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Book Launch - Ph.06 Ernesto de Sousa

2021-05-15
To mark its centenary of Ernesto de Sousa, the National Press presents, on May 15 at 3 pm, in the garden of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, the new volume of the Ph. Series, dedicated to Ernesto de Sousa, a prolific multidisciplinary artist and avid promoter of synergies between generations of artists from the first and second half of the twentieth century.

At the table will be present Emília Tavares, author of the unpublished essay that accompanies the book “Zoom to the grain, to the scale, to the zero point”; Cláudio Garrudo, coordinator of the Ph Series; Duarte Azinheira, editorial and culture director of Imprensa Nacional and Isabel Alves, widow of Ernesto Sousa.

After Jorge Molder, Paulo Nozolino (both already in the second edition), Helena Almeida (out of print), Fernando Lemos and José M. Rodrigues, the National Press presents the new volume with the work of Ernesto de Sousa. The Ph. Series, directed by Cláudio Garrudo, is a collection of monographs dedicated to contemporary, bilingual, affordable Portuguese photography, which aims to make the authors' work known, with expert texts and presenting the expanded and multiple territories of Photography .

Activities

    2021-05-15 15h00
    Book Launch - Ph.06 Ernesto de Sousa
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On Exhibition

The c(AI)rcles’s Pentagon

By Gencork | Sofalca

2025-05-28
2025-06-26
Curatorship: Portugal Faz Bem
The design/art installation - The c(AI)rcle´s pentagon, which explores the connection between artificial intelligence, (re)generativedesign, art, and sustainability
Solo show

Caminhos

Millennium bcp Collection

2025-05-16
2025-08-24
Curatorship: Emília Ferreira, Regina Branco e Joana d’Oliva Monteiro
he vital need for contact with nature, also advocating movement as the essence of life, inspired by the thought of the writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau
Temporary Exhibition

THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN

João Fonte Santa

2025-04-10
2025-07-03
Curatorship: Lúcia Saldanha e Rui Afonso Santos
With an extremely relevant body of work in painting, drawing and illustration, João Fonte Santa analyses and dissects the heavy legacy of European colonialism, particularly in the case of Portugal.
Solo show

ALDEBARAN FALLEN TO THE GROUND

2025-03-13
2025-06-22
Aldebaran Fallen to the Ground is a series of shaped paintings, with irregular, organic contours. The intensity and incidence of light intrude on the viewing of those (most of them) faces, painted in oil pastels.
Solo show

Impressões Digitais. MNAC Collection

2024-12-12
2026-12-30
Curatorship: Ana Guimarães, Emília Ferreira, Maria de Aires Silveira e Tiago Beirão Veiga
Consisting of founding works of contemporary Portuguese art historiography, from 1850 to the present day, the MNAC's collection holds several national treasures.
Permanent Exhibition

Since 1911

2022-05-26
2026-05-26
An intervention that celebrates 110 years of the MNAC.
114 years