An exhibition by artist Patti Smith and a retrospective on the body of work of choreographer João Fiadeiro will mark the exhibition season at the Museum of Modern Art/Belém Cultural Center (MAC/CCB) in Lisbon.
“Evidence: Soundwalk Collective & Patti Smith” will be the title of the exhibition scheduled for March 22, which is part of a journey of work carried out by Soundwalk Collective and the artist Patti Smith between 2017 and 2020, according to the full program sent today to the Lusa agency.
Together, they produced a triple album entitled “Perfect Vision”, which portrays the journeys of three French poets who explored transcendence in three different geographical territories: Arthur Rimbaud in what was then Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), Antonin Artaud in the Sierra Tarahumara in Mexico, and René Daumal, who went to the source of the Bhagavad Gita, in the sacred land of India, in search of Mount Analog.
“Each of the three authors sought, in their own way, places that would help them disappear and transcend their own existence,” and it is in these metaphysical journeys that the musical and sound composition of the “Perfect Vision” trilogy was inspired, which became the starting point for this exhibition with a sensory sound installation and a poetic journey through the texts and visions evoked by the three writers.
Between April 30 and September 22, the galleries of the museum and the theater spaces of the CCB Performance Center will host a two-part retrospective of the body of work of choreographer and performer João Fiadeiro.
“João Fiadeiro. Introspetiva” will, during the month of May, have as its central curatorial axis, the concept of a “construction site”, with the assembly of the exhibition accessible to visitors and transformed into a daily ‘happening’, with presentations of dramaturgical and choreographic devices, real-time compositions and improvisations, re-enactments, open classes and guided tours.
In the second half, from June 21, visitors will have access to the exhibition “Restos, Rastros e Traços” (Remains, Traces and Traces), which will include “what was left behind from the experiences and experiments produced in live mode” during the first part of the event, and the exhibition “I Am (not) Here”, based on the work “I Am Here” by João Fiadeiro, premiered in 2004 at the CCB, inspired by the imagery of visual artist Helena Almeida (1934-2018).
Finally, this second moment will feature a room dedicated to the exhibition of various objects created in collaboration with João Fiadeiro by artists with whom he has crossed paths over the last thirty years.
Between June 21 and July 6, “Dar Corpo” will take place in the Black Box and the small auditorium, with a program and a selection of pieces from João Fiadeiro’s repertoire to be danced by him, by guest artists and by performers from new generations.
Before that, on April 11, the exhibition “Marina Tabassum. News from Bangladesh”, which will be on show until September, featuring various public and private building projects on which the architect has worked since 1995, first with the Urbana architecture studio and, since 2005, through the Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA) studio.
Projects include the Independence Museum and Monument in Dhaka, Bangladesh, as well as its involvement in various projects for the 1.2 million Rohingya refugees, who are marginalized in various countries for ethnic and religious reasons.
The exhibition, curated by Vera Simone Bader and André Tavares, is organized by the Architekturmuseum der TUM in Munich and the CCB’s Architecture Centre/South Garage.
From May onwards, two more architecture exhibitions will be held there: “Hestnes Ferreira: form, matter, light” and “L’Amour Fou. Art architecture”.
The first aims to understand and situate the architecture of Raul Hestnes Ferreira (1931-2018) based on the documentation in the Marques da Silva Foundation archive, in an exhibition that presents a selection of 13 works made between the late 1960s and the first decade of the 21st century.
Also presented – in this exhibition curated by Alexandra Saraiva, Patrícia Bento d’Almeida and Paulo Tormenta Pinto – is an itinerary to propose “another understanding of the uniqueness of Hestnes Ferreira’s work process and the significance of his architecture”.
“L’Amour Fou. Arte arquitetura”, an appropriate title for André Breton’s 1937 novel, is an exhibition whose central theme is “the encounters and seduction of visual artists by architecture, and sometimes also their mismatches”, according to the program.
The exhibition includes works by Dan Graham, Thomas Schütte, Thomas Struth, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Marepe, among others.
In October, from the 15th until March 2025, it will be the turn of “Homo Urbanus. A City-matograhic Odyssey by Bêka & Lemoine”, about the work of the duo of filmmakers who, over the last 15 years, have been investigating how people live and relate to the space of cities.
A solo exhibition dedicated to the American artist Fred Sandback (1943-2003), curated by Lilian Tone and in collaboration with the Fred Sandback Estate and Archive, will be on view until October 24. It will include sculptures, some of which have never been exhibited, reliefs and drawings.
