EXHIBITIONS
2012
FROM:, TO:, VIA:, by Ana Pérez-Quiroga at Museu Nogueira da Silva in Braga, Portugal.
Curated by Alda Galsterer.
Opening: January 6th
Duration: January 7th - 27th
Ana Pérez-Quiroga presents her most recent solo show From:, To:, Via: at Nogueira da Silva Museum, Braga, Portugal, inviting us on a trip to other worlds – a very peculiar form of revisiting the museum, and its eclectic collection of works and artifacts, confronting them with contemporary art.
These last years, the artist has been living like a world traveler, doing long trips and stays of professional nature, between East and West. From her journeys, she has brought new orientations and influences, walking paths that present and reflect themselves in her work.
We can follow the artist’s footsteps, from Lisbon to Shanghai, back to Braga, with works that reflect on the human condition: our need to cling to the present, by the means of photography, objects of memory that assure us of our existence and that our memories (of the past) are real – thoughts reflected on in the installation Breviário do Quotidiano #2, novíssimas aquisições (1999-2012), a collection of stolen objects, of different places, and that end up being exhibited in a museum and cultural context to be turned legitimate as objects of the memory of the present, as if they were gathered here for a show about our present for future generations. Creating an encounter with the pieces that inhabit the traditional museum space, the passage through this space is determined by Pérez-Quiroga’s works that challenge us with a new perspective on the past, to face our future.
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2010
A Museum is to Art what a great Translator is to a Writer
Group show with André Gomes, Bruno Cidra, Carlos Correia, Cecília Costa, Délio Jasse, Gonçalo Sena, Sara & André, Yonamine.
Baginski, Galeria/Projectos, Rua Capitão Leitão 51-53, 1950-050 Lisbon, Portugal
www.baginski.com.pt
Opening: May 26, at 10 pm
May 27 - September 4, 2010
With the kind cooperation of Baginski, Galeria/Projectos, 3+1 Arte Contemporânea and Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art.
We thank also the participation and kind cooperation of all the artists involved in this project.
2009
HEIMWEH/SAUDADE
This exhibit presents several new and site-specific works of six German and Portuguese artists; works that have been especially conceived in dialogue with the theme and location of the exhibition in Lisbon.
The title of this show is Heimweh/Saudade. There is no possible translation for the word from one language into the other. Heimweh in German is a word which, we know, was used for the first time in the 16th century, and for a long time it was used for diagnosing a disease identified for the first time in Swiss citizens that where going away from their country and by doing so reacted with strong physical and psychological stress. Later on this word was ‘adopted’ by German Romanticism in the 19th century (where it established it’s strong connection to German culture), it became a synonym for strong sensations, related to nostalgia felt for something missing or that had already disappeared, especially linked e.g. to the sensation of missing your country or fatherland (in engl: homesick, wistful). Saudade on the other hand is a work only known in Galaico-Portuguese. Thus, you normally hear that it has no translation into any other language. It is probably one of the most words used in Portuguese poetry, literature and music. A sensation you can describe with the need or urge for (doing) something, at the same time that it is known to be a special melancholic nostalgia and state of mind, that you encounter e.g. in Portuguese Fado music. We can also find innumerous texts about the Portuguese Saudade, one of them being the famous compilation of Eduardo Lourenço, called ironically “The Labyrinth of Saudade”, trying to elaborate essays on this so called Portuguese state of mind.
Therefore, the two words that compose the title of this exhibition happen to intertwine signs and ideas describing a state of mind very typical for each country and culture. It is from this semantic field that the research and discussion with one’s own culture and the culture of the Other develops.
Both words belong to two apparently very different cultures – the German and the Portuguese – but they’re part of a sentimental and linguistic universe of anybody who travels, departs and comes back… With this starting point, the intention of this show is to create a place of artistic reflection on the meanings of “globalization” and “interculturality”.
The artists invited, Susana Anagua (PT), Ramiro Guerreiro (PT), Daniela Krtsch (D), Lúcia Prancha (PT), Isabel Schmiga (D) and Juliane Solmsdorf (D) have already lived this reality of the traveler and immigrant, or are currently living it. Their experiences range from countries like Germany, Brazil, Spain, France, Great Britain, Portugal, Switzerland and Turkey, among others, and are presented in multifaceted and multidisciplinary ways as seen in their works for this exhibition.
Hence, the idea of discovering the different meanings of Heimweh and Saudade is the core of this show opening a debate about the different personal experiences that are not limited to the artist’s countries of origin, but enclose all kind of multicultural influences. Consequently, and being sensitive towards this special thematic and the peculiar space of Plataforma Revólver, as well as with a certain irony, the works presented here take us on a trip to other worlds and identities.
Plataforma Revolver is one of the most important alternative centers of contemporary art in Portugal and invited Alda Galsterer to present a new project for this space.
The participating artists are: Susana Anagua (PT), Ramiro Guerreiro (PT), Daniela Krtsch (D), Lucia Prancha (PT), Isabel Schmiga (D) und Juliane Solmsdorf (D).
This exhibition is financed by MC (Ministério da Cultura) / DGArtes (Direcção-Geral das Artes).
