Livro Vicente Rever para crer - Travessa da Ermida

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The program VICENTE ’12 deepens the commitment of the
Projecto Travessa da Ermida to the identity of the city of
Lisbon. Taking the fields of art, architecture, design, as well
as history, chronicle and fiction, as starting points, it establishes
from Belém the transversality of various collaborations.
It is in this dialogical and always unpredictable route that
Vicente – a symbol of spiritual renewal – faces the time of
crisis, by renewing his vows with both the real and the possible.
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This Vicente of ours began in 2011 with a set of urban art
installations, a jewellery design project, a program of situationist
walks and the publishing of a book ¹. After raking the myth's
richness, following up in 2012 to Vicente is a bet on the continuity
of the cultural concept that came to give the Ravens
of Lisbon contemporary meanings and multiple narratives of
St. Vincent. Retrieving one of the fundamental symbols of the
city in all its complexity, we propose a revision of an imaginary
now forgotten, but fundamental.
This edition serves as an addendum to the pages of Vicente
– Resonances of a Luminous Myth. The authors invited to
this bundle of loose ideas are the historian, archaeologist and
olissipographer José Luís de Matos, artist Pedro Penilo, chronicler
Pedro Malaquias and the illustration author João Cabaço.
Their texts and graphic projects are joined by the pages made
by the artists who embody the programming of VICENTE ’12
at the Travessa do Marta Pinto. Architects MOOV and artist
Miguel Faro, in the collaboration Long Streets for Short
Stories, propose a poster-leaflet which translates to the paper
the urban installation with the same name ²; André Graça
Gomes presents drawings made during the preparation of his
intervention Matriz, designed for the Ermida de Nossa Senhora
da Conceição, Alexandra Corte-Real reveals the previous
studies of the new project of jewellery for the concept Vicente
and Nelson Guerreiro anticipates the script of his romantic
September walks (animated by the collaboration with actor
João Abel). The editorial environment was made by Palavrão,
with the coordination of Rosa Quitério and the collaboration
of the Cordel collective; each section of the book was designed
less as part of a whole and more like a whole which is part.