The project Other Perspectives aims to promote a comprehensive reflection on the collection of the National Museum of Contemporary Art – Museu do Chiado, and simultaneously to provide a panoramic and wide-ranging view of Portuguese artistic production in a chronological arc beginning with Romanticism (1850-1880) and ending with the Contemporary Period of the Twenty-first Century.
The exhibited works result from invitations sent to the most renowned Portuguese art historians, curators and artists who were asked to choose a piece of art from the Museum’s collection which is representative of each particular decade.
The sequential exhibitions will be accompanied by a text and an informal debate about each chosen piece which will be held on the 18th of every month.
At the end of the series, all of the pieces from this programme will be exhibited and published in a catalogue which brings together the images and texts produced by the various authors, and which will remain as a record and testimony of a diverse and wide-ranging view of Portuguese art from the nineteenth century to the contemporary period.
Curators: Helena Barranha and Rui Afonso Santos
Currently on display
Paisagem tirada da Charneca de Belas ao pôr-do-sol, 1879 - Silva Porto
Ribas na costa, Praia das Maçãs, c. 1880 - Alfredo Keil
Sem título, 1945-54 - Adelino Lyon de Castro
Sem título, 1945-54 - Adelino Lyon de Castro
Talk with Maria de Aires Silveira on May 18, Wednesday, at 12h30 am
Past editions
Paisagem tirada da Charneca de Belas ao pôr-do-sol, 1879 - Silva Porto
Ribas na costa, Praia das Maçãs, c. 1880 - Alfredo Keil
Sem título, 1945-54 - Adelino Lyon de Castro
Sem título, 1945-54 - Adelino Lyon de Castro
Talk with Emília Tavares on April 17, Sunday, at 12h30 am
Cena de guerra - Christiano Cruz
Talk with Rui Afonso Santos on March 13, Sunday at 12 a.m.
Episódio com um cão - António Dacosta
Talk with Rui Mário Gonçalves on February 13, Sunday at 12 a.m.
A Ceia - Rui Serra
Talk with the artist on January 18 at 1 p.m
Menino e varina - Mário Eloy
Talk with Fernando Rosa Dias on December 18 at 1 p.m.
Kultur 1962 - Joaquim Rodrigo
Talk with Fernanda Fragateiro on November 18 at 1 p.m.
C 19 - Joaquim Rodrigo
Talk with Ângela Ferreira on October 19 at 2,30 p.m.
Teatro de atelier - Fernando Lemos
Talk with Delfim Sardo on September 18 at 1 p.m.
Sabbat - Dança de Roda - António Pedro
Talk with David Santos on August 18 at 1 p.m.
Homenagem a Amsterdão - Jorge Pinheiro
Talk with João Pinharanda on July 18 at 1 p.m.
Chorinho - Cândido Portinari
Talk with Raquel Henriques da Silva on June 18 at 1 p.m.
Landscape - Julião Sarmento
Talk with Alexandre Melo on May 18 at 1 p.m.
O Grupo do Leão - Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro
Talk with José-Augusto França on April 18 at 1 p.m.
