Saturday, September 08, 2018

P55 Oporto Art Auction



Manuel Pereira da Silva
People, 1962
Oil on paper
Dim 32,5cm x 50 cm

President of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa



The Municipal Pavilion of Avintes Salvador Guedes, in homage to the founding family of Sogrape, a wine company based in Avintes, Vila Nova de Gaia will be inaugurated on Saturday, 08/09/2018, in the presence of the President of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, which will receive a sculpture by Henrique Moreira entitled "Avintes Woman".

Monday, September 03, 2018

P55 Art Auction


Manuel Pereira da Silva 
Untitled, 1992 
Gouache on paper
Dim 19,5 x 27 cm

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