Thursday, August 30, 2018

P55 Auction House


Manuel Pereira da Silva
Untitled, 1962
Felt tip pen on paper
Dim 33 x 22,5 cm

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

P55 - Second Hand Luxury


Manuel Pereira da Silva
People, 1984
Oil on canvas
Dim 85 x 115 cm

Sunday, August 26, 2018

Vandoma Galleries - Oporto Art Auction


Manuel Pereira da Silva
Woman, 1984
Oil on canvas
59 cm x 79 cm

Saturday, August 25, 2018

Vandoma Galleries - Art Auction


Manuel Pereira da Silva
Man and Woman, 1993
Oil on canvas
83cm x 59cm

Friday, August 24, 2018

Vandoma Galleries



Manuel Pereira da Silva
Woman, 1997 
Plaster in aluminium structure
35cmx60cmx37cm

Thursday, August 23, 2018

Vandoma Gallery - Antiques and Auctions Trade in Porto


Manuel Pereira da Silva
Woman, 1995
Plaster on aluminum structure
54cm x 68cm x 41cm

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

The ART-MAP concept (Moving Curatorial Project)


The opening of the ART-MAP concept (Moving Curatorial Project) to diversified proposals allows us a set of immeasurable relations. From the artistic forms or disciplines, to the theme and the motif, from the technique to the support, from the author's experience to the proposal of curation and organization of the exhibition space, from the intention of the organization to the character of the supports, from the choice of spaces to the visitors, it is possible to group experiences and phenomena whose meaning leads to a "baroque thinking". In this case, the genesis of the project pursues a dynamic character, of movement and fluidity, which meets the theme chosen for the edition. The strategy of approach to the various spaces confers a spatial narrative character proposing an immersion and an experience that collapses different temporal dimensions, new and old forms.

However, one must understand what actually animates the experience. That is, the possibility of a baroque form of thought and of this movement will result in works that illustrate it. In this field, as the first intuitive approach, illustrate refers to the formalist appropriation of a set of signs generalized by the consumption of works of art and their popularization. In fact, this concept of illustration is the materialization of knowledge and knowledge. If some examples can easily be noticed among the present works, others escape it by the artist's will to ignore this sense of response or to seek a rational construction on the subject. Thus, it is possible to find explicit visual references - a volumetric carving, the tile pattern, the tension of a face, an infinite perspective - as other less immediate in the domain of the expression of idiosyncratic emotions, of disturbing the artist's spirit.

This ART-MAP event acts (much in the spirit) as a provocation, constructing a collective manifestation that allows us, from today and despite the proximity, a more objective analysis of the phenomenon. Its wide thematic spectrum, although less useful for a more definite study, enlarges the multiplicity of points of view according to the narrative interaction that can be established with the works. In this sense, always avoiding the immediate and more normative, shaper, one must look for all works that do not have an explicit reference to the past. That is, all those who, by force of a contemporary expression, in the spirit of time, refer in a manner analogous to a common, coherent, constant type. An analogue that is a quality, not necessarily formal and concrete, expressed by attitude. A type that despite intersubjective is clearly animated by the experiences of each individual.

This is an excerpt from the catalog text by:
Miguel Duarte, Director of the Nogueira da Silva Museum / UM

Monday, August 20, 2018

The selected works of art reflect the baroque


One of the reasons for uniting these various works of art is to celebrate freedom of expression and the beauty of artistic intention, which attempts, at the symbolic level, to elaborate original languages, to express the truth that anyone can feel but not realize. The power of metaphor allows for the extension of formal frameworks: even the minimalist piece can be baroque if it is conceived with a holistic intent, such as Round by Sharon Peterz. The massive object levitates, due to the sophisticated system of steel cables; suddenly the complexity and elegance of the solution of this suspension dominate its conceptual charge, the absurdity of this perfection surrenders the work to the baroque. The beautiful woman is screaming without producing any sound, El Fear of Sandra Jaume, exposed in the room full of sun, turns the air solid and causes the particles to stop in anticipation of the scream; the "total work" dominates space, the baroque is present. The artistic books of Maria X. Fernandez definitely reflect the baroque: pages rolled and folded elaborately are intangible to the reader, whatever the knowledge contained within, books seduce with the visual eroticism of their forms and evoke a nostalgic desire for the baroque.
This is an excerpt from the text of the catalog by:
Madina Zingashina, curator of the project ART-MAP Braga 2017

Sunday, April 15, 2018

Hyper baroque


"Clearly, baroque is fantastic," Gregg Lambert said. He did not fully understand this expression before the project "Thinking Baroque" took place. We can understand and interpret the baroque in two general ways: rationally, as a historical period, and consider its formal aspects: the chronological margins are defined and the masters are recognized, the principles of composition and characteristic elements are described and preserved with poetized society and spirit of that time. Alternatively, we can feel the Baroque as a transitional phenomenon, which can occur at any time, and which brings all matters to its maximum: the skill, the science, the emotion, the illusion, the violence. As one of the participating artists, Miguel Rodrigues, notably remarked, we are actually approaching a hyper baroque era; we can witness it, it is in the abundance of information, possibilities and technologies, in the full blossom and full acceptance of any ugliness and of any beauty. His installation, specifically made for "Thinking Baroque", is an assemblage of plumbing tubes and bent plastic: it shines with gold, it attracts with the softness of rich red velvet. Isn’t this a sublime of modernity?

This is an excerpt from the text of the catalog by:
Madina Zingashina, curator of the project ART-MAP Braga 2017

Friday, April 13, 2018

The baroque foretold modernity


The common impression about the baroque is that it is an irregular, obsolete, exaggerated, and necessarily royal, affiliated with the inquisition, aligned with slavery and colonialism. And here I would like to reflect a bit. Somewhere in the late Renaissance, in the occidental world, begins the democratization of art, and the Baroque, paradoxically, made a contribution to this. Resulting from the reactional intention to reaffirm the power of the church and the monarchy, Baroque concepts seek to communicate with popular taste, using gold, illusion, sculpture and decoration. Hence it brought to a maximum scale and impact all forms of art, from architecture to music, in order to convence with the magnificence of the celestial kingdom but ended up confirming the beauty and pleasure of earthly existence, finishing at once and for all with the remnants of Gothic asceticism. Aiming to convey to an illiterate population, the Baroque spread knowledge and enlightenment; inspired by the science and discovery of the world, the baroque foretold modernity.

This is an excerpt from the text of the catalog by:
Madina Zingashina, curator of the project ART-MAP Braga 2017