'The Serralves Foundation is promoting the launch of the catalogue Luis Miguel Cintra: Pequeno Teatro do Mundo (Luis Miguel Cintra: Small Theatre of the World), which accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on display at the Casa do Cinema Manoel de Oliveira. Based on the surprising collection of sculptural figures that Luis Miguel Cintra has gathered over the years in his home, the book reveals a personal universe where art, memory and theatre intersect. More than a collection of objects, it is a true domestic scenography, where the director lives with hundreds of figures that take on the status of silent characters, organised according to a dramaturgical logic. An intimate theatre, between the visible and the imagined, an original reflection on the act of staging, ways of seeing and showing, and the persistence of theatre as a way of life.


More than just a catalogue, this publication is a testimony to the life and art of Luis Miguel Cintra, intertwining memories, stagings and cinema — with special emphasis on his long collaboration with Manoel de Oliveira. The catalogue brings together unpublished essays by Paulo Raposo, Luis Miguel Cintra and Regina Guimarães, an extensive conversation with the actor conducted by António Preto, and a photographic record, specially commissioned from André Cepeda, which documents this dense and unique universe.


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