The art collector Sindika Dokolo, husband of the Angolan businesswoman Isabel dos Santos, took another step to install the Port established his foundation to buy the house Manoel Oliveira for 1.58 million euros. The house designed by Souto Moura architect to install the filmmaker’s estate was acquired at auction, launched by the municipality, this Monday.
The owner of the purchase was the company Supreme Treasure, whose manager Mario Leite Silva, right hand of the daughter of Angolan president for business in Portugal. Established in September last year, this company is engaged in the “exploration of museums, monuments, buildings and other historic sites, including the preservation and exhibition of objects, sites and natural resources of historical, cultural and educational interest.” In addition to this objective “the purchase, sale and resale of real estate.”
Music Festival, exhibitions and exchange
Satisfied was the Porto City Council that in addition to cash inflow of 1.58 million euros, see materialize an agreement reached in March of last year, with Sindika Dokolo Foundation. The institution of the Congolese entrepreneur has one of the largest collections of African modern art, having already exposed part of it in Porto, with the show ‘You love me, You love me not’.
After being received with honors by President Rui Moreira, who assigned him the city of merit medal, gold grade, for their contribution to the cultural, the couple Sindika and Isabel dos Santos confessed to being seduced by the cultural dynamics of the city and want to install here a base of their Business. Something that much is due to the work done by the late councilor of culture, Paulo Cunha e Silva, a leading developer of relationship then established with the art collector.
Since then narrowed ties with some institutions of Porto such as Casa da Música and the Serralves Foundation, in which Sindika Dokolo joined the board of founders. The husband of Isabel dos Santos was also a sponsor of the last of the Future Forum, which in October brought together some of the biggest names in contemporary thought.
Approaching Portugal and Angola
then released by the Promises Foundation pointed to a cultural exchange between the two countries. THE VISION, Fernando Alvim, vice president of Sindika Dokolo Foundation, said even be provided funding to cultural activities that promote the approach between Portuguese and Angolan artists. In particular, a large music festival and an exhibition that put dialogue in the contemporary African art collection with the Serralves. “Africa has a sufficiently important modern and contemporary history to move around the world. It is important to have an institution in Porto to empty the existing complex in many societies towards Africa,” said Fernando Alvim. The plans also passed to fund cultural exchanges that took Portuguese artists to Angola and bring Angolans to Portugal.
At the Business Journal, Sindika Dokolo said that the house Manoel de Oliveira, now acquired, would be used “as residence for African artists and a space for the design of projects involving African and European creators. “
Rejected by Oliveira Family
It was with relief that Rui Moreira found himself finally free of a problem that had dragged on since 2014, when the house was auctioned for the first time, but did not show any interested. Located at the mouth, the house consists of a housing and an exhibition space, a total area of 1800 square meters. Having never been occupied, this equipment began to show clear signs of degradation.
After many adventures, the house would eventually rejected by the filmmaker’s family, who, after his death, decided to hand over the estate to the Foundation serralves, which will build a device designed specifically for this purpose.
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