A new exhibition titled “Chuva de Verão” is set to feature the works of 25 artists and a collection of recent acquisitions by the Contemporary Art Acquisition Committee, as announced by the MMP in a press release. This exhibition is part of the decentralized exhibition program cycle of the State’s Contemporary Art Collection (CACE).
‘Chuva de Verão’ gathers “established authors and emerging artistic practices produced within Portuguese territory, showcasing the diversity and quality of the country’s artistic scene.”
The artists featured explore various techniques and materials in an experimental process, according to a source from the MMP.
Among the showcased works are a ceramic piece by Inês Zenha, a sculptural piece by Hernâni Reis Baptista with an image printed on marble, a painting with natural dyes on cotton canvas by Francisca Carvalho, and a fabric sculpture by Sara Bichão.
Other included works feature Vera Mota’s installation, using disparate materials such as felt, marble, wood, copper, granite, and glass, as well as Sara Chang Yan’s drawings that explore different supports proposing sensitive spatial experiences through light, transparency, opacity, and shadows.
The 25 represented artists also include Ana Cardoso, Ana Jotta, Ana Manso, António Palolo, Bruno Cidra, Carlos Lobo, Jimmie Durham, João Ferro Martins, Joaquim Bravo, José Manuel Rodrigues, José Pedro Croft, Júlia Ventura, Lourdes Castro, Maria Lino, Patrícia Almeida, Paula Rego, Pedro Valdez Cardoso, Ricardo Valentim, and Rigo 23.
The curators of the exhibition are Fernando Ribeiro and Sandra Vieira Jurgens.
According to the organizers, ‘Chuva de Verão’ shares the common theme of “dissolving the distance between seemingly distant and even irreconcilable dimensions.”
“Through a set of correlations between very different artistic practices, an exploration is made of a time of year marked by the expansion of beings, with corresponding spatial and temporal extension,” the statement reads.
The MMP concludes that the exhibition “contains no melancholy but a union with nature; a suspension of spatial limits that allows the reversibility and reverberation witnessed in the exhibition’s works.”
The exhibition will be officially inaugurated on Saturday and open to the public on the 8th, running until September 13th.
