2019-09-24
10h00
12h30
Conversations about Sarah Affonso
On September 24, during the two exhibitions about Sarah Affonso (Sarah Affonso. The Days of Little Things, MNAC; Sarah Affonso and the Popular Art of Minho, FCG), there will be a meeting to discuss various aspects of the artist's work.
The one-day meeting will be held at the MNAC, Multipurpose Room (10-12h30) and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (14h30-17h), in the Art Library lobby and will be attended by several researchers.
Morning program, from 10am to 12.30pm. MNAC
10 am
Rachel Henriques da Silva
“An exemplary project: Exhibitions and book Sarah Affonso. The days of the little things. MNAC and Calouste Gulbenkian Museum ”
Referential artist of Portuguese Modernism, enveloped in a decisive aura by her decision to abandon painting to devote herself to her family, Sarah Affonso finally knows a work that celebrates and problematizes her peculiar path with great breadth. I will address what interested me most in the different studies presented in the book and which the exhibits confirm: the plastic energy of his portraiture cycle and the absolute originality of his popularly inspired painting. Between Paris and Minho, Sarah personally resumed the tracks of interest Amadeo de Souza Cardoso 20 years earlier.
Raquel Henriques da Silva is Professor of Art History at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon.
10.30 am
Maria João Gomes Pedro
“My journey in the discovery of Sarah Affonso”
Following the reading proposal made by Professor Cristina Azevedo Tavares, Conversations with Sarah Affonso, we tried to get to know the woman and the artist better. Thus we went to the places where he lived, to better understand his written or narrated words to others, sources that are essential to us for the understanding and understanding of Sarah as a person, expressed in the individuality of her work.
Maria João Catarino Gomes Pedro. Bachelor in Childhood Educator, School of Childhood Educators, 1964. EESC at ESEI Maria Ulrich in “Ethical and Aesthetic Education in Children and Adolescents”, 1994. Master's degree in Art Theories at FBAUL, 2003, with Master's dissertation Sarah Affonso Life and Work. Teacher of Early Childhood Pedagogy for over 30 years at Maria Ulrich School of Early Childhood Educators.
11 am - Coffee Break
11.30 am
João Gomes da Silva
"Quinta Lameirinha: the decanted place"
Quinta da Lameirinha is the chosen place of Sarah Afonso and Almada Negreiros. The place where they build their other home, the secluded studio, perhaps reminiscent of the rural Minho. Lameirinha is not a farm in the agrarian and urban sense of the term, but the space chosen for the productive rest that seems to be found there. It is a place that was not designed in advance, but which was successively built by various additions: the house, the porch, the fountain, the atelier, the orchard, the pond… Quinta da Lameirinha is a carefully constructed place, without a project to be built. know, as if slowly decanting the drives, needs, enchantments, that of the Site turned it into Place.
João Gomes da Silva is a Landscape Architect, graduated from the University of Évora in 1987. He lives and works in Lisbon, in a studio created with Inês Norton, his wife and colleague. He is a lecturer at the Accademia de Architettura, Mendrisio, and the Autonomous University, Lisbon.
The one-day meeting will be held at the MNAC, Multipurpose Room (10-12h30) and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (14h30-17h), in the Art Library lobby and will be attended by several researchers.
Morning program, from 10am to 12.30pm. MNAC
10 am
Rachel Henriques da Silva
“An exemplary project: Exhibitions and book Sarah Affonso. The days of the little things. MNAC and Calouste Gulbenkian Museum ”
Referential artist of Portuguese Modernism, enveloped in a decisive aura by her decision to abandon painting to devote herself to her family, Sarah Affonso finally knows a work that celebrates and problematizes her peculiar path with great breadth. I will address what interested me most in the different studies presented in the book and which the exhibits confirm: the plastic energy of his portraiture cycle and the absolute originality of his popularly inspired painting. Between Paris and Minho, Sarah personally resumed the tracks of interest Amadeo de Souza Cardoso 20 years earlier.
Raquel Henriques da Silva is Professor of Art History at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon.
10.30 am
Maria João Gomes Pedro
“My journey in the discovery of Sarah Affonso”
Following the reading proposal made by Professor Cristina Azevedo Tavares, Conversations with Sarah Affonso, we tried to get to know the woman and the artist better. Thus we went to the places where he lived, to better understand his written or narrated words to others, sources that are essential to us for the understanding and understanding of Sarah as a person, expressed in the individuality of her work.
Maria João Catarino Gomes Pedro. Bachelor in Childhood Educator, School of Childhood Educators, 1964. EESC at ESEI Maria Ulrich in “Ethical and Aesthetic Education in Children and Adolescents”, 1994. Master's degree in Art Theories at FBAUL, 2003, with Master's dissertation Sarah Affonso Life and Work. Teacher of Early Childhood Pedagogy for over 30 years at Maria Ulrich School of Early Childhood Educators.
11 am - Coffee Break
11.30 am
João Gomes da Silva
"Quinta Lameirinha: the decanted place"
Quinta da Lameirinha is the chosen place of Sarah Afonso and Almada Negreiros. The place where they build their other home, the secluded studio, perhaps reminiscent of the rural Minho. Lameirinha is not a farm in the agrarian and urban sense of the term, but the space chosen for the productive rest that seems to be found there. It is a place that was not designed in advance, but which was successively built by various additions: the house, the porch, the fountain, the atelier, the orchard, the pond… Quinta da Lameirinha is a carefully constructed place, without a project to be built. know, as if slowly decanting the drives, needs, enchantments, that of the Site turned it into Place.
João Gomes da Silva is a Landscape Architect, graduated from the University of Évora in 1987. He lives and works in Lisbon, in a studio created with Inês Norton, his wife and colleague. He is a lecturer at the Accademia de Architettura, Mendrisio, and the Autonomous University, Lisbon.
2020-02-28 15h00
Guided tour
Guided Tours On Wednesdays, from February 19 until May 29 (excluding holidays), there will be, from 3 pm, guided tours of the exhibition “Biography of the Trace”. These visits are aimed at organized school groups (teachers and students of all levels of education). By prior appointment through the number 21 343 21 48
2020-03-01 11h00
Guided Tour
Guided Tours On Sundays, from February 16 until May 30, there will be, at 11 am, guided tours to the exhibition “Sarah Affonso. The days of Little things ”. Without prior appointment, limited to 20/25 people. They are aimed at the entire individual, heterogeneous audience, and as a goal they make the specific contents of the exhibition and the artist represented succinctly
2020-03-04 15h00
Guided tour
Guided Tours On Wednesdays, from February 19 until May 29 (excluding holidays), there will be, from 15:00, guided tours of the exhibition “Sarah Affonso. The days of Little things ”and“ Biography of the Trace ”. These visits are aimed at organized school groups (teachers and students of all levels of education). By prior appointment through the number 21 343 21 48