Novos paradigmas, nas Oficinas do Convento
Art and politics in the former 'Portuguese Colonial Empire.' The monument to Mouzinho de Albuquerque in Lourenço Marques
In 1940, a monument to Mouzinho de Albuquerque is inaugurated in the former capital of the Portuguese Colony of Mozambique, Lourenço Marques. The result of a lenghty commissioning process, this homage to one of the main heroes of the colonial pantheon becomes a center-piece in the many political rituals which had become common-place during the 1930s. The concepts of aura and cult value are used to analyse its “traditionalist” aesthetics and the role it played in political spectacles, arguing that it obeys a strategy of representation of the public space as “Empire.”
Making up a point, at the MACBA
Arte, dos puntos. Barcelona vive el arte contemporáneo. Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), July 2013 – January 2014.
L’art és una pregunta sense resposta (Àlex)
L’art és una cosa que fa qualsevol i ningú entén (Pablo)
L’art és poc democratitzador i eternament adolescent (Agustí)
El arte es excelente (Sergio)
El arte es basura (Marev)
– Answers provided by visitors to the question “Art is …"1
Fazer o ponto, no MACBA
Arte, dos puntos. Barcelona vive el arte contemporáneo. Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Julho de 2013 – Janeiro de 2014.
L’art és una pregunta sense resposta (Àlex)
L’art és una cosa que fa qualsevol i ningú entén (Pablo)
L’art és poc democratitzador i eternament adolescent (Agustí)
El arte es excelente (Sergio)
El arte es basura (Marev)
– Respostas preenchidas por visitantes à pergunta “A arte é …"1
A Participatory Public Art Process in Almada: Agents and Values
The impact of public art on the territory has an undeniable cultural dimension since it creates new sensorial and visual agents, with potential social interactivity. In this paper we present and discuss a Portuguese case-study of participated public art, developed for the Caparica Civic Centre (Almada, Portugal) by a team that includes artists (sculptors), anthropologists, local associations and inhabitants. The territory and the community were the main pillars for the conception of a three piece monument, built in a multicultural neighborhood, through a progressive and interactive working methodology, between 2011 and 2013.