The exhibition “Joaquim Viegas – the Construction of the Scenographer”, which will show pieces by this artist, scenographer and collector from Faro, will be inaugurated on Saturday, the 18th, at 18:00, at the Municipal Museum of Faro.
This unprecedented exhibition brings together «drawings, paintings, personal notebooks with notes and scenography sketches, among other pieces and scenography tools by this important artist and collector from Faro» and will be on display until February 2023, revealed the Chamber of Deputies. Faro.
«Best known as a collector, Joaquim Viegas collected a fabulous collection of movie, circus and advertising posters, today candidates for National Treasure and one of the most prestigious collections of the Municipal Museum of Faro. On the other hand, few know his path as a student of Fine Arts at the beginning of the XNUMXth century and his respected curriculum in the world of scenography, having worked for the most important theaters in the country, in Lisbon and Porto », frames the municipality.
«This exhibition is thus a journey through artistic teaching in Fine Arts in the late XNUMXth and early XNUMXth century, but also through the scenography of the time. Joaquim Viegas, a native of Faro with an artistic sensibility, would succeed in this work, which required knowledge of geometry, arithmetic and mathematics », he adds.
Some of the pieces will be exhibited for the first time, «such as drawings on loan from the Faculty of Fine Arts, in which Joaquim Viegas received numerous and deserved distinctions, or others belonging to the collection of the Municipal Museum of Faro, which have been meticulously restored over the last year and a half».
An example of these pieces is a self-portrait by Joaquim António Viegas, «who welcomes us at the beginning of the exhibition into his world and art, without forgetting his roots».
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