Turn around. Um olhar sobre a Coleção de Arte Fundação EDP is the new exhibition taking place at MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitectura e Tecnologia, curated by João Pinharanda, Margarida Chantre and Sérgio Mah.
Selected from a vast repository of over 2,450 items, this exhibition highlights about 90 pieces by 58 artists, representing Portugal’s modern creative output since the 1960s. The exhibition also includes award winners of Grande Prémio Fundação EDP Arte and Prémio Novos Artistas Fundação EDP.
Turn around. Um olhar sobre a Coleção de Arte Fundação EDP is displaying artworks from four different Galeria Nuno Centeno’s represented artists: Ana Cardoso, Ana Hatherly, José Pedro Croft and Maria Capelo.
Ana Hatherly, an artist known for her intersection between literature and visual arts, is included in the exhibition with Alpha Shadows, from 1997. Here, abstract and illegible calligraphic strokes are present, resembling a language in its totality.
Madrugada-Raiada, 2022 is a piece by Ana Cardoso, which was previously included in Leaky Abstraction exhibition of 2023. Ana is represented with her cut-out and geometric canvases, where colors, natural materials, verbal experimentation, illusions of volume and movement overlap.
José Pedro Croft is referenced with Untitled, 1993, a sculpture composed of several mundane objects wrapped in white plaster, and Untitled, 1999. The latter is a drawing with overlapping lines, planes and color, where the two-dimensionality of the support is experimented with.
Maria Capelo is present with three small-format drawings entitled Untitled, 2022. Once again, the landscape takes center stage here with a quick sepia stroke.
Since it started in 2000, Coleção da Fundação EDP became one of the most important art collections in Portugal. Today it holds around 2,500 productions by more than 340 individuals, from the late 20th century to emerging artists.
This exhibition is divided into two parts with different running schedules.
MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitectura e Tecnologia
Av. Brasília, Belém
1300-598
Lisbon – Portugal
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