The exhibition "From one side to the other", which brings together works by José Pedro Croft belonging to the Serralves Foundation estate, will arrive at the Municipal Museum of Faro, on Thursday, March 9th. Like Sul Informação advanced first-hand in December, the Serralves Contemporary Art Museum, in partnership with the Câmara de Faro, will bring to the Algarve public an exhibition that brings together 15 works by the renowned Portuguese artist, who will represent Portugal at the Venice Biennale, which takes place between 13 May and 26 November.
Sample, the second in a series of exhibitions that the Porto Museum will bring to the Algarve, as part of the adhesion of the Faro municipality to the Council of Founders of the Serralves Foundation, will open on the 9th at 19 pm.
«From one side to the other» presents fifteen works, including sculptures, drawings and engravings, «covering the most relevant periods of the career of José Pedro Croft (Porto, 1957) belonging to the Serralves Foundation Collection and highlighting the main concerns and artist's methodologies”, according to the Serralves Foundation. The exhibition is organized according to four central themes: Monument and Death; Domesticity and Furniture; Mirrors and Glass; Drawing and Engraving.
«With an artistic career that began in the 1980s, Croft is one of the contemporary sculptors most concerned with a critical approach to the idea of monumentality, the tradition of statuary and the relationship between art and architecture. His work reflects on notions of time and space and how these affect our perception of sculptural objects, creating sophisticated visual games with surrounding spaces», added the foundation.
As it happened on December 7, the day on which the partnership between the two entities officially began, with the inauguration of the exhibition «The Return of the Object: Art of the 1980s», Thursday's ceremony will feature the presence of president of the Serralves Foundation, Ana Pinho, and the president of the Municipal Chamber of Faro, Rogério Cod.
During her visit to the Algarve's capital, in December, Ana Pinho stressed that “one of Serralves' missions is to bring contemporary art to everyone in the country”. «That is why, for us, this moment of approximation and partnership with Faro it's an honor. We are very excited about it as Faro it is a very important municipality, where we will be happy to be able to develop our activity», he said.
The foundation's president also anticipated the exhibition that will open this week, saying she believes “it will attract a lot of Portuguese and foreign audiences, as he is a well-known artist, also outside Portugal, and because he will represent Portugal at the Venice Biennale. important contemporary art event worldwide».
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