Between the 24th of July and the 30th of December, the Municipal Museum of Tavira – Palácio da Galeria will host the exhibition “A arte que é – II”, curated by Pedro Portugal.
The show will be open to the public from the 27th of July.
This is an exhibition that integrates large-scale paintings, created between 1996 and 2002, as well as a multiplicity of experiences such as films, drawings, animations, performances and objects made from 2013 onwards.
The exhibition is curated by Pedro Portugal and includes works by the artist spread across several collections, namely, Altice Portugal Foundation, Caixa Geral de Depósitos – Culturgest Foundation, Carmona e Costa Foundation, Serralves Foundation, António Prates Art Gallery and Contemporary Art Museum de Elvas – António Cachola Collection.
«A universe in which art is explained, iconographically, in order to better understand what the artist and art intend to communicate: a 3-meter negative panda, a lambskin urinal, 40 ARTOJIS that emulate art and artists, a model of the Monument to Intelligent Football, the Monument to Black Toilet Paper, an interior sundial or a faceless version of Zé Povinho, among other works», says the Tavirense autarchy.
In this exhibition, Pedro Portugal «interpellates Art, through a research process that, in his own words, combines, quotes, steals, borrows and recomposes works and thoughts of other artists».
In this interpellation, which integrates different moments of his artistic biography, Pedro Portugal uses «the use of irony, play and the comic element, unfolds in constant allusions to signs and symbols, in a swing between visuality and language, between representation and meaning, through a profuse diversity of means».
«The purpose is the self-reflection of Art about its essence, both as an aesthetic and cultural phenomenon, and in its post-modern condition of political and social intervention and change», concludes the municipality.
Associated with the exhibition, the book “A arte que é – II” will also be published, co-edited by CHAIA – Center for Art History and Artistic Research of the University of Évora and by the Municipality of Tavira.
This book documents all of Pedro Portugal's artistic achievements, as well as his texts published in newspapers and magazines in the last ten years.
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