International Sculpture Symposium is back in Portimão

Sculptors will work live next to the Megalithic Monuments of Alcalar

The International Sculpture Symposium is back in Portimão, between the 18th and 24th of April, after a few years of interregnum. The event will bring together three artists, from three different countries, who will work live next to the Megalithic Monuments of Alcalar.

Every day, between 10:00 am and 13:00 pm and from 14:00 pm to 16:30 pm, "the production process of Thierry Ferreira (France), Oscar Aguirre Comendador (Argentina) and Sylvan Patte (Belgium) can be followed in person, who will transmit in the marble megaliths feelings and sensitivities at your disposal, in constant dialogue and sharing with visitors, who can thus follow live the process of creating a sculptural work of art», advances the Portimão Chamber.

The symposium was designed for four sculptors but, explains the municipality, «the absence of freedom prevented the Ukrainian sculptor Lyudmyla Mysko from coming to Portimão, honored in a solidarity gesture, with the placement of a bare stone, surrounded by the Ukrainian flag, which will not breathe, prevented from gaining form or art».

According to Arlindo Arez, curator and producer of the Symposium, also responsible for Associação Cultural Cuneo-Sularte, «in recent times, confinement has awakened in many of us experiences of anxiety and temporal uncertainty. Memories were confused, time passed, sometimes faster, sometimes slower and, in the growing whirlwind of countless similar days, we were bewildered, profoundly uncertain, lost».

During this seventh symposium, «the artists present propose us to return to certain certainties: a singular place, already understood as sacred and safe for a long time, that is, the monuments of the necropolis of Alcalar, where they will explore through monumental stone sculpture the possibility of continuity, of course, and the points of contact over time, surrounded by their megalithic predecessors, because in this sea of ​​​​uncertainties some certain things are not watertight, but they move with time, and above all, with us», adds .

Promoted by Cuneo-Sularte in partnership with the Portimão Museum and the Portimão Chamber, the Symposium is part of the program for the commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April in the municipality.

In parallel with this meeting of sculptors, and also on the initiative of Cuneo-Sularte, a video will be shown at the Centro de Acolhimento e Interpretação dos Monumentos Megalithic de Alcalar, and two sculptures on the theme “Thinking and sculpting for another world” will be exhibited.

The video is the result of the challenge launched to 37 sculptors by the Ivy Maraey Institute, located in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, most of them nomadic artists, who leave their works around the world where they are requested, or simply sow group culture and leave their mark. of your pass.

«Due to Covid-19 and the restrictions imposed for two years, these artists were confined, which led many to survive in states of economic fragility and depression due to the impossibility of working, traveling and giving physical shape to their projects», explains the Chamber. from Portimão.

It is the testimonies of these sculptors, «coming from different geographical areas and expressing themselves in their mother tongue, that the video brings together, revealing their experiences and difficulties, as well as the solutions they adopted in this troubled period», he adds.

On the date on which the VII International Sculpture Symposium starts, 18 April, the International Day of Monuments and Sites is also celebrated, which will be celebrated in Portimão with free visits to various cultural spaces.

This municipal measure covers guided visits to the Megalithic Monuments of Alcalar, where the symposium is taking place, as well as to the Portimão Museum and the Manuel Teixeira Gomes House, which will take place at 10:00 am and 15:00 pm in the three facilities. until 15 April, via email [email protected] or telephone 282 405230.

 



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