Which exhibitions should I visit during the month of November?
Some of the most anticipated exhibits are here. With new works from up-and-coming creators to fascinating 20th-century artists, we recommend five national exhibitions that deserve a visit with a lynx's eye, attentive to the smallest detail.
1. Cindy Sherman: Metamorphoses in Serralves until 16 APR 2023
Cindy Sherman: Metamorphoses presents a series of works that cross the artist's career from its beginning to the most recent works. The exhibition was organized in dialogue with the artist and in partnership with The Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles, an institution that has been exhaustively collecting Sherman's work for over thirty years. Especially known for images in which she portrays herself as a model of her own work, embodying the role of female stereotypes agreed by the media in a wide range of characters and environments, Cindy Sherman photographs alone in her studio, acting as artistic director, photographer, make-up artist, hairdresser and interpreter of the role to play. The practice of portraiture that began decades ago is responsible for some of the most striking and influential images in contemporary art. For this ambitious presentation in Serralves, the museum's rooms will undergo a radical transformation, creating a theatrical setting to host the storyboard that the artist's photographs compose. The exhibition will also include an unprecedented work, specially designed for the Serralves Museum: an extensive photographic mural, which will give the exhibition an additional uniqueness.
2. Exhibition TYPE + DRAFTS + IDEAS Vacancy — Art and Knowledge Space until 26 NOV 2022
Krot & Krass are Björn Loki and Elsa Jónsdóttir. The Icelandic duo became known for their experimental text-based work exploring language: typography, words, and allusions. They reflect on reading in a broader sense and analyze the ability to share complex ideas and experiences through layered, standardized and marked visual codes on multiple surfaces. The TYPE + DRAFTS + IDEAS exhibition is an introduction to the practice of Krot & Krass. Conceived as an installation, it presents various experiences of type, based on his research into Iceland's graphic history-from large murals to prints. His main research topic has been Höfdaletur, the only original Icelandic typeface, which dates back to the 16th century and was traditionally used for wood carvings. Höfdaletur can be quite indecipherable, and its use and development has been mystified. Höfdaletur was broadcast within the community; for the most part, it changed in the hands of each artist. At a certain point, this development stopped. Throughout their careers, the artists continued the development of Höfdaletur-as well as other Icelandic types such as Munkaletur, Fléttuletur, or Galdraletur, activating them through contemporary designs, and expanding their forms while honoring their history. and ancestry. TYPE + DRAFTS + IDEAS will also be a point of expansion for the island through interventions in public space: large-scale murals. During their two-month artistic residency, Krot & Krass will develop an investigation, accumulating new impressions and discoveries, which will be presented in the vacancy on December 3rd.
3. Sarah Maldoror: Tricontinental Cinema at Municipal Galleries — Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria until 27 NOV 2022
Filmmaker Sarah Maldoror's work is associated with the liberation struggles of various nations on the African continent in the 1960s and 1970s, which constitute the theme and background of many of her films. Born in Gers, in 1929, the filmmaker emerged on the Parisian cultural scene in the mid-1950s, already using the adopted name of
Maldoror in allusion to the malevolent hero of the Cantos de Maldoror
(1868) of the Count of Lautréamont, rediscovered and celebrated
by surrealist poets and in which Aimé Césaire found "the iron man forged by capitalist society" (in Discurso sobre o Colonialismo, 1950).
4. PLAYING FIELD. Planting, cutting and raising Os Espacialistas — NAVE Gallery until 25 NOV 2022
For Os Espacialistas, architecture is a game and an agricultural activity. In this exhibition, in a state of siege, they present as a starting point a set of works of a playful and chance nature, resulting from various immaterial collections that they cultivated over time in the vicinity of the body and the space where they walked. A set of works capable of all kinds of poetic connections, reflecting architecture as a playing field, activity and gesture, endowed with real and imaginary affections and encounters. They are fragments of everyday life, at home, at school and at work, resulting from the constant desire to play with the gestures of planting, cutting and lifting bodies, spaces and objects, getting better and better. Comparative games of difference and repetition, eternal returns that change meaning and intensity according to the scale and position of the works in civil construction. In this poetics of play, architecture is the activity that anticipates human gestures, it is thought and affection on the promenade. And a sum of errors.
5. Visionárias-Architecture Triennale — Culturgest Lisboa
As part of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Culturgest presents the exhibition Visionárias, curated by Anastassia Smirnova with the SVESMI studio.
What are the visions of people in architecture, arts, design and science who aspire to systematically change the world? This exhibition explores creation processes and authorship
Visionaries who propose an alternative order and whose projects, more than mere physical and spatial structures, are ambitious and controversial prescriptions for planetary strategies. In many different guises, from bedroom scale to city models, these radical prototypes are open to being productively interpreted, not just replicated, by future generations.
In this group exhibition, the works presented are by Roger Anger & Anupama Kundoo, Aristide Antonas, bplus.xyz, Galina Balashova, Rohan Chavan, Dom Hans Van Der Laan & Caroline Voet, Ensamble Studio, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, MVRDV, Bruno Munari, Andrés Jaque/ Office For Political Innovation, Organization For Permanent Modernity, Selgascano, SVESMI, Studio SpaceStation, ABT Engineers, OBSCURA, Ultimate Compost Club, The Tokyo Toilet Project and Tomoaki Uno.
In the words of the curatorial team: "The exhibition focuses on visions realized and achievable by people in architecture, arts, design and science, who aspire to systematically change the world. Among these people with a vision, we find those who try to impose an alternative order of things and design not just physical structures or objects, but ambitious and sometimes controversial prescriptions for future actions. New models and prototypes should not just be replicas, but productive interpretations of the current debate about the planetary strategies they present responses to the challenge of practice in the era of the next grand narrative How can radical visions.
