Siza Vieira file shows up in June Serralves – Daily News – Lisbon

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For the first time, will be known, from June 19 to September 18, the professional file Siza Vieira architect, recently integrated into the collection of the Serralves Foundation. Álvaro Siza at the show: the way of ideas or a file, which was announced yesterday during the presentation of the Serralves schedule for 2016 will be unveiled drawings, models, letters and minutes of meetings related to 40 iconic works of the winning architect. Among them, the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art and the School of the University of Porto architecture.

This is one of the foundation of the program of news, which is expected in the fall the paintings of Joan Miró, from the former BPN. Serralves have this year a program “ambitious exhibitions devoted to individual artists and artistic trends from the 1960s to the present,” as described the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Serralves, Suzanne Cotter. There will be over 500 events at the museum, the house and the Serralves Park. “And more than one event per day,” he added Ana Pinho, president of the board of the Serralves Foundation. Only in 2015, the Foundation received over 520,000 visitors.

“incessant use of the design”

Faculty of Port architecture

The estate of Siza Vieira who will perform at Serralves includes the projects of the Contemporary Art Museum of Serralves and, more recently, the restoration of the Casa de Serralves. But not only. Also the University of Architecture of University of Porto, the building of the Administration of Douro and Leixões Port, in Leca da Palmeira or station S. Bento, Metro do Porto is about to unveil. Among many others.

For the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Serralves Foundation, the exposure of the Pritzker Siza Vieira will be “another emblematic moment of programming by revealing for the first time, the newly built architect of the file” with more than six decades designs. What results from Siza Vieira donation in July 2015, part of your file (40 projects) Serralves. The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), of Montréal, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon also welcomed the architect of the file.

Museum of Contemporary Art Serralves

At the signing of the deed, Siza Vieira stressed that will be in Serralves both projects “more representative and sought after in terms of queries” in Porto, which are the Serralves Museum and the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto.

The show, curated by André Tavares reveals “the unceasing use of drawing as a privileged instrument of work.” Contains correspondence with customers, “the photographic record of the expectant places by works, relations with regulators and the opinions of those involved actors in the processes. Ultimately, the aim is to” share and rediscover the inestimable value of Siza work Vieira. “

Miró in study

The controversial works of the Catalan artist Joan Miró, from the former BPN should be” in principle “this fall, . patents to the public, in the House of Serralves, after the released proposed in December by the Minister of Culture, João Soares The guarantee was given by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Serralves Foundation Yet safeguarded Ana Pinho:. “We will try. We are now talking to see if you can accomplish or not, “the first public exhibition of Miró’s collection.

Suzanne Cotter said the first show in Portugal, photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, and one of . most important collections of art from the second half of the twentieth century: The Sonnabend Collection The director of the Park, João Almeida, highlighted the international conference International Exhibitions – Between Garden and the Urban Landscape: the Port of Crystal Palace (1865) to exhibition in Paris (1937) In the third edition of Blioblitz. – the inventory of living beings – There is light in the Park

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