Music and Words: Works from the Serralves Collection

The exhibition 'Music and Words: Works from the Serralves Collection' offers an itinerary through the Serralves Collection, encompassing works that, although created in different historic and geographic contexts, all incorporate the sound experience in their visual and conceptual discourses.  Ranging from the aesthetic vision of the event, to the artist’s role as a performer, passing through experimental sound practices, the exhibition draws closer to the sound experience, from the perspective of its social dimension in the contemporary world. The materiality of sound, the power of the word as a sound tool, the sense of catharsis associated with musical elements and allusions to the frenetic aesthetics of music videos, delimit an itinerary through different proposals that are transversally linked to sound, music, and the word.
Vasco Araújo, Dara Birnbaum, Luís Paulo Costa, Luisa Cunha, João Paulo Feliciano, Dan Graham, Ricardo Jacinto, Tony Oursler, Tone Scientists, Rui Toscano, Pedro Tudela Curator: Ricardo NicolauProduction: Fundação de Serralves, Porto  Related Activities 02 nov (15h-17h) | VISITA-OFICINA: Torres de transmissão alternativa 30 nov (15h-17h) | VISIT-WORKSHOP: Sound & Endless Colections 13 dec (18h) | Conversation with composer Bob Ostertag 14 dec (15h-18h) | COURSE: Give sound to town 14 dec (19h30) | CONCERT: Bob Ostertag