It is not difficult to reach Serralves without the subject studied and to be surprised by an exhibition with some singular pieces of contemporary art, retrospectives or exhibitions of art. renowned artists or by a lamire on some of the great collections of contemporary private art. The most difficult thing is to have all these possibilities simultaneously, which happens nowadays in the big art house of the city of Porto.
Until 9 September, the Serralves Foundation exhibition program aligns with its tripartite experience of visiting and contemplating contemporary art. Anish Kapoor: Works, Thoughts, Experiments and A
This is an exhibition of works from the Serralves Collection and the first organized by the new director of the museum, João Ribas
. Zero Conduct exhibits irreverent or disobedient gestures in the Serralves collection, whether directed to institutions such as the school or museum, or to forms repression or control. Thus, the exhibition is more than an exhibition of pieces, as an invitation to question the space itself and the function of the exhibition . Crossing the work of artists from generations, origins and various means, from the 1960s to today, the exhibition sheds light on transgressive behavior, opening a space for reflection on its censorship or its normalization in time .
Picture of Jorge Felix Cardoso / Shifter
Picture of Jorge Felix Cardoso / Shifter Picture of Jorge Felix Cardoso / Shifter Picture of Jorge Felix Cardoso / Shifter
Picture of Jorge Felix Cardoso / Shifter
Zero of Conduct hides the essence in the metaphor of its title, this exhibition has an explicit name. The prestigious gardens of Serralves – designed by landscape architect Jacques Gréber, surrounded by the house Art Deco designed by Charles Siclis and José Marques da Silva and by the auditorium and the library signed Álvaro Siza – will serve as context for the temporary stay of the works of one of the most outstanding and recognized sculptors of our time, Anish Kapoor .
In addition to the exterior sculptures strategically positioned in the garden, in an itinerary defined by the artist, the exhibition will also include 56 models of executed and other projects that do not have any. have not had the same result that allow the visitor to establish relationship between the intimate conception of the artist and the final work for his contemplation.
"The exhibition brings together a selection of exterior works representative of Kapoor's sculptural language, for which materiality, scale, the relationship with architecture, landscape and architecture are all important. Observer are constitutive factors. "
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Created by the influential gallerist Ileana Sonnabend the collection with the title of "Collection Sonnabend" (19659009) The Sonnabend Collection: Half century d & # 39; European and American Art – Part II (until September 23) his name is considered by critics as one of the most important collections of American and European art of the second half of the twentieth century .This exhibition follows that of the first part of the collection, and is no less interesting.In this second exhibition, the use of photography – from the 1960s to today -, the # 39; work of artists related to pop art to minimalism and conceptual art, including works by Gilbert
Another of the highlights goes to the presentation of sculptures by Jeff Koons produced between 1985 and 2012 and which constitute a small retr ospective on the work of this iconic artist. Organized by António Homem, the exhibition at Serralves is organized with the collaboration of the Fondazione Musei Civici Venezia (MUVE), Ca 'Pesaro in Venice and the Sonnabend Collection Collection
Emoji added to the algorithms of proof of censorship (Jorge Felix Cardoso / Shifter)
Other pretexts
In addition to these three renowned exhibitions, in the other spaces of the museum the offer does not stop not. And later, History – Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Severen is an exhibition organized by the Canadian Center for Architecture and offers an explanatory dialogue between two workshops on architecture and architecture. history of this art. ] In the contemporary projects section, until September 30, Martine Syms, artist residing in Los Angeles, is also invited by Serralves . Using video and performance, Sysms explores representations of darkness, its relationship to storytelling, vernacular thinking, feminist thinking, and rational traditions. The project, titled Lessons I-CLXXX, is a continuous work consisting of 30-second videos that the artist collects from various sources – including YouTube and TV shows from the 1980s – that the artist compiles in an almost random, disconnected, intuitive structure that the artist has compiled since 2014.
