The home of filmmaker today sold for 1.58 million euros, will be the new headquarters of Sindika Dokolo Foundation for Europe and a “space reflection and learning for young artists. “
” As we establish a building as the House Manoel de Oliveira, in full Porto Foz, we affirm our intention to help make the Port yet more cosmopolitan and more cultural, “said the president of the Foundation, Sindika Dokolo in a statement.
The building conceived two decades ago to house the collection of the filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira was today sold for 1.58 million of euros by the camera of Porto in a second auction after the first, in 2014, have been deserted.
The house was purchased by the Supreme Treasure, managed by Mário Leite da Silva, representative of the Angolan businesswoman Isabel dos Santos, according to information now consulted by Lusa.
“In this space we promote artistic reflection networks and strengthen ties between Portugal and Angola, Europe and Africa, in a ode to art as a unifying element of peoples and countries,” he said Sindika Dokolo.
To promote the culture, including art, is the underlying goal to Sindika Dokolo Foundation, a contemporary art center that, in addition to gathering works, aims to provide conditions and promote activities aimed at integrating artists in international circles of the art world.
Once you have organized the exhibition “You Love Me, You Love Me Not”, one of the most important contemporary art in Europe, the Crystal Palace Gardens in 2015, the Foundation Sindika Dokolo reinforces their connection to the city of Porto.
In March 2015, the patron received the municipal medal of merit, Grade Gold by the city of Porto, a tribute and recognition of the city for their contribution to the local culture.
The art collection of Sindika Dokolo Foundation, created in 2003 in Luanda, Angola, comprises more than 3,000 works, including paintings, engravings, photographs, videos and installations, made by 90 artists from 25 countries, reads the note.
The president of the municipality of Porto, Rui Moreira, the sale of the house is “more than a relief “because” there was a great concern “for this to be” abandonment “, so that” beyond the monetary interests “of the sale, is also solved” a rehabilitation problem. “
” It is a house designed by Souto Moura therefore has at once a material impact on the city’s architectural point of view and was an asset that was lost because the use for which it was designed was never realized and it was certainly not the fault of the town hall, “he said.
The House Manoel de Oliveira was launched in 1998, without having been formalized an agreement with the director for use of the house, which would eventually influence the future property which was completed in 2003 but never had the use for which it was designed.
In 2007, the filmmaker’s lawyer blamed the chamber, led by Social Democrat Rui Rio, the failure of the creation of the house-museum.
About Four years later, the son of the director, José Manuel Oliveira, said it had been broken off for lack of agreement, the collection of the transfer case to the building, noting that the conduct of the local authority had taken the director to not accept ” City key “.
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