All I want: The Writing Space
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
Theme 6 – The Writing Space
If the vast space of writing and, through it, the possibility of gaining presence and affirmation were issues explored in the last section, here we seek other ways this can be achieved through the work of two other artists.
Neograffiti (2001) by Ana HatherlyOriginal Source: Private Collection on loan to Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – Centro de Arte Moderna
Neograffiti, 2001
Spray paint on paper
66 x 48,5 cm
Private Collection on loan to Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – Centro de Arte Moderna, inv. DEP-AH-4
Neograffiti (2001) by Ana HatherlyOriginal Source: Private Collection on loan to Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – Centro de Arte Moderna
Neograffiti, 2001
Spray paint on paper
65,5 x 47,5 cm
Private Collection on loan to Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – Centro de Arte Moderna, inv. DEP-AH-1
Neograffiti (2001) by Ana HatherlyOriginal Source: Private Collection on loan to Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – Centro de Arte Moderna
Neograffiti, 2001
Spray paint on paper
65,7 x 48 cm
Private Collection on loan to Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – Centro de Arte Moderna, inv. DEP-AH-3
Neograffiti (2001) by Ana HatherlyOriginal Source: Private Collection on loan to Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – Centro de Arte Moderna
Neograffiti, 2001
Spray paint on paper
66 x 48 cm
Private Collection on loan to Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – Centro de Arte Moderna, inv. DEP-AH-2
Where Isabel Carvalho questions the foundations of written communication and its dependence on visual conventions, exploring the nature of the sign and the structures of the sentence and the book, Joana Rosa focuses on the drifts of the unconscious in writing and in drawings inscribed automatically on the margins of notebooks, saturating them and translating them to a monumental scale.
Plateau singers merge languages together (2013) by Isabel CarvalhoOriginal Source: Galeria Quadrado Azul
Plateau singers merge languages together, 2013
Engravings on plexiglas plates
31 x 227 x 17,2 cm
Galeria Quadrado Azul, inv. C3120
Lexicon CB (2019) by Isabel CarvalhoOriginal Source: Portuguese State Contemporary Art Collection
Lexicon CB, 2019
Clay shapes transferred onto blinds with spray paint
3 x (250 x 170 cm)
Portuguese State Contemporary Art Collection, inv. 1376
Interjections (2019) by Isabel CarvalhoOriginal Source: Galeria Quadrado Azul
Interjections, 2019
Clay, plaster, acrylic spray and cosmetics
27 x 12,5 x 4,5 cm
Galeria Quadrado Azul, inv. C3040
Doodles (1995) by Joana RosaOriginal Source: Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto
Doodles, 1995
Graphite on tracing paper
Variable dimensions
Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, inv. FS 0236
Doodles (Fragments) (c. 1991-1999) by Joana RosaCalouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Doodles (Fragments), c. 1991-1999
Graphite on tracing paper
201,5 x 189 cm
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – Centro de Arte Moderna, inv. 94DP1719
Both artists establish an unexpected dialogue with one of the most significant works of concrete poetry produced in Portugal: Ourobesouro, by Salette Tavares.
Ourobesouro (1965) by Salette TavaresOriginal Source: Collection Salette Brandão
Ourobesouro, 1965
Crystal with golden letters
32,5 x 32,8 x 11,5 cm
Collection Salette Brandão
Alquerubim (1979) by Salette TavaresOriginal Source: Coleção Secretaria de Estado da Cultura on loan to Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto
Alquerubim, 1979
Engraving on aluminium
100 x 100 cm
Portuguese State Contemporary Art Collection on loan to Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, inv. SC 094
Silence 1, from the series "Silence; 5 elements in bronze and aluminium" (2010) by Susanne ThemlitzOriginal Source: Collection Projeto Travessa da Ermida
Silence 1, from the series "Silence; 5 elements in bronze and aluminium", 2010
Bronze and aluminium
35 x 40 x 45 cm
Collection Projecto Travessa da Ermida
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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:
Ana Hatherly
Isabel Carvalho
Joana Rosa
Salette Tavares
Susanne Themlitz
