a complete experience than are Supertramp, an audible and visual delight.
Tests are underway in New York and during the performance of more than two hours, Supertramp will play an incredible number of classics, among which include "Bloody Well Right," "Dreamer," "From Now On," " Goodbye Stranger, "" The Logical Song, "" Rudy "and many, many others.
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When: 9:00 PM
Where: Pavilhão Rosa Mota
Entry: 32 to 34 EUR
Where: Pavilhão Rosa Mota
Entry: 32 to 34 EUR
HomePage: http://www.ticketline.pt/
art
Returning Home - Serralves Foundation's Collection
16, Jul, 2010 >> 26, Sep, 2010
Fundação Serralves“Returning Home” exhibits a set of works from the Serralves Foundation's Collection, specifically selected by the manner in which they question the domestic space, on the basis of mythologies of day-to-day life that describe or subvert this space.
The works on display in the Serralves Villa include paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos and installations, chosen for the dialogue or confrontation that they provide.
This “return to the Serralves Villa” addresses a wide array of themes - ranging from the house as a place of shelter to architecture as the intersection between public and private discourses, the relationship between the interior and exterior, and the individual projection of each work in the correlation of the multiple stories associated with a joint presentation. The selected works thereby gain new possibilities of discovery and interpretation in the context of the relations that they establish with the exhibition space.
Curators: Marta Almeida and João Fernandes Production: Fundação de Serralves
Curators: Marta Almeida and João Fernandes Production: Fundação de Serralves
HomePage: http://www.serralves.com
art
Marlene Dumas - Contra o Muro
3, Jul, 2010 >> 10, Oct, 2010
Fundação SerralvesMarlene Dumas (1953, Cape Town) belongs to the generation of painters who emerged in the 1980s under labels such as ‘Wild Painting’. Her insistence on modes of figurative representation may be considered a reflection of that generational proximity. On the other hand, Dumas never integrated into any artists’ group – this may partly be attributed to her arriving in Holland only after having started to study art in Cape Town (until 1975) – more importantly, however, she never joined in the contemporary painters’ rejection of conceptualism. On the contrary, all through her career her painting and drawing has had a strong focus on conceptual issues such as the position of the author, interpretation, the art world, art history, family, gender, sexuality/erotics, and death, which she has also reflected in powerful and independent writing, sometimes integrated into the painted works, sometimes independent of them.
Marlene Dumas is counted among the foremost painters of our time and her work has been exhibited all over the world, most recently in a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Lately she has started to make work in which she experiments with new and surprising ways to make paintings. The show at Serralves is planned as an exhibition of recent work which will allow the public to track Dumas’ questioning and developing of her own achievements – in a way it is considered to mark a new beginning after becoming one of the most outstanding success stories in recent art.
Curator: Ulrich Loock Production: Fundação de Serralves
Marlene Dumas is counted among the foremost painters of our time and her work has been exhibited all over the world, most recently in a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Lately she has started to make work in which she experiments with new and surprising ways to make paintings. The show at Serralves is planned as an exhibition of recent work which will allow the public to track Dumas’ questioning and developing of her own achievements – in a way it is considered to mark a new beginning after becoming one of the most outstanding success stories in recent art.
Curator: Ulrich Loock Production: Fundação de Serralves
HomePage: http://www.serralves.com
art
Grazia Toderi
24, Jul, 2010 >> 31, Oct, 2010
Fundação SerralvesFrom July 23 to October 31, Serralves Museum presents an exhibition of recent works of Grazia Toderi - a contemporary artist who has adopted one of the most singular approaches to video and photography. Cityscapes are common in her work, questioning our understanding of reality and the manner in which it is represented. This exhibition presents a broad range of the artist’s most recent works, produced since 2006, including video projections, photographs and drawings. All of Toderi’s video installations since “Rosso Babel” – in which she explores the allegory of the Tower of Babel via a fantastic and phantasmagoric virtual city – will be on display for the first time. The exhibition will also premiere the work, “Atlante” (2010) - a dual video projection in which the artist pursues her enquiries into the relationship between heaven and earth, between celestial and terrestrial mapping, once again confronting us with gravity losses and the horizon line. This work uses images taken in Portugal - specifically recorded for this exhibition.
Grazia Toderi’s cities are based upon nocturnal aerial photographs of selected cities that the artist has digitally transformed, inscribing light maps therein that pulse intermittently. In Toderi’s cities, the images convey a notion of joy through a specific perception of time. This sense of time no longer corresponds to our standard notion of time, although we nonetheless encounter multiple references within these images that lead us to a game of recognition, surprise, enchantment and discovery. The artist’s work transports us to a territory where strangeness transgresses the very condition of representation. This transgression of representation enables us to rediscover recognition as an alternative form of revisiting realities that we thought we knew, but which now appear in a transfigured form. We perceive identifiable elements, but don’t see them as we expect them to appear. These starry firmaments, animated by frozen movement, combine both innocence and terror, the enchanting and terrifying dimensions of an astronaut’s solitude, conjuring up an entire imaginary universe in which the spectator is confronted with the frontality of a view of the world that invariably constitutes a different perspective of a new world.
Curator: João Fernandes Production: Serralves Foundation
Grazia Toderi’s cities are based upon nocturnal aerial photographs of selected cities that the artist has digitally transformed, inscribing light maps therein that pulse intermittently. In Toderi’s cities, the images convey a notion of joy through a specific perception of time. This sense of time no longer corresponds to our standard notion of time, although we nonetheless encounter multiple references within these images that lead us to a game of recognition, surprise, enchantment and discovery. The artist’s work transports us to a territory where strangeness transgresses the very condition of representation. This transgression of representation enables us to rediscover recognition as an alternative form of revisiting realities that we thought we knew, but which now appear in a transfigured form. We perceive identifiable elements, but don’t see them as we expect them to appear. These starry firmaments, animated by frozen movement, combine both innocence and terror, the enchanting and terrifying dimensions of an astronaut’s solitude, conjuring up an entire imaginary universe in which the spectator is confronted with the frontality of a view of the world that invariably constitutes a different perspective of a new world.
Curator: João Fernandes Production: Serralves Foundation
HomePage: http://www.serralves.com
Oct. 2010
art
Marlene Dumas - Contra o Muro
3, Jul, 2010 >> 10, Oct, 2010
Fundação SerralvesMarlene Dumas (1953, Cape Town) belongs to the generation of painters who emerged in the 1980s under labels such as ‘Wild Painting’. Her insistence on modes of figurative representation may be considered a reflection of that generational proximity. On the other hand, Dumas never integrated into any artists’ group – this may partly be attributed to her arriving in Holland only after having started to study art in Cape Town (until 1975) – more importantly, however, she never joined in the contemporary painters’ rejection of conceptualism. On the contrary, all through her career her painting and drawing has had a strong focus on conceptual issues such as the position of the author, interpretation, the art world, art history, family, gender, sexuality/erotics, and death, which she has also reflected in powerful and independent writing, sometimes integrated into the painted works, sometimes independent of them.
Marlene Dumas is counted among the foremost painters of our time and her work has been exhibited all over the world, most recently in a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Lately she has started to make work in which she experiments with new and surprising ways to make paintings. The show at Serralves is planned as an exhibition of recent work which will allow the public to track Dumas’ questioning and developing of her own achievements – in a way it is considered to mark a new beginning after becoming one of the most outstanding success stories in recent art.
Curator: Ulrich Loock Production: Fundação de Serralves
Marlene Dumas is counted among the foremost painters of our time and her work has been exhibited all over the world, most recently in a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Lately she has started to make work in which she experiments with new and surprising ways to make paintings. The show at Serralves is planned as an exhibition of recent work which will allow the public to track Dumas’ questioning and developing of her own achievements – in a way it is considered to mark a new beginning after becoming one of the most outstanding success stories in recent art.
Curator: Ulrich Loock Production: Fundação de Serralves
HomePage: http://www.serralves.com
music
Katie Melua
11, Oct, 2010
Coliseu do PortoAt just 19 years, Katie Melua released her first album which topped the music charts in the UK. Their first two albums sold nearly 9 million copies so far, with Katie Melua, one of the solo female artists who sold more records in Europe.
Currently with 25 years, Katie has had an extraordinary life, full of opportunities to express their creative spirit and adventurer, as well as his sensitive personality. He met and played for Nelson Mandela in South Africa during their visit to help center for people living with HIV founded by Mandela, worked hard in his position as Ambassador of Save the Children, piloted a plane, learned to jump and dive parachute; in his honor, a Dutch tulip was christened with her name.
Europe has won several awards, including World Music Award, Golden Camera Award one, and two German Echo Award.
After their participation in Cascais Cool Jazz Fest last year where the audience enthralled with her melodious voice and clear, Katie now back for a show just yours, where you can give the public a lot more Portuguese!
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Currently with 25 years, Katie has had an extraordinary life, full of opportunities to express their creative spirit and adventurer, as well as his sensitive personality. He met and played for Nelson Mandela in South Africa during their visit to help center for people living with HIV founded by Mandela, worked hard in his position as Ambassador of Save the Children, piloted a plane, learned to jump and dive parachute; in his honor, a Dutch tulip was christened with her name.
Europe has won several awards, including World Music Award, Golden Camera Award one, and two German Echo Award.
After their participation in Cascais Cool Jazz Fest last year where the audience enthralled with her melodious voice and clear, Katie now back for a show just yours, where you can give the public a lot more Portuguese!
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When: 9:00 PM
Where: Coliseu do Porto
Entry: 30 to 55 EUR
Duration: 2h00m (one break)
Where: Coliseu do Porto
Entry: 30 to 55 EUR
Duration: 2h00m (one break)
HomePage: http://www.coliseudoporto.pt/
stage
Sleeping Beauty
14, Oct, 2010
Coliseu do Porto"Sleeping Beauty" has become, along with other works by Tchaikovsky as "Swan Lake" and "The Nutcracker" ballet in one of the most spectacular and representative of classical ballet, and is represented by companies around the world. On this occasion, the Russian State Ballet, a company widely recognized experience, presents this show full of refinement and romanticism.
The argument of the ballet, but tell the story of Princess Aurora and her deep dream, like a thread conflict between the two forces; good (Lilases Fairy) and evil (Carabosse). However, the third act focuses on different dances of the court where you enter some characters from the tales of Perrault as "Puss in Boots," "Little Red Riding Hood", among others.
The ballet "Sleeping Beauty" includes the prologue and three acts featuring the choreography of Marius Petipa, the libretto by Ivan A. Vsevolojsky and the music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Originally debuted with great success in the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in January 1890 in full late Romanticism.
A show not to be missed!
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The argument of the ballet, but tell the story of Princess Aurora and her deep dream, like a thread conflict between the two forces; good (Lilases Fairy) and evil (Carabosse). However, the third act focuses on different dances of the court where you enter some characters from the tales of Perrault as "Puss in Boots," "Little Red Riding Hood", among others.
The ballet "Sleeping Beauty" includes the prologue and three acts featuring the choreography of Marius Petipa, the libretto by Ivan A. Vsevolojsky and the music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Originally debuted with great success in the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in January 1890 in full late Romanticism.
A show not to be missed!
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When: 9:30 PM
Where: Coliseu do Porto
Entry: 15 to 45 EUR
Duration: 2h00m (one break)
Where: Coliseu do Porto
Entry: 15 to 45 EUR
Duration: 2h00m (one break)
HomePage: http://www.coliseudoporto.pt/
stage
Lord of the Dance
21, Oct, 2010 >> 24, Oct, 2010
Coliseu do PortoLord of the Dance, the most popular show of Celtic music in the world, returns to Portugal for a more unique experience of movement, marked by the timing and accuracy, in choreography that expresses the strength of traditional Irish culture.
The story of the struggle of good versus evil in a magical show signed by Michael Flatley, seen by more than 50 million viewers worldwide.
"One of the most acclaimed performances worldwide dance performances" - Correio da Manha, February 27, 2005
"The Celtic dance and the visual effects are thought to fill the eye" - Vision, February 24, 2005
"A unique experience of choreographed movements and not to lose" - Destak, February 17, 2005
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The story of the struggle of good versus evil in a magical show signed by Michael Flatley, seen by more than 50 million viewers worldwide.
"One of the most acclaimed performances worldwide dance performances" - Correio da Manha, February 27, 2005
"The Celtic dance and the visual effects are thought to fill the eye" - Vision, February 24, 2005
"A unique experience of choreographed movements and not to lose" - Destak, February 17, 2005
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When: 9:30 PM (aditional performances on weekend)
Where: Coliseu do Porto
Entry: 15 to 40 EUR
Duration: 2h00m (one break)
Where: Coliseu do Porto
Entry: 15 to 40 EUR
Duration: 2h00m (one break)
HomePage: http://www.coliseudoporto.pt/
stage
OTango - The Ultimate Tango Show
26, Oct, 2010
Coliseu do PortoArtistic Director: Olivier Tilkin and Sabrina Gentile Patti.
Choreography: Adrian & Alejandra Hobert Veredice.
Dancers: Adrian Veredice & Alejandra Hobert, Claudio Gonzalez & Melina Brufman; Lucila Cionci & Rodrigo Joe Corbató; Christian Marquez & Virginia Gomez, Sabrina Masso & Daniel Escobar.
Singers: Sandra Rumolino and Jose Luis Barreto.
Orchestra: Cincotango! Ensemble - Emiliano Greco, Piano, Ramiro Boero, Bandoneon; Humberto Ridolfi, Violin; Olivier Tilkin, Violin; Keledjan Martin, bass.
Beautiful Music OTANGO returns to Portugal. After the resounding success of 2008 when exhausted all the rooms where he represented the true lovers of Tango Argentino now have the privilege to attend this magnificent spectacle.
Directly in the heart of Buenos Aires to major European venues, this prestigious Musical - applauded by the general public - is recognized by critics as the best show of Tango today.
Seventeen artists Argentinos open the doors of the mysterious, nostalgic, sensual, magical world of Tango.
This show returns to Portugal in October 2010, a company presents a musical renovated, with new scenery, new costumes original dating back to the 1910s, an orchestra renewed with great musicians and two pairs of new Tangueros - Dancers prizes in world competitions Tango - which confers enormous cast of quality artists.
1910, in Buenos Aires.
For having betrayed the woman he loved, a man, destroyed, lost the love of your life. Desperate, he decides to take his life in an act of pure insanity, but poignant memories, only his madness remains as their final refuge, in a state of alienation, sees the reappearance of his wife ...
This drama of passion is connected to another story, distinct, yet inseparable - the story of tango. Revisiting his past and redefining the present, this character travels through the golden years of this legendary dance music and Argentina in search of his lost love!
Perpetuated by Carlos Gardel, exalted by Astor Piazzolla, Tango is the true art of life, the essence of a nation, a way of life, the soul of Argentina! One bright love story in two acts, six scenes and over sixty original facts; OTANGO recreates the fabulous history of the roots of Tango, Argentina's legendary dance that unites the drama, the intense passion and sensuality.
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Choreography: Adrian & Alejandra Hobert Veredice.
Dancers: Adrian Veredice & Alejandra Hobert, Claudio Gonzalez & Melina Brufman; Lucila Cionci & Rodrigo Joe Corbató; Christian Marquez & Virginia Gomez, Sabrina Masso & Daniel Escobar.
Singers: Sandra Rumolino and Jose Luis Barreto.
Orchestra: Cincotango! Ensemble - Emiliano Greco, Piano, Ramiro Boero, Bandoneon; Humberto Ridolfi, Violin; Olivier Tilkin, Violin; Keledjan Martin, bass.
Beautiful Music OTANGO returns to Portugal. After the resounding success of 2008 when exhausted all the rooms where he represented the true lovers of Tango Argentino now have the privilege to attend this magnificent spectacle.
Directly in the heart of Buenos Aires to major European venues, this prestigious Musical - applauded by the general public - is recognized by critics as the best show of Tango today.
Seventeen artists Argentinos open the doors of the mysterious, nostalgic, sensual, magical world of Tango.
This show returns to Portugal in October 2010, a company presents a musical renovated, with new scenery, new costumes original dating back to the 1910s, an orchestra renewed with great musicians and two pairs of new Tangueros - Dancers prizes in world competitions Tango - which confers enormous cast of quality artists.
1910, in Buenos Aires.
For having betrayed the woman he loved, a man, destroyed, lost the love of your life. Desperate, he decides to take his life in an act of pure insanity, but poignant memories, only his madness remains as their final refuge, in a state of alienation, sees the reappearance of his wife ...
This drama of passion is connected to another story, distinct, yet inseparable - the story of tango. Revisiting his past and redefining the present, this character travels through the golden years of this legendary dance music and Argentina in search of his lost love!
Perpetuated by Carlos Gardel, exalted by Astor Piazzolla, Tango is the true art of life, the essence of a nation, a way of life, the soul of Argentina! One bright love story in two acts, six scenes and over sixty original facts; OTANGO recreates the fabulous history of the roots of Tango, Argentina's legendary dance that unites the drama, the intense passion and sensuality.
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When: 9:30 PM
Where: Coliseu do Porto
Entry: 17 to 35 EUR
Duration: 2h10m (one break)
Where: Coliseu do Porto
Entry: 17 to 35 EUR
Duration: 2h10m (one break)
HomePage: http://www.coliseudoporto.pt/
art
Grazia Toderi
24, Jul, 2010 >> 31, Oct, 2010
Fundação SerralvesFrom July 23 to October 31, Serralves Museum presents an exhibition of recent works of Grazia Toderi - a contemporary artist who has adopted one of the most singular approaches to video and photography. Cityscapes are common in her work, questioning our understanding of reality and the manner in which it is represented. This exhibition presents a broad range of the artist’s most recent works, produced since 2006, including video projections, photographs and drawings. All of Toderi’s video installations since “Rosso Babel” – in which she explores the allegory of the Tower of Babel via a fantastic and phantasmagoric virtual city – will be on display for the first time. The exhibition will also premiere the work, “Atlante” (2010) - a dual video projection in which the artist pursues her enquiries into the relationship between heaven and earth, between celestial and terrestrial mapping, once again confronting us with gravity losses and the horizon line. This work uses images taken in Portugal - specifically recorded for this exhibition.
Grazia Toderi’s cities are based upon nocturnal aerial photographs of selected cities that the artist has digitally transformed, inscribing light maps therein that pulse intermittently. In Toderi’s cities, the images convey a notion of joy through a specific perception of time. This sense of time no longer corresponds to our standard notion of time, although we nonetheless encounter multiple references within these images that lead us to a game of recognition, surprise, enchantment and discovery. The artist’s work transports us to a territory where strangeness transgresses the very condition of representation. This transgression of representation enables us to rediscover recognition as an alternative form of revisiting realities that we thought we knew, but which now appear in a transfigured form. We perceive identifiable elements, but don’t see them as we expect them to appear. These starry firmaments, animated by frozen movement, combine both innocence and terror, the enchanting and terrifying dimensions of an astronaut’s solitude, conjuring up an entire imaginary universe in which the spectator is confronted with the frontality of a view of the world that invariably constitutes a different perspective of a new world.
Curator: João Fernandes Production: Serralves Foundation
Grazia Toderi’s cities are based upon nocturnal aerial photographs of selected cities that the artist has digitally transformed, inscribing light maps therein that pulse intermittently. In Toderi’s cities, the images convey a notion of joy through a specific perception of time. This sense of time no longer corresponds to our standard notion of time, although we nonetheless encounter multiple references within these images that lead us to a game of recognition, surprise, enchantment and discovery. The artist’s work transports us to a territory where strangeness transgresses the very condition of representation. This transgression of representation enables us to rediscover recognition as an alternative form of revisiting realities that we thought we knew, but which now appear in a transfigured form. We perceive identifiable elements, but don’t see them as we expect them to appear. These starry firmaments, animated by frozen movement, combine both innocence and terror, the enchanting and terrifying dimensions of an astronaut’s solitude, conjuring up an entire imaginary universe in which the spectator is confronted with the frontality of a view of the world that invariably constitutes a different perspective of a new world.
Curator: João Fernandes Production: Serralves Foundation
HomePage: http://www.serralves.com
Nov. 2010
pop
Rodrigo Leão
13, Nov, 2010
Coliseu do PortoNearly two decades after the release of 'Ave Mundi Luminar ", a project of founding a solo Rodrigo Leão, celabrado the author of" The Mother "is about to pay tribute to the classic that launched with a new American record and release a passage the Coliseum in Lisbon and Porto epic guess that thanks to the participation of a choir of about forty voices. Who monitors Rodrigo Leon since the beginning of his career here has a unique opportunity to hear the particular magic of "Ave Mundi Luminar 'and fans during the most recent missed opportunity to witness a generous scale in the music that marked the start of a solo this composer.
The Sony Music Portugal plans a special edition that will include a remastered version from "Ave Mundi Luminar 'material' Theatrum 'and also some previously unreleased recordings made with the participation of Chamber Choir School of Music. This choir of about 40 elements is indeed a remarkable presence in the planned crossing of the Coliseum in Lisbon and Porto.
Rodrigo Leao, as everyone knows, has gathered enthusiastic applause with the latest phase of his career that has led to great successes in and out of doors. One of their latest adventures, for example, was a concert in Macedonia with a local orchestra that won him the most accolades by cultural agents of that country. Recently, exhausted the available tickets for a concert at the Music House, more than clear sign of the growing cult that their shows are relegated.
Now, the next release of Rodrigo Leão the pretext for a return to the Coliseum in a manner totally new. The performances of Rodrigo Leão framed with this new title in their discography mark the encounter with the opera singer Angela Silva and sound more minimalist and "classic" of the early records, to Latin to lend a mystical air to their compositions. On stage, will be a different formation that will stand the Chamber Choir School of Music - about 40 voices which will provide a spectacular and epic dimension to the repertoire of the early solo career of Rodrigo Leão In the repertoire of ' Ave Mundi Luminar ", who will hold the first part of the concert, there will be a second part where the themes Cinema Ensemble interprets the latest stage of the career of RRodrigo Leão.
(automatic translation)
The Sony Music Portugal plans a special edition that will include a remastered version from "Ave Mundi Luminar 'material' Theatrum 'and also some previously unreleased recordings made with the participation of Chamber Choir School of Music. This choir of about 40 elements is indeed a remarkable presence in the planned crossing of the Coliseum in Lisbon and Porto.
Rodrigo Leao, as everyone knows, has gathered enthusiastic applause with the latest phase of his career that has led to great successes in and out of doors. One of their latest adventures, for example, was a concert in Macedonia with a local orchestra that won him the most accolades by cultural agents of that country. Recently, exhausted the available tickets for a concert at the Music House, more than clear sign of the growing cult that their shows are relegated.
Now, the next release of Rodrigo Leão the pretext for a return to the Coliseum in a manner totally new. The performances of Rodrigo Leão framed with this new title in their discography mark the encounter with the opera singer Angela Silva and sound more minimalist and "classic" of the early records, to Latin to lend a mystical air to their compositions. On stage, will be a different formation that will stand the Chamber Choir School of Music - about 40 voices which will provide a spectacular and epic dimension to the repertoire of the early solo career of Rodrigo Leão In the repertoire of ' Ave Mundi Luminar ", who will hold the first part of the concert, there will be a second part where the themes Cinema Ensemble interprets the latest stage of the career of RRodrigo Leão.
(automatic translation)
When: 9:30 PM
Where: Coliseu do Porto
Entry: 15 to 35 EUR
Duration: 1h30m (no break)
Where: Coliseu do Porto
Entry: 15 to 35 EUR
Duration: 1h30m (no break)
HomePage: http://www.coliseudoporto.pt/
stage
Swan Lake - Imperial Ice Stars
16, Nov, 2010
Coliseu do PortoThe UAU producers provides for the first time in Portugal, Imperial Ice Stars show with Swan Lake.
The Imperial Ice Stars is acclaimed internationally for the sophistication of their productions. This renowned company brings together the best ice skaters of the world, among which stand out the double Olympic gold medal in ice, Evgeny Platov, and yet the pair Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviski.
Under the artistic direction of Tony Mercer, the largest maker of contemporary theater in the ice, this majestic production still has the most lavish sets and lush costumes, with music by Tchaikovsky, orchestrated live.
The enchanting story of a prince who falls for a girl-swan, will melt the Coliseum in Lisbon and Porto.
(automatic translation)
The Imperial Ice Stars is acclaimed internationally for the sophistication of their productions. This renowned company brings together the best ice skaters of the world, among which stand out the double Olympic gold medal in ice, Evgeny Platov, and yet the pair Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviski.
Under the artistic direction of Tony Mercer, the largest maker of contemporary theater in the ice, this majestic production still has the most lavish sets and lush costumes, with music by Tchaikovsky, orchestrated live.
The enchanting story of a prince who falls for a girl-swan, will melt the Coliseum in Lisbon and Porto.
(automatic translation)
When: 9:30 PM
Where: Coliseu do Porto
Entry: 12 to 35 EUR
Duration: 2h00m (one break)
Where: Coliseu do Porto
Entry: 12 to 35 EUR
Duration: 2h00m (one break)
HomePage: http://www.coliseudoporto.pt/
art
To the arts, Citizens!
20, Nov, 2010 >> 13, Mar, 2011
Fundação SerralvesThe exhibition ‘To the Arts, Citizens!’ is focused on some of the intersections between art and politics - understood as action, representation or reference - as manifested in our time. Some relevant issues crossing that relationship may be defined through concepts such as activism, citizenship, memory, archive, emigration, exile, ideology, revolution, utopia, iconoclasm, democracy, catastrophe, community, crisis, sexuality, environment, globalization, etc.
The exhibition brings together works produced by artists born after 1961, the year of the construction of the Berlin Wall, an object that materializes an ideological divide which marked the 20th century, and whose shadow still impinges upon political and cultural thought at the beginning of the 21st century. Choosing such a date as a referent – as it allows for the confrontation with a history extending, at least, from the present to the Paris Commune, in 1871 – is also intended to underline the significance of the political in the production of artworks in the last two decades, a realization brought about by the works of numerous authors whose oeuvre has been established in these years.
The exhibition will also include an historical section, where posters, magazines and artists’ publications will demonstrate how previous generations of artists dealt with political issues throughout art history. The curators of this exhibition are João Fernandes, Director of the Serralves Museum, Óscar Faria, journalist and art critic and Guy Schraenen, collector and specialized curator in artists’ publications, who will be responsible for the historical and documental section.
However, while in the past the political reference in the arts of the twentieth century, from the first modernisms until the 1960s and 70s was also a way of protest and institutional critique of the role of the museum in society, today it is important to questions the place of political reference in a world where, increasingly, art is also a sign of a society globalized in terms of its economy and culture.
‘To the Arts, Citizens!’ is part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Portuguese Republic, established in the sequence of the Revolution of 5 October 1910.
The exhibition brings together works produced by artists born after 1961, the year of the construction of the Berlin Wall, an object that materializes an ideological divide which marked the 20th century, and whose shadow still impinges upon political and cultural thought at the beginning of the 21st century. Choosing such a date as a referent – as it allows for the confrontation with a history extending, at least, from the present to the Paris Commune, in 1871 – is also intended to underline the significance of the political in the production of artworks in the last two decades, a realization brought about by the works of numerous authors whose oeuvre has been established in these years.
The exhibition will also include an historical section, where posters, magazines and artists’ publications will demonstrate how previous generations of artists dealt with political issues throughout art history. The curators of this exhibition are João Fernandes, Director of the Serralves Museum, Óscar Faria, journalist and art critic and Guy Schraenen, collector and specialized curator in artists’ publications, who will be responsible for the historical and documental section.
However, while in the past the political reference in the arts of the twentieth century, from the first modernisms until the 1960s and 70s was also a way of protest and institutional critique of the role of the museum in society, today it is important to questions the place of political reference in a world where, increasingly, art is also a sign of a society globalized in terms of its economy and culture.
‘To the Arts, Citizens!’ is part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Portuguese Republic, established in the sequence of the Revolution of 5 October 1910.
HomePage: http://www.serralves.com
Dec. 2010
art
To the arts, Citizens!
20, Nov, 2010 >> 13, Mar, 2011
Fundação SerralvesThe exhibition ‘To the Arts, Citizens!’ is focused on some of the intersections between art and politics - understood as action, representation or reference - as manifested in our time. Some relevant issues crossing that relationship may be defined through concepts such as activism, citizenship, memory, archive, emigration, exile, ideology, revolution, utopia, iconoclasm, democracy, catastrophe, community, crisis, sexuality, environment, globalization, etc.
The exhibition brings together works produced by artists born after 1961, the year of the construction of the Berlin Wall, an object that materializes an ideological divide which marked the 20th century, and whose shadow still impinges upon political and cultural thought at the beginning of the 21st century. Choosing such a date as a referent – as it allows for the confrontation with a history extending, at least, from the present to the Paris Commune, in 1871 – is also intended to underline the significance of the political in the production of artworks in the last two decades, a realization brought about by the works of numerous authors whose oeuvre has been established in these years.
The exhibition will also include an historical section, where posters, magazines and artists’ publications will demonstrate how previous generations of artists dealt with political issues throughout art history. The curators of this exhibition are João Fernandes, Director of the Serralves Museum, Óscar Faria, journalist and art critic and Guy Schraenen, collector and specialized curator in artists’ publications, who will be responsible for the historical and documental section.
However, while in the past the political reference in the arts of the twentieth century, from the first modernisms until the 1960s and 70s was also a way of protest and institutional critique of the role of the museum in society, today it is important to questions the place of political reference in a world where, increasingly, art is also a sign of a society globalized in terms of its economy and culture.
‘To the Arts, Citizens!’ is part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Portuguese Republic, established in the sequence of the Revolution of 5 October 1910.
The exhibition brings together works produced by artists born after 1961, the year of the construction of the Berlin Wall, an object that materializes an ideological divide which marked the 20th century, and whose shadow still impinges upon political and cultural thought at the beginning of the 21st century. Choosing such a date as a referent – as it allows for the confrontation with a history extending, at least, from the present to the Paris Commune, in 1871 – is also intended to underline the significance of the political in the production of artworks in the last two decades, a realization brought about by the works of numerous authors whose oeuvre has been established in these years.
The exhibition will also include an historical section, where posters, magazines and artists’ publications will demonstrate how previous generations of artists dealt with political issues throughout art history. The curators of this exhibition are João Fernandes, Director of the Serralves Museum, Óscar Faria, journalist and art critic and Guy Schraenen, collector and specialized curator in artists’ publications, who will be responsible for the historical and documental section.
However, while in the past the political reference in the arts of the twentieth century, from the first modernisms until the 1960s and 70s was also a way of protest and institutional critique of the role of the museum in society, today it is important to questions the place of political reference in a world where, increasingly, art is also a sign of a society globalized in terms of its economy and culture.
‘To the Arts, Citizens!’ is part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Portuguese Republic, established in the sequence of the Revolution of 5 October 1910.
HomePage: http://www.serralves.com
Jan. 2011
stage
The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky)
5, Jan, 2011
Coliseu do PortoThe Nutcracker, converted into a Christmas tradition throughout the world, is also, along with The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake, the most famous ballet by Tchaikovsky. Premiered in December 1892 in the legendary theater Mariinskii St. Petersburg, under the original choreography of Lev Ivanov and Marius Petipa booklet.
The story was inspired by the famous story by ETA Hoffmann "The Nutcracker and the King of Mice", even though the argument that, years later, would the lives of Tchaikovsky ballet stems from an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas pere made text.
The story takes place in Germany, home of the respectable judge Stahlbaum, for Christmas. Marriage-Clara and their children, Luisa and Fritz are visited by their relatives, among them the old Drosselmayer, an eccentric bachelor and lover of magic. This brings Clara a very special treat: a wooden nutcracker. Fascinated by his new toy, the girl sleeps cuddled him. In the middle of the night, Clara awakens: the toys come to life and she finds herself stalked by an army of rats. Unleashed a battle between mice and soldiers, led by the Nutcracker. Then the girl, the toy and Drosselmayer undertake the search for King of the rats Pais das Neves and other magical places, where they lived extraordinary adventures. Finally, all vanishes and Clara awakens in his home next to her doll.
The Nutcracker is thus a fable that tells of perpetual longing for the lost childhood and the contrast between the reality of the adult world and the dream world of children. Thanks to its colorful, the extraordinary imagination that overflow the characters and the adventures, and unforgettable music of Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker has become one of the most performed ballets in the world, and especially on those days.
(automatic translation)
The story was inspired by the famous story by ETA Hoffmann "The Nutcracker and the King of Mice", even though the argument that, years later, would the lives of Tchaikovsky ballet stems from an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas pere made text.
The story takes place in Germany, home of the respectable judge Stahlbaum, for Christmas. Marriage-Clara and their children, Luisa and Fritz are visited by their relatives, among them the old Drosselmayer, an eccentric bachelor and lover of magic. This brings Clara a very special treat: a wooden nutcracker. Fascinated by his new toy, the girl sleeps cuddled him. In the middle of the night, Clara awakens: the toys come to life and she finds herself stalked by an army of rats. Unleashed a battle between mice and soldiers, led by the Nutcracker. Then the girl, the toy and Drosselmayer undertake the search for King of the rats Pais das Neves and other magical places, where they lived extraordinary adventures. Finally, all vanishes and Clara awakens in his home next to her doll.
The Nutcracker is thus a fable that tells of perpetual longing for the lost childhood and the contrast between the reality of the adult world and the dream world of children. Thanks to its colorful, the extraordinary imagination that overflow the characters and the adventures, and unforgettable music of Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker has become one of the most performed ballets in the world, and especially on those days.
(automatic translation)
When: 9:30 PM
Where: Coliseu do Porto
Entry: 15 to 45 EUR
Duration: 2h00m (one break)
Where: Coliseu do Porto
Entry: 15 to 45 EUR
Duration: 2h00m (one break)
HomePage: http://www.coliseudoporto.pt/
art
To the arts, Citizens!
20, Nov, 2010 >> 13, Mar, 2011
Fundação SerralvesThe exhibition ‘To the Arts, Citizens!’ is focused on some of the intersections between art and politics - understood as action, representation or reference - as manifested in our time. Some relevant issues crossing that relationship may be defined through concepts such as activism, citizenship, memory, archive, emigration, exile, ideology, revolution, utopia, iconoclasm, democracy, catastrophe, community, crisis, sexuality, environment, globalization, etc.
The exhibition brings together works produced by artists born after 1961, the year of the construction of the Berlin Wall, an object that materializes an ideological divide which marked the 20th century, and whose shadow still impinges upon political and cultural thought at the beginning of the 21st century. Choosing such a date as a referent – as it allows for the confrontation with a history extending, at least, from the present to the Paris Commune, in 1871 – is also intended to underline the significance of the political in the production of artworks in the last two decades, a realization brought about by the works of numerous authors whose oeuvre has been established in these years.
The exhibition will also include an historical section, where posters, magazines and artists’ publications will demonstrate how previous generations of artists dealt with political issues throughout art history. The curators of this exhibition are João Fernandes, Director of the Serralves Museum, Óscar Faria, journalist and art critic and Guy Schraenen, collector and specialized curator in artists’ publications, who will be responsible for the historical and documental section.
However, while in the past the political reference in the arts of the twentieth century, from the first modernisms until the 1960s and 70s was also a way of protest and institutional critique of the role of the museum in society, today it is important to questions the place of political reference in a world where, increasingly, art is also a sign of a society globalized in terms of its economy and culture.
‘To the Arts, Citizens!’ is part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Portuguese Republic, established in the sequence of the Revolution of 5 October 1910.
The exhibition brings together works produced by artists born after 1961, the year of the construction of the Berlin Wall, an object that materializes an ideological divide which marked the 20th century, and whose shadow still impinges upon political and cultural thought at the beginning of the 21st century. Choosing such a date as a referent – as it allows for the confrontation with a history extending, at least, from the present to the Paris Commune, in 1871 – is also intended to underline the significance of the political in the production of artworks in the last two decades, a realization brought about by the works of numerous authors whose oeuvre has been established in these years.
The exhibition will also include an historical section, where posters, magazines and artists’ publications will demonstrate how previous generations of artists dealt with political issues throughout art history. The curators of this exhibition are João Fernandes, Director of the Serralves Museum, Óscar Faria, journalist and art critic and Guy Schraenen, collector and specialized curator in artists’ publications, who will be responsible for the historical and documental section.
However, while in the past the political reference in the arts of the twentieth century, from the first modernisms until the 1960s and 70s was also a way of protest and institutional critique of the role of the museum in society, today it is important to questions the place of political reference in a world where, increasingly, art is also a sign of a society globalized in terms of its economy and culture.
‘To the Arts, Citizens!’ is part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Portuguese Republic, established in the sequence of the Revolution of 5 October 1910.
HomePage: http://www.serralves.com
Feb. 2011
art
To the arts, Citizens!
20, Nov, 2010 >> 13, Mar, 2011
Fundação SerralvesThe exhibition ‘To the Arts, Citizens!’ is focused on some of the intersections between art and politics - understood as action, representation or reference - as manifested in our time. Some relevant issues crossing that relationship may be defined through concepts such as activism, citizenship, memory, archive, emigration, exile, ideology, revolution, utopia, iconoclasm, democracy, catastrophe, community, crisis, sexuality, environment, globalization, etc.
The exhibition brings together works produced by artists born after 1961, the year of the construction of the Berlin Wall, an object that materializes an ideological divide which marked the 20th century, and whose shadow still impinges upon political and cultural thought at the beginning of the 21st century. Choosing such a date as a referent – as it allows for the confrontation with a history extending, at least, from the present to the Paris Commune, in 1871 – is also intended to underline the significance of the political in the production of artworks in the last two decades, a realization brought about by the works of numerous authors whose oeuvre has been established in these years.
The exhibition will also include an historical section, where posters, magazines and artists’ publications will demonstrate how previous generations of artists dealt with political issues throughout art history. The curators of this exhibition are João Fernandes, Director of the Serralves Museum, Óscar Faria, journalist and art critic and Guy Schraenen, collector and specialized curator in artists’ publications, who will be responsible for the historical and documental section.
However, while in the past the political reference in the arts of the twentieth century, from the first modernisms until the 1960s and 70s was also a way of protest and institutional critique of the role of the museum in society, today it is important to questions the place of political reference in a world where, increasingly, art is also a sign of a society globalized in terms of its economy and culture.
‘To the Arts, Citizens!’ is part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Portuguese Republic, established in the sequence of the Revolution of 5 October 1910.
The exhibition brings together works produced by artists born after 1961, the year of the construction of the Berlin Wall, an object that materializes an ideological divide which marked the 20th century, and whose shadow still impinges upon political and cultural thought at the beginning of the 21st century. Choosing such a date as a referent – as it allows for the confrontation with a history extending, at least, from the present to the Paris Commune, in 1871 – is also intended to underline the significance of the political in the production of artworks in the last two decades, a realization brought about by the works of numerous authors whose oeuvre has been established in these years.
The exhibition will also include an historical section, where posters, magazines and artists’ publications will demonstrate how previous generations of artists dealt with political issues throughout art history. The curators of this exhibition are João Fernandes, Director of the Serralves Museum, Óscar Faria, journalist and art critic and Guy Schraenen, collector and specialized curator in artists’ publications, who will be responsible for the historical and documental section.
However, while in the past the political reference in the arts of the twentieth century, from the first modernisms until the 1960s and 70s was also a way of protest and institutional critique of the role of the museum in society, today it is important to questions the place of political reference in a world where, increasingly, art is also a sign of a society globalized in terms of its economy and culture.
‘To the Arts, Citizens!’ is part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Portuguese Republic, established in the sequence of the Revolution of 5 October 1910.
HomePage: http://www.serralves.com
Mar. 2011
art
To the arts, Citizens!
20, Nov, 2010 >> 13, Mar, 2011
Fundação SerralvesThe exhibition ‘To the Arts, Citizens!’ is focused on some of the intersections between art and politics - understood as action, representation or reference - as manifested in our time. Some relevant issues crossing that relationship may be defined through concepts such as activism, citizenship, memory, archive, emigration, exile, ideology, revolution, utopia, iconoclasm, democracy, catastrophe, community, crisis, sexuality, environment, globalization, etc.
The exhibition brings together works produced by artists born after 1961, the year of the construction of the Berlin Wall, an object that materializes an ideological divide which marked the 20th century, and whose shadow still impinges upon political and cultural thought at the beginning of the 21st century. Choosing such a date as a referent – as it allows for the confrontation with a history extending, at least, from the present to the Paris Commune, in 1871 – is also intended to underline the significance of the political in the production of artworks in the last two decades, a realization brought about by the works of numerous authors whose oeuvre has been established in these years.
The exhibition will also include an historical section, where posters, magazines and artists’ publications will demonstrate how previous generations of artists dealt with political issues throughout art history. The curators of this exhibition are João Fernandes, Director of the Serralves Museum, Óscar Faria, journalist and art critic and Guy Schraenen, collector and specialized curator in artists’ publications, who will be responsible for the historical and documental section.
However, while in the past the political reference in the arts of the twentieth century, from the first modernisms until the 1960s and 70s was also a way of protest and institutional critique of the role of the museum in society, today it is important to questions the place of political reference in a world where, increasingly, art is also a sign of a society globalized in terms of its economy and culture.
‘To the Arts, Citizens!’ is part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Portuguese Republic, established in the sequence of the Revolution of 5 October 1910.
The exhibition brings together works produced by artists born after 1961, the year of the construction of the Berlin Wall, an object that materializes an ideological divide which marked the 20th century, and whose shadow still impinges upon political and cultural thought at the beginning of the 21st century. Choosing such a date as a referent – as it allows for the confrontation with a history extending, at least, from the present to the Paris Commune, in 1871 – is also intended to underline the significance of the political in the production of artworks in the last two decades, a realization brought about by the works of numerous authors whose oeuvre has been established in these years.
The exhibition will also include an historical section, where posters, magazines and artists’ publications will demonstrate how previous generations of artists dealt with political issues throughout art history. The curators of this exhibition are João Fernandes, Director of the Serralves Museum, Óscar Faria, journalist and art critic and Guy Schraenen, collector and specialized curator in artists’ publications, who will be responsible for the historical and documental section.
However, while in the past the political reference in the arts of the twentieth century, from the first modernisms until the 1960s and 70s was also a way of protest and institutional critique of the role of the museum in society, today it is important to questions the place of political reference in a world where, increasingly, art is also a sign of a society globalized in terms of its economy and culture.
‘To the Arts, Citizens!’ is part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Portuguese Republic, established in the sequence of the Revolution of 5 October 1910.
HomePage: http://www.serralves.com
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