Serralves Foundation Collection - SCULPTURE

In the second half of the 20th century, sculpture was confronted with new challenges resulting from the integration of an infinite array of new materials and questions associated to the nature of the place in which sculptures are presented or constituted.  Sculptures often fill the architectural volume of an exhibition space, thus becoming a place in their own right - establishing spatial autonomy through their implementations that effectively opens them up to the presence and configuration of other places in nature or everyday life.

The works presented by Robert Grosvenor, Jörg Immendorf, Neil Jenney, Robert Morris, Blinky Palermo, Tobias Rehberger and Joel Shapiro, pertaining to the Serralves Foundation's Collection, illustrate several of the paths opened up by contemporary art over recent decades in terms of redefinition of sculptural objects. In addition to their conceptual and aesthetic diversity, confrontation with these works makes us think about the intersection and intermingling of various formal genres, by means of the relations that these exercise between one another. The singularity of these artists' creative universes invites us to explore new perceptual horizons of sculpture, drawing, installations, architecture, space and time.

In certain sculptures we encounter a dialogue and subversion of the structuralist and minimalist tradition, as primary structures that reveal possibilities of materials and different modes of presentation underlying their formal programme, while in others we encounter constant questioning of the functionality of sculpture in its relationship with the world and the references of its respective places.

 
Curators: João Fernandes/ Sandra Guimarães
Production: Serralves Foundation

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