All I want: Le Vivant
Discover the selection of works that integrate this thematic section of the exhibition “All I want – Portuguese women artists from 1900 to 2020” followed by the curators' text.
By Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Curators: Helena de Freitas and Bruno Marchand
Section 8 – Le Vivant
The constructive dimension highlighted in the previous section coexists with a focus on ecology in the form of plant life. Here, the discourse is balanced between different ways of representing nature and the summoning of living elements to the interior of the room.
Wall piece (2015) by Gabriela AlbergariaOriginal Source: Courtesy of the Artist and Galeria Vera Cortês
Wall piece, 2015
Bronze
8 x 20 x 15 cm
Courtesy of the Artist and Galeria Vera Cortês
Book of leaves (2015) by Gabriela AlbergariaOriginal Source: Collection Anne and António Castro Freire
Book of leaves, 2015
Cardboard, paper, coloured pencil on paper
21 x 13 cm (folded)
Collection Anne and António Castro Freire
Soquence 358 (2019/2020) by Gabriela AlbergariaOriginal Source: Private Collection
Soquence 358, 2019-2020
Inkjet print on fabric, acrylic paint on paper Heritage Woodfree Bookwhite 315 g
101 x 100 cm
Private Collection
In Árvore cortada em cubos e montada em linha [Tree Cut into Cubes and Assembled in a Line], Gabriela Albergaria not only materialises this gesture of passage from exterior to interior, but imposes a foreign geometry on the natural element, denouncing the innumerable acts of acculturation of nature that we have carried out over the centuries.
Tree cut into cubes and aligned (2019/2020) by Gabriela AlbergariaOriginal Source: Courtesy of the Artist and Galeria Vera Cortês
Tree cut into cubes and aligned, 2019-2020
Wood from a tree felled in Monsanto Forest Park, Portugal
49 x 847 x 49 cm
Courtesy of the Artist and Galeria Vera Cortês
Maria Capelo's imaginary forests restore to us the idea of landscape as a hierarchical construction through fictitious means, as though the mere manipulation of the components we have come to expect (trees, leaves, paths, wind) might allow us to fashion a landscape that is always the same, yet ever new.
Untitled (2018) by Maria CapeloOriginal Source: Collection Maria Capelo
Untitled, 2020
Oil on canvas
190 x 185 x 4 cm
Collection Maria Capelo
Untitled (2018) by Maria CapeloOriginal Source: Collection Maria Capelo
Untitled, 2018
Oil on canvas
185 x 190 x 4 cm
Collection Maria Capelo
Series "Corgo" (2020) by Maria CapeloOriginal Source: Collection Maria Capelo
Series "Corgo", 2020
Indian ink on paper
17 x 17,5 cm
Collection Maria Capelo
Series "Corgo" (2020) by Maria CapeloOriginal Source: Collection Maria Capelo
Series "Corgo", 2020
Indian ink on paper
17 x 17,5 cm
Collection Maria Capelo
Series "Corgo" (2020) by Maria CapeloOriginal Source: Collection Maria Capelo
Series "Corgo", 2020
Indian ink on paper
17 x 17,5 cm
Collection Maria Capelo
Series "Corgo" (2020) by Maria CapeloOriginal Source: Collection Maria Capelo
Series "Corgo", 2020
Indian ink on paper
17 x 17,5 cm
Collection Maria Capelo
The capture of shadows in the work of Lourdes Castro plays alternately with depiction and suggestion, the filling up and emptying of forms, while putting nature centre-stage. In so doing, Castro not only focuses our attention on the symbolic power of the mainstays of visual representation (light, shadow, outlines, body, spirit, immanence, transcendence), but also encourages us to reconsider our position in relation to the plant world.
Shadows around a centre (Cultivated fields / Lentils) (1985) by Lourdes CastroOriginal Source: Collection LC on loan to Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea
Shadows around a centre (Cultivated fields / Lentils), 1985
Crayon, coloured pencil and collage on paper; frame designed by Manuel Zimbro
84,5 x 84,5 cm
Collection LC on loan to Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, inv. DA 0162
Shadows around a centre (Blue iris) (1980) by Lourdes CastroOriginal Source: Collection LC on loan to Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea
Shadows around a centre (Blue iris), 1980
Coloured pencil and crayon on paper; frame designed by Manuel Zimbro
84,5 x 84,5 cm
Collection LC on loan to Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, inv. DA 0150
Shadows around a centre (Palm tree leaf) (1986) by Lourdes CastroOriginal Source: Collection LC on loan to Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea
Shadows around a centre (Palm tree leaf), 1986
Coloured pencil on paper; frame designed by Manuel Zimbro
101 x 86 cm
Collection LC on loan to Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, inv. DA 0445
Shadows around a centre (Lily of the valey) (1980) by Lourdes CastroOriginal Source: Collection LC on loan to Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea
Shadows around a centre (Lily of the valey), 1980
Indian ink on paper; frame designed by Manuel Zimbro
84,5 x 84,5 cm
Collection LC on loan to Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, inv. DA 0157
Shadows around a centre (Parsley) (1980) by Lourdes CastroOriginal Source: Collection LC on loan to Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea
Shadows around a centre (Parsley), 1980
Indian ink and newspaper cutting on paper; frame designed by Manuel Zimbro
84,5 x 84,5 cm
Collection LC on loan to Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, inv. DA 0151
Shadows around a centre (Dry narcissus) (1980) by Lourdes CastroOriginal Source: Collection LC on loan to Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea
Shadows around a centre (Dry narcissus), 1980
Coloured pencil on paper; frame designed by Manuel Zimbro
84,5 x 84,5 cm
Collection LC on loan to Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, inv. DA 0147
Shadows around a centre (Daisies) (1980) by Lourdes CastroOriginal Source: Collection LC on loan to Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea
Shadows around a centre (Daisies), 1980
Silver pencil on paper; frame designed by Manuel Zimbro
84,5 x 84,5 cm
Collection LC on loan to Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, inv. DA 0432
Shadows around a centre (Daisies) (1980) by Lourdes CastroOriginal Source: Collection LC on loan to Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea
Shadows around a centre (Daisies), 1980
Lithograph, natural elements; frame designed by Manuel Zimbro
84,5 x 84,5 cm
Collection LC on loan to Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, inv. DA 0160
From the series “Extroversion" (2006) by Susanne ThemlitzOriginal Source: Courtesy Galeria Vera Cortês
From the series "Extroversion", 2006
Terracota, acrylic paint on chipboard, wooden table
78 x 52 x 30 cm
Courtesy Galeria Vera Cortês
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Cover of the exhibition catalogueCalouste Gulbenkian Foundation
This exhibition brings together about two hundred works by forty female Portuguese artists. Its primary objective is to assist in rectifying the systematic erasure that works by these artists – like so of their sisters elsewhere in the world – have suffered since time immemorial.
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The exhibition All I want: Portuguese women artists from 1900 to 2020, in its first moment at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, is part of the cultural program that takes place in parallel to the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2021.
Exhibition organized by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture, Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage (DGPC) and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in co-production with the Center of Contemporary Creation Olivier Debré, Tours, and with the collaboration of the Plano Nacional das Artes (Portugal).
Curatorship and text:
Helena de Freitas and Bruno Marchand
Get to know in detail the universe of artists presented in this section through a text by Lígia Afonso / Plano Nacional das Artes:
Gabriela Albergaria
Maria Capelo
Lourdes Castro
Susanne Themlitz
