Art - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Temporary exhibitions
Two exhibitions were a continuation of the previous year’s programme: “Patrick Faigenbaum”,
held in the Modern Art Centre’s Temporary Exhibitions Room until 24 February, and “Come and Go:
Fiction and Reality”, in the large central space of the Museum’s level 0, until 1 June.
The exhibition “Vieira da Silva. Œuvres de la Fondation Arpad Szenes – Vieira da Silva et
du Centre d’Art Moderne José de Azeredo Perdigão” was on display until 16 March at the
Arpad Szenes – Vieira da Silva Foundation.
“Come and Go: Fiction and Reality”
Along with the “Moments in Contemporary Portuguese Video Art” initiative, organised by the Fine Arts
Department, with which the Modern Art Centre was itself associated, an attempt was made to ensure
that this exhibition could reflect upon some of the ways in which the moving image is used in the
international contemporary art scene. This exhibition was curated by Christine van Assche, from the
Centre Georges Pompidou, and was developed in association with the Fine Arts Department.
Presentation of the Collection
During 2008, the Modern Art Centre organised two different exhibitions of its collection:
› Works from the first and second Modernist periods, works of Surrealism and Expressionism
in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as works from the 1960s, were exhibited on level 01 until 31 May.
› Works from the second half of the 20th century, predominantly sculptures, installations and largesized
paintings, were exhibited on level 1. A gallery was created on both levels dedicated to drawing
from the decades under consideration.
› From 18 July 2008 to 10 January 2009, the gallery on level 01 presented a historical look
at 20th-century Portuguese art up to the period after the Second World War, based on Modernist works by
Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. Works by his contemporaries, such as Robert Delaunay, were also exhibited,
making it possible to follow the evolution in Portuguese art from the 1920s to the 1960s, in which figurative
works, of greater or lesser degrees of naturalism, were associated with abstract or abstract-like experiments.
› A selection of paintings by Portuguese and British artists were exhibited on level 1, together
with some photographs and sculptures: ranging from pop figurations of the 1960s and the highly
traditional British figurative painting to post-pop abstractions that tended towards minimalism.
The exhibition was completed with a gallery of drawing and sculpture.
Pedro Cabral Santo • “Tilt”
13 March to 22 June 2008
camjap Temporary Exhibitions Room
In parallel to his activity as a visual artist, Pedro Cabral Santo (Lisbon, 1968) has worked
as a curator of exhibitions, as well as taking part in theatrical performances and musical projects.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation José de Azeredo Perdigão Modern Art Centre • CAMJAP