HISTORIES: Works from the Serralves Collection | Villa, Park
from 27 JUN 2014 to 21 SEP 2014
‘Histories’ is a three-part exhibition
drawn from the Serralves Collection, highlighting the importance of
narrative in recent art making. Marking the 15th anniversary of the
opening of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, the exhibition
invites fresh thinking around art collecting and contemporary art in the
twenty-first century. The exhibition includes over 60 works in
painting, sculpture, film and video installation, photography and
performance, many recently acquired, together with a selection of works
by artists planned for the Collection.
Presented over the summer of 2014 in the Serralves Museum, Villa and Park, ‘Histories’ proposes three inter-related moments, in which visitors are invited to consider new trajectories in art across time and space.
Curator: Suzanne Cotter
SERRALVES VILLA
In the Serralves Villa, history is presented literally in the selection of works dating from the foundational decade for the Serralves Collection of the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. Presented in the light-filled interiors of the art deco Villa will be works by the lead proponents of arte povera: Giovanni Anselmo, Giorgio Griffa, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Gilberto Zorio; together with sculptural pieces by Hans Haacke, Imi Knoebel, post-minimalists Robert Morris, Richard Serra, Richard Tuttle and Barry Le Va; and seminal early sculpture, video, photography and conceptual propositions by Portuguese artists Helena Almeida, Artur Barrio, Alberto Carneiro, Lourdes Castro, Vítor Pires Vieira, and Ângelo de Sousa. Arising from distinct artistic but interconnected cultural contexts in Europe and North America at the time, these works share a concern with the physical properties of materials as carriers of meaning - gravity, weight, density, transparency, process and chance - and a relationship to the body in space as performing as well as perceiving.
SERRALVES PARKIn the Serralves Park, works by Zulmiro de Carvalho, Rui Chafes, José Pedro Croft, Luisa Cunha, Richard Long, Charlotte Posenenske, Danh Vo, and Gilberto Zorio enter into a relation with the formally designed gardens of Jacques Gréber, and the surrounding landscape of the Serralves Museum, designed by Álvaro Siza. Installed in some of the most beautiful areas of the art deco gardens, in the central parterre, the Rose Garden, and in the surrounding gardens of the Museum, the Holm Oak Glade and Yew Glade, these works will engage in fresh dialogue with the Park and pre-existing iconic works by Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen, Dan Graham, Richard Serra, and Fernanda Gomes.
The Serralves Collection in the Park will also coincide with a new, temporary outdoor commission by Nairy Baghramian as part of the Sonae/Serralves Project which will be on view until 15 December 2014.
Imagem: Mario Merz, Salamino, 1966. Col. Fundação de Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto. Aquisição 1998 Related Activities OPENING
27 JUN (FRI), 22:00, FREE ENTRANCE GUIDED VISITS
Access: by purchase of Museum+Park ticket
18 JUL, 19h30, Museum
By artist Leonor AntunesMore information here
27 JUL, 12h00, Museum
By storyteller Carla Pinto
More information here
10 SEP, 17h30, Park
By artist Luisa CunhaMore information here GUIDED TOURS
07 JUN, 15h00-16h00, Museum - for Members
By Serralves Museum Curator Marta Moreira de Almeida
More information here
08 JUN, 12h00-13h00, Museum
By Rita Roque
More information here
14 JUN, 16h00-17h00, Museum - English
By Raquel Sambade
15 JUN, 12h00-13h00, Museum
By Raquel Sambade
28 JUN, 15h00-16h00, Park and Villa - for MembersBy Serralves Museum Curator Marta Moreira de Almeida
05 JUL, 16h00-17h00, Museum - English
By Rita MartinsMore information here.
05 JUL, 17h00-18h00, Villa
By Rita MartinsMore information here.
13 JUL, 12h00-13h00, Park
By Rita RoqueMore information here.
09 AGO, 16h00- 17h00, Museu - em inglês
By Rita Martins More information here
09 AUG, 17h00-18h00, Museum
By Rita MartinsMore information here
31 AUG, 12h00-13h00, Villa
By Rita RoqueMore information here
05 SEP, 18h30-19h30, Museum
By Ricardo Nicolau, Deputy to the Museum DirectorMore information here
13 SEP, 16h00-17h00, Museum - English
By Rita Roque
13 SEP, 17h00-18h00, Villa
By Rita Roque
21 SEP, 12h00-13h00, Museum
By Raquel Sambade
28 SEP, 12h00-13h00, Park
By Raquel Sambade WORKSHOPS FOR FAMILIES
21 JUN, 15h00-18h00, Sala Multiusos
Collectors of Memories, Family workshop by Raquel Sambade and Rita Roque
WORKSHOPS FOR TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS
07-10 JUL, 15h00–18h00, VillaHistories Broadcasted, by Rádio Manobras and Serralves Education Service
Project "Serralves - Património Classificado" co-financed by Exclusive Sponsor of the Museum and the Exhibition
Presented over the summer of 2014 in the Serralves Museum, Villa and Park, ‘Histories’ proposes three inter-related moments, in which visitors are invited to consider new trajectories in art across time and space.
Curator: Suzanne Cotter
SERRALVES VILLA
In the Serralves Villa, history is presented literally in the selection of works dating from the foundational decade for the Serralves Collection of the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. Presented in the light-filled interiors of the art deco Villa will be works by the lead proponents of arte povera: Giovanni Anselmo, Giorgio Griffa, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Gilberto Zorio; together with sculptural pieces by Hans Haacke, Imi Knoebel, post-minimalists Robert Morris, Richard Serra, Richard Tuttle and Barry Le Va; and seminal early sculpture, video, photography and conceptual propositions by Portuguese artists Helena Almeida, Artur Barrio, Alberto Carneiro, Lourdes Castro, Vítor Pires Vieira, and Ângelo de Sousa. Arising from distinct artistic but interconnected cultural contexts in Europe and North America at the time, these works share a concern with the physical properties of materials as carriers of meaning - gravity, weight, density, transparency, process and chance - and a relationship to the body in space as performing as well as perceiving.
SERRALVES PARKIn the Serralves Park, works by Zulmiro de Carvalho, Rui Chafes, José Pedro Croft, Luisa Cunha, Richard Long, Charlotte Posenenske, Danh Vo, and Gilberto Zorio enter into a relation with the formally designed gardens of Jacques Gréber, and the surrounding landscape of the Serralves Museum, designed by Álvaro Siza. Installed in some of the most beautiful areas of the art deco gardens, in the central parterre, the Rose Garden, and in the surrounding gardens of the Museum, the Holm Oak Glade and Yew Glade, these works will engage in fresh dialogue with the Park and pre-existing iconic works by Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen, Dan Graham, Richard Serra, and Fernanda Gomes.
The Serralves Collection in the Park will also coincide with a new, temporary outdoor commission by Nairy Baghramian as part of the Sonae/Serralves Project which will be on view until 15 December 2014.
Imagem: Mario Merz, Salamino, 1966. Col. Fundação de Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto. Aquisição 1998 Related Activities OPENING
27 JUN (FRI), 22:00, FREE ENTRANCE GUIDED VISITS
Access: by purchase of Museum+Park ticket
18 JUL, 19h30, Museum
By artist Leonor AntunesMore information here
27 JUL, 12h00, Museum
By storyteller Carla Pinto
More information here
10 SEP, 17h30, Park
By artist Luisa CunhaMore information here GUIDED TOURS
07 JUN, 15h00-16h00, Museum - for Members
By Serralves Museum Curator Marta Moreira de Almeida
More information here
08 JUN, 12h00-13h00, Museum
By Rita Roque
More information here
14 JUN, 16h00-17h00, Museum - English
By Raquel Sambade
15 JUN, 12h00-13h00, Museum
By Raquel Sambade
28 JUN, 15h00-16h00, Park and Villa - for MembersBy Serralves Museum Curator Marta Moreira de Almeida
05 JUL, 16h00-17h00, Museum - English
By Rita MartinsMore information here.
05 JUL, 17h00-18h00, Villa
By Rita MartinsMore information here.
13 JUL, 12h00-13h00, Park
By Rita RoqueMore information here.
09 AGO, 16h00- 17h00, Museu - em inglês
By Rita Martins More information here
09 AUG, 17h00-18h00, Museum
By Rita MartinsMore information here
31 AUG, 12h00-13h00, Villa
By Rita RoqueMore information here
05 SEP, 18h30-19h30, Museum
By Ricardo Nicolau, Deputy to the Museum DirectorMore information here
13 SEP, 16h00-17h00, Museum - English
By Rita Roque
13 SEP, 17h00-18h00, Villa
By Rita Roque
21 SEP, 12h00-13h00, Museum
By Raquel Sambade
28 SEP, 12h00-13h00, Park
By Raquel Sambade WORKSHOPS FOR FAMILIES
21 JUN, 15h00-18h00, Sala Multiusos
Collectors of Memories, Family workshop by Raquel Sambade and Rita Roque
WORKSHOPS FOR TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS
07-10 JUL, 15h00–18h00, VillaHistories Broadcasted, by Rádio Manobras and Serralves Education Service
Project "Serralves - Património Classificado" co-financed by Exclusive Sponsor of the Museum and the Exhibition
