According to the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in a statement, the renovated building of the Center for Modern Art (CAM) - a project by architect Kengo Kuma, framed by the new garden designed by landscaper Vladimir Djurovic - will reopen its doors to the public with a project by the artist visual Leonor Antunes, the exhibition "Linha de Maré" and another dedicated to the artist Fernando Lemos (1926-2019).
The opening program, in September, will include the exhibition "Linha de Maré", which will present more than 90 works of different artistic types - most of which are inspired by the 25th of April 1974 - an exhibition by the visual artist, photographer and designer ' Fernando Lemos who will show the relationship between his work and Japan, as well as a three-day performing arts program.
Leonor Antunes' exhibition will be presented in the CAM's main gallery, "with an immersive installation that responds to the architectural specificity of the building, in a project entitled 'On the constant inequality of Leonor's days'", which aims to "question the invisibility of women in the canon of the history of modern art", such as, for example, the almost unknown work of Sadie Speight, a British architect and 'designer' who contributed to CAM's first architectural project, conceived in the 1980s.
The exhibition will also include works from the CAM collection by women artists, from the 1960s to the present, chosen by Leonor Antunes, "a presentation that begins a new way of thinking and exhibiting the collection, inviting artists to curate the works from its collection", indicated the foundation.
The exhibition by Portuguese-Brazilian artist Fernando Lemos will explore his relationship with Japan in the 1960s, when the artist received a scholarship from Gulbenkian to study Japanese calligraphy and learn photography techniques. His drawings and photographs will be presented, alongside pieces by other artists from the CAM collection and Japanese prints from the Gulbenkian Museum Collection.
Following the acquisition of two hectares of land to expand Gulbenkian's space to the south, the CAM renovation project creates an entrance area to the institution, changing access to the building, which now takes place through a new garden and of an entrance on Rua Marquês de Fronteira, indicated the Foundation.