João Fernandes
João Fernandes said that in Portugal more than art collectors have been buyers of art. Tradition of collecting in Portugal.It is curious to think how in Portugal, in Portuguese houses and in the...
View ArticleAlexandre Melo
Alexandre Melo is curator of the Private Bank collection and Elypse Foundation. The collection of Private Bank was a collection started more than half a dozen years and was originally a collection of...
View ArticleBernardo Pinto de almeida
Bernardo Pinto de Almeida was always involved in institutional collections. Been linked to the collection of Serralves in the buying commission between 85 and 92, then in 92-95 was linked to the group...
View ArticlePaulo Cunha e Silva
Since 1990 I have been developing at the Serralves Foundation, rather systematically, around the major contemporary issues but there is always an artistic thinking behind.An exhibition is particularly...
View ArticleJulião Sarmento
A Portuguese gallery can never be able to put a Portuguese artist in Gagosian gallery. Portugal has zero power, how a gallery that is part of this Portuguese status may have some power? I think there...
View ArticlePedro Cabrita Reis
I don’t consider the triangle gallery / critic (curator) / Collector valid. Artists validation is done by the artists, museum circuit, curators, critics, etc., and finally collectors, in that order and...
View ArticleMemory of my father
Manuel Pereira da Silva was extremely methodical in arranging his day-to-day, geometric, like his designs. Every day rose at 6:00 am, did his gymnastic exercises in the room, was followed by a walk of...
View ArticleThe philosophical discourse of modernity
Habermas, Jürgen – The philosophical discourse of modernity. Texto Editora, 2010.The word "modernization" was introduced as a "terminus" only in the 50. The concept of modernization refers to a bundle...
View ArticleMichael S. Roth, Wesleyan University President
Michael S. Roth, Wesleyan University President, claim that the idea of "the modern" develops at the end of the 18th century and how being modern became one of the crucial criteria for understanding and...
View ArticleJeannene Przyblyski
Jeannene Przyblyski, claims that In the Modern and contemporary period, in terms of – isms. there is one – ism that we should perhaps confront directly, since, still, many of its assumptions inform our...
View ArticleConditions of Modernity
Jeannene Przyblyski, talked about the conditions of Modernity, to specifically locate them within a discussion of the experience of novelty and newness, and then talk a little bit about how that...
View ArticleMaking up the Globalization
Jeannene Przyblyski, want to look at the questions of novelty and newness and their relationship to contemporary art practice very selectively, from two different perspectives.From that of China and...
View ArticleAreosa Holy Lady
Areosa Holy Lady, in plaster, made by the sculptor Manuel Pereira da Silva, for the Areosa Church in October 1989.http://www.paroquia-areosa.pt/
View ArticleThe Aesthetic Capitalism in the Age of Globalization
Acknowledge the contribution of the artistic capitalism as well as its failures is the goal of this book of Gilles Lipovetsky and Jean Serroy.The purpose of this book is theoretical, opens, however, a...
View ArticleArtistic capitalism
Artistic or creative capitalism transestetic, which is characterized by the growing importance of sensitivity and design process for a systematic work of stylization of goods and commercial places, the...
View ArticleArt for the gods
For thousands of years, the arts into force in so-called primitive societies were not in fact created with an aesthetic intent and given a purely aesthetic "disinterested" and free, but with an...
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