Wall to the People
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves

The Serralves Samsung and challenged the artist João Paulo Feliciano to create an art project could involve the public in an interactive action through the use of technological resources, smartphones, tablets and technology of "augmented reality". The result is an installation that focuses on various visual expressions and spontaneous language and popular that usually can be found on the walls of public space. Based on a collection made ​​by the artist communicative expressions in public spaces, with spontaneous nature, naive, subversive, was made a selection of entries will be "implemented" through "augmented reality" to the walls of the House of Serralves. A recontextualization that, although virtual, gives a new character to interventions Graphics: subversion on the one hand, but not without a sense of humor and playfulness. The inscriptions are not visible from the outset. The invitation to the public is that we will explore and discover each of the submissions to go through the house, inside and out, pointing their handsets to the walls.
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GPS: 41.159697, -8.6600393
Address: Rua de D. João de Castro, 210, 4150-417 Porto
Tel.: +351 226156500

HomePage: http://www.serralves.pt

Locus Solus
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves

“Locus Solus: Impressions of Raymond Roussel” is the first large scale exhibition ever dedicated to the influence of the writer (Paris, 1877 – Palermo, 1933) upon numerous creators, not only in the field of literature, but in the visual arts as well, from the twentieth century until today.
Co-produced by the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves Art and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), the exhibition features approximately three hundred pieces – including paintings, photographs, sculptures, readymades, installations and videos, aside from books, documents, magazines and original manuscripts – that recreate Roussel’s universe and allow for a reflection on his prodigious legacy, which inspired some of the avant-garde movements, notably surrealism.
Curators: Manuel J. Borja-Villel, João Fernandes, François Piron. With the collaboration of: Guy Schranen Co-produced by: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves
GUIDED TOURS 31 March, 3 pm, with João Fernandes (Exclusive for Amigos de Serralves) 02 May, 6.30 pm, with João Fernandes and François Piron (to confirm the presence of François Piron) 28 June, 6.30 pm, with João Fernandes

GPS: 41.159697, -8.660039
Address: Rua de D. João de Castro, 210, 4150-417 Porto
Tel.: +351 226156500

HomePage: http://www.serralves.pt

Artur Barrio
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves

Artur Barrio (Porto, 1945) returns to the Museum of Contemporary Art Serralves with the exhibition "... navigation / ramblings ... among reefs and shoals ...", which opens the next day April 13, 2012.
The work of Barrio surprised by how the artist builds ephemeral situations where the experience of life and art intersect in the subversion of the place of presentation of the artwork and the challenge to the status of the viewer. This view is brought to abandon their passivity and discover and interpret each project of the artist as a physical and conceptual experience that will expand your awareness and knowledge of the world. In many projects Barrio, perishable organic materials such as bread, fish, meat, wine, water and coffee are combined with text, drawings and photographs by proposing new experiments sensitive and the knowable. The place, time and the discourse of art are often the subject of criticism in the work of the artist, when detached from human experience of the world in a unique way that combines the simplicity of the elements and complexity of ideas.
The artist has developed a very personal way of documenting their actions and situations through records such as text, photography, artist book, film or video. This very special relationship between the registry and the situation that causes has been recognized in many international exhibitions where his work has been presented. Being one of the protagonists in an artistic context that, in Brazil, contributed decisively to a critique of modernism and a redefinition of the artwork, the piece de Barrio has been published internationally since the famous exhibition "Information", presented at the MoMA 1970, to its recent participation in the Documenta XI in Kassel in 2002, the 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010) or the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), where he represented Brazil. The Ministry of Culture of Spain awarded him in 2011 Velazquez Prize, for his "radical poetics", in which there is "the appearance of an unexpected beauty."
The return of Artur Barrio to Serralves is also a return to the presentation of their work in Porto, where he was born on February 1, 1945. Between Portugal and Brazil, between Europe and South America, life and work of Artur Barrio also combine the wandering, traveling, the ocean and the constant rediscovery of self and others, who is often seen as Portuguese in Brazil or Brazil as in Portugal. The Serralves Museum has, since the exhibition "Regist (R) the" held in 2000 until today, continued to work with the artist, from the project poured cold water on a voyage of navigation between Rio de Janeiro and Porto until this next exhibition "... navigation / disclosures ... among reefs and shoals ...". Artur Barrio will now "make her" the central room of the Museum of Serralves, reinventing it with a new project specifically designed for this space, the artist will transform over several weeks, before and after its opening.
(automatic translation)
GPS: 41.159697, -8.6600393
Address: Rua de D. João de Castro, 210, 4150-417 Porto
Tel.: +351 226156500

HomePage: http://www.serralves.pt

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves

This is the first exhibition in Portugal by the French artist Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc (Cayenne, French Guiana, 1977). Particularly interested in the liberation movements of former Portuguese colonies - Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, in particular - and the analysis of image production, from illustrations for educational textbooks, photo reports and propaganda films, which translated in the years 1960-70 ideas of revolution and militancy, Abonnenc this exhibition presents a series of new works - especially for a medium-length film shot in Porto, and starring Bia Gomes, the lead actress of the most famous films of the Guinean filmmaker Flora Gomes - thought specifically to the halls of the Museum of Serralves. Produced during his stay of three months in this city, the projects start their research in various archives and museums Portuguese (the CIDAC - Center for Information and Documentation Amilcar Cabral, Mário Soares Foundation, through the National Museum of Ethnology) that allowed for example, reconsider the scope of the contribution of Amilcar Cabral for a liberated Africa, or review the work of filmmaker symbol of truth and militant cinema theaters Sarah Maldoror.
(automatic translation)
GPS: 41.159697, -8.6600393
Address: Rua de D. João de Castro, 210, 4150-417 Porto
Tel.: +351 226156500

HomePage: http://www.serralves.pt

Ricardo Valentim
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves

Richard Valentine (Loulé, 1978) is a Portuguese artist living and working in New York for eight years. This exhibition will be the first opportunity for the Portuguese public to confront all the graphics - posters, leaflets, room - produced by the artist in recent years, and that Valentine considers key part of several plays, including film screenings and installations, however presented in international exhibitions (from Voices 7, 2007-08, the International Meeting in Medellin, Colombia, in 2010). The Growth and Culture exhibition also presents two novel projects, designed for the halls of the Museum of Serralves and your audience: an installation entitled Contents of the Lecture "Models of Democracy", in which the artist uses obsolete overhead to confront us with a "classroom" very particular, and the film in two parts Inkblot Perception and Personality, which part of the story of a psychological test established in the early 1960s in the U.S. and whose effectiveness have been questioned, it soon was completely out of proportion efforts, time and money that originated: the Holtzman Inkblot Technique, patented by Wayne H. Holtzman in 1961, after seven years of expensive research, was released when the scientific community has not cared for personality tests.
Richard Valentine, who has always explored the rationale and protocols of transmission of knowledge (lectures, workshops, conferences, educational films), rethinks on Growth and Culture - notice that besides the title of this exhibition is the name of a play presented in the Auditorium Serralves and replicates the protocols of the conference - connection, much discussed in recent times, among contemporary art museums dedicated to the presentation and topics such as research and education.
(automatic translation)
GPS: 41.159697, -8.6600393
Address: Rua de D. João de Castro, 210, 4150-417 Porto
Tel.: +351 226156500

HomePage: http://www.serralves.pt

Katia e Marielle Labèque
Casa da Música

The Labèque sisters are, without doubt, the most famous piano duo of all time and have one of the most acclaimed discographies on the international market. Many of their interpretations are essential reference works in the repertoire for two pianos, in particular the compositions by Ravel and Debussy which they present in their Casa da Música début performance. From the exotic atmosphere evoked by the Perrault fairy tales in Ma mère l'oye to the contrasting and mysterious ambiance of a moonlit night, and the wild "fiesta" of Ravel's Rapsodie espagnole, this is a programme that should not be missed.

GPS: 41.158592, -8.63038
Address: Avenida da Boavista, 604, 4149-071 Porto
Tel.: +351 220120220

HomePage: http://www.casadamusica.com

Pathetic Symphony
Casa da Música

When he wrote his final symphony, Tchaikovsky stated that he had based it on a dramatic story that he would not reveal. It would be up to the public to guess what it was. The symphony only became a success after the composer's death. Nowadays various theories persist suggesting that it was a portrait of the composer's life, ending with an Adagio that resembles a requiem for an approaching death. With beautiful and poignant melodies written as only Tchaikovsky knew how, the Symphony Pathétique remains a favourite with audiences.

GPS: 41.158592, -8.63038
Address: Avenida da Boavista, 604, 4149-071 Porto
Tel.: +351 220120220

HomePage: http://www.casadamusica.com

Maria Gadú
Coliseu do Porto

With only 25 years old, Maria Gadu is one of the most talented artists in the new generation of singer / songwriters in Brazil. Star in a permanent rise, now back to Portugal, after a memorable passage at the Atlantic Pavilion and Rosa Mota Pavilion in the company of Caetano Veloso.
With open arms, the Coliseum of Oporto is now preparing to receive the Sao Paulo artist in his own name at a time when her second album of originals should be ready to leave.
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Entry: from 20€ to 55€
GPS: 41.1469055, -8.606236
Address: Rua de Passos Manuel, 137, 4000-385 Porto
Tel.: +351 223394940

HomePage: http://www.coliseudoporto.pt

Madredeus
Casa da Música

Madredeus have returned to the recording studios and the stage for a new phase in their extraordinary career.

GPS: 41.158592, -8.63038
Address: Avenida da Boavista, 604, 4149-071 Porto
Tel.: +351 220120220

HomePage: http://www.casadamusica.com

Wall to the People
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves

The Serralves Samsung and challenged the artist João Paulo Feliciano to create an art project could involve the public in an interactive action through the use of technological resources, smartphones, tablets and technology of "augmented reality". The result is an installation that focuses on various visual expressions and spontaneous language and popular that usually can be found on the walls of public space. Based on a collection made ​​by the artist communicative expressions in public spaces, with spontaneous nature, naive, subversive, was made a selection of entries will be "implemented" through "augmented reality" to the walls of the House of Serralves. A recontextualization that, although virtual, gives a new character to interventions Graphics: subversion on the one hand, but not without a sense of humor and playfulness. The inscriptions are not visible from the outset. The invitation to the public is that we will explore and discover each of the submissions to go through the house, inside and out, pointing their handsets to the walls.
(automatic translation)
GPS: 41.159697, -8.6600393
Address: Rua de D. João de Castro, 210, 4150-417 Porto
Tel.: +351 226156500

HomePage: http://www.serralves.pt

Locus Solus
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves

“Locus Solus: Impressions of Raymond Roussel” is the first large scale exhibition ever dedicated to the influence of the writer (Paris, 1877 – Palermo, 1933) upon numerous creators, not only in the field of literature, but in the visual arts as well, from the twentieth century until today.
Co-produced by the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves Art and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), the exhibition features approximately three hundred pieces – including paintings, photographs, sculptures, readymades, installations and videos, aside from books, documents, magazines and original manuscripts – that recreate Roussel’s universe and allow for a reflection on his prodigious legacy, which inspired some of the avant-garde movements, notably surrealism.
Curators: Manuel J. Borja-Villel, João Fernandes, François Piron. With the collaboration of: Guy Schranen Co-produced by: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves
GUIDED TOURS 31 March, 3 pm, with João Fernandes (Exclusive for Amigos de Serralves) 02 May, 6.30 pm, with João Fernandes and François Piron (to confirm the presence of François Piron) 28 June, 6.30 pm, with João Fernandes

GPS: 41.159697, -8.660039
Address: Rua de D. João de Castro, 210, 4150-417 Porto
Tel.: +351 226156500

HomePage: http://www.serralves.pt

Artur Barrio
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves

Artur Barrio (Porto, 1945) returns to the Museum of Contemporary Art Serralves with the exhibition "... navigation / ramblings ... among reefs and shoals ...", which opens the next day April 13, 2012.
The work of Barrio surprised by how the artist builds ephemeral situations where the experience of life and art intersect in the subversion of the place of presentation of the artwork and the challenge to the status of the viewer. This view is brought to abandon their passivity and discover and interpret each project of the artist as a physical and conceptual experience that will expand your awareness and knowledge of the world. In many projects Barrio, perishable organic materials such as bread, fish, meat, wine, water and coffee are combined with text, drawings and photographs by proposing new experiments sensitive and the knowable. The place, time and the discourse of art are often the subject of criticism in the work of the artist, when detached from human experience of the world in a unique way that combines the simplicity of the elements and complexity of ideas.
The artist has developed a very personal way of documenting their actions and situations through records such as text, photography, artist book, film or video. This very special relationship between the registry and the situation that causes has been recognized in many international exhibitions where his work has been presented. Being one of the protagonists in an artistic context that, in Brazil, contributed decisively to a critique of modernism and a redefinition of the artwork, the piece de Barrio has been published internationally since the famous exhibition "Information", presented at the MoMA 1970, to its recent participation in the Documenta XI in Kassel in 2002, the 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010) or the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), where he represented Brazil. The Ministry of Culture of Spain awarded him in 2011 Velazquez Prize, for his "radical poetics", in which there is "the appearance of an unexpected beauty."
The return of Artur Barrio to Serralves is also a return to the presentation of their work in Porto, where he was born on February 1, 1945. Between Portugal and Brazil, between Europe and South America, life and work of Artur Barrio also combine the wandering, traveling, the ocean and the constant rediscovery of self and others, who is often seen as Portuguese in Brazil or Brazil as in Portugal. The Serralves Museum has, since the exhibition "Regist (R) the" held in 2000 until today, continued to work with the artist, from the project poured cold water on a voyage of navigation between Rio de Janeiro and Porto until this next exhibition "... navigation / disclosures ... among reefs and shoals ...". Artur Barrio will now "make her" the central room of the Museum of Serralves, reinventing it with a new project specifically designed for this space, the artist will transform over several weeks, before and after its opening.
(automatic translation)
GPS: 41.159697, -8.6600393
Address: Rua de D. João de Castro, 210, 4150-417 Porto
Tel.: +351 226156500

HomePage: http://www.serralves.pt

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves

This is the first exhibition in Portugal by the French artist Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc (Cayenne, French Guiana, 1977). Particularly interested in the liberation movements of former Portuguese colonies - Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, in particular - and the analysis of image production, from illustrations for educational textbooks, photo reports and propaganda films, which translated in the years 1960-70 ideas of revolution and militancy, Abonnenc this exhibition presents a series of new works - especially for a medium-length film shot in Porto, and starring Bia Gomes, the lead actress of the most famous films of the Guinean filmmaker Flora Gomes - thought specifically to the halls of the Museum of Serralves. Produced during his stay of three months in this city, the projects start their research in various archives and museums Portuguese (the CIDAC - Center for Information and Documentation Amilcar Cabral, Mário Soares Foundation, through the National Museum of Ethnology) that allowed for example, reconsider the scope of the contribution of Amilcar Cabral for a liberated Africa, or review the work of filmmaker symbol of truth and militant cinema theaters Sarah Maldoror.
(automatic translation)
GPS: 41.159697, -8.6600393
Address: Rua de D. João de Castro, 210, 4150-417 Porto
Tel.: +351 226156500

HomePage: http://www.serralves.pt

Ricardo Valentim
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves

Richard Valentine (Loulé, 1978) is a Portuguese artist living and working in New York for eight years. This exhibition will be the first opportunity for the Portuguese public to confront all the graphics - posters, leaflets, room - produced by the artist in recent years, and that Valentine considers key part of several plays, including film screenings and installations, however presented in international exhibitions (from Voices 7, 2007-08, the International Meeting in Medellin, Colombia, in 2010). The Growth and Culture exhibition also presents two novel projects, designed for the halls of the Museum of Serralves and your audience: an installation entitled Contents of the Lecture "Models of Democracy", in which the artist uses obsolete overhead to confront us with a "classroom" very particular, and the film in two parts Inkblot Perception and Personality, which part of the story of a psychological test established in the early 1960s in the U.S. and whose effectiveness have been questioned, it soon was completely out of proportion efforts, time and money that originated: the Holtzman Inkblot Technique, patented by Wayne H. Holtzman in 1961, after seven years of expensive research, was released when the scientific community has not cared for personality tests.
Richard Valentine, who has always explored the rationale and protocols of transmission of knowledge (lectures, workshops, conferences, educational films), rethinks on Growth and Culture - notice that besides the title of this exhibition is the name of a play presented in the Auditorium Serralves and replicates the protocols of the conference - connection, much discussed in recent times, among contemporary art museums dedicated to the presentation and topics such as research and education.
(automatic translation)
GPS: 41.159697, -8.6600393
Address: Rua de D. João de Castro, 210, 4150-417 Porto
Tel.: +351 226156500

HomePage: http://www.serralves.pt

Orquestra Gulbenkian
Casa da Música

The Gulbenkian Orchestra returns to the Casa da Música with an irresistible programme arranged by its Principle Conductor, Lawrence Foster. After the seductive rhythms of the waltz and the intoxicating sounds of Spanish music, reproduced by Maurice Ravel, the most talented orchestral composer of the 20th. century, the concert ends with the majestic New World Symphony. Composed by Dvóøak in the United States, the symphony represents a landmark in the affirmation of national languages and radically changed the destiny of North American music itself. The slow movement made it famous worldwide and it still remains a favourite with audiences today.
Entry: 17 EUR
GPS: 41.158592, -8.63038
Address: Avenida da Boavista, 604, 4149-071 Porto
Tel.: +351 220120220

HomePage: http://www.casadamusica.com

Wall to the People
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves

The Serralves Samsung and challenged the artist João Paulo Feliciano to create an art project could involve the public in an interactive action through the use of technological resources, smartphones, tablets and technology of "augmented reality". The result is an installation that focuses on various visual expressions and spontaneous language and popular that usually can be found on the walls of public space. Based on a collection made ​​by the artist communicative expressions in public spaces, with spontaneous nature, naive, subversive, was made a selection of entries will be "implemented" through "augmented reality" to the walls of the House of Serralves. A recontextualization that, although virtual, gives a new character to interventions Graphics: subversion on the one hand, but not without a sense of humor and playfulness. The inscriptions are not visible from the outset. The invitation to the public is that we will explore and discover each of the submissions to go through the house, inside and out, pointing their handsets to the walls.
(automatic translation)
GPS: 41.159697, -8.6600393
Address: Rua de D. João de Castro, 210, 4150-417 Porto
Tel.: +351 226156500

HomePage: http://www.serralves.pt

Great Classics
Casa da Música

The Jupiter Symphony is the prime example of perfection and balance in Mozart's symphony works, combining the melodic inspiration of his operas with the contrapuntal grandeur of the Baroque in a radiant, luminous atmosphere.
GPS: 41.158592, -8.630383
Address: Avenida da Boavista, 604, 4149-071 Porto
Tel.: +351 220120220

HomePage: http://www.casadamusica.com

Instant Compositions
Casa da Música

Wolfgang Mitterer is one of those rare musicians who can equally well be found at the keys of a pipe organ playing Bach in a cathedral somewhere in the world or in a nightclub taking part in an improvised jam session with leading jazz artists. His works also reflect this existence, and may be performed in an opera house, a concert hall a mine or an open-air quarry. His language is heir to the entire past tradition of western music and his technical mastery is such that we never know where his music will lead us. Composições instantâneas provides a rare opportunity to observe the creative impetus of an artist who is unrivalled on the contemporary music scene.
GPS: 41.158592, -8.630383
Address: Avenida da Boavista, 604, 4149-071 Porto
Tel.: +351 220120220

HomePage: http://www.casadamusica.com

Concert of São João
Casa da Música

What if Paris suddenly began celebrating São João? The Orquestra sinfónica do porto casa da música once again celebrates the longest night of the year with short pieces that will delight the public. Many of the themes are very well-known and the atmosphere ranges from the mysterious to the passionate, and from the heroic to the mischievous, including moments of pure entertainment, to welcome the summer and celebrate São João.
GPS: 41.158592, -8.630383
Address: Avenida da Boavista, 604, 4149-071 Porto
Tel.: +351 220120220

HomePage: http://www.casadamusica.com

O Veado Florido de Sérgio Azevedo
Coliseu do Porto

Azevedo is a Portuguese composer of classical and contemporary music, one of the most important composers of his generation in Portugal. In addition to a vast amount of concert works in all genres, the concert opera, past and chamber works for soloists, Sergio Azevedo often works with schools and students of music, composing a large amount of didactic pieces from works for solo piano, small ensembles and orchestras for school children to pieces for choirs. The Deer Florido is a musical tale for children over Antonio Torrado tale for narrator and orchestra.
Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra
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Entry: from 5€ to 10€
GPS: 41.1469055, -8.606236
Address: Rua de Passos Manuel, 137, 4000-385 Porto
Tel.: +351 223394940

HomePage: http://www.coliseudoporto.pt

Noite de São João 2012
Downtown

In the Churches and Chapels, and particularly at this time, visitors can tour the altars dedicated to the saint and admire the artistic representations conjured up by renowned national and international artists.

In the streets, the ‘cascatas’ (cascades), unique in Portugal, call the attention of passers-by to a tradition that involves the representation, in miniature, of scenes from around the city and customs from times gone by. They include houses, paths traced out in sand and moss, clay figurines, painted in lively colours, of people going about their daily business, working at their professions, many of which have now disappeared, and animals that, these days, are rarely seen inside the city. The most famous of these is the cascata das Fontaínhas.

The festival programme has space for competitive activities too, such as the now traditional regatta of ‘rabelo’ (port wine) boats which runs over a 1.5 km course from Foz do Douro to the Luís I Bridge. There are also activities along the riverside and more competition in the form of the S. João race and the contests for best cascata, shop window, ‘rusga’ (parade) and popular poetry celebrating S. João.

The night of the 23 June is the most jubilant of the year. Crowds of people come out onto the streets to celebrate this patron saint of amours. In the ‘Baixa’ area the streets ring out with the cries of the sellers of the traditional basil plants, carnations, lemon verbena, “leeks” and the modern hammers that are used to dole out friendly whacks on the head to passers-by and which spread like wildfire throughout the city from early on in the day, acting as harbingers of the fun that is coming later on. The S. João bonfires are set alight in the streets, by groups of neighbours and friends who prove their bravery by jumping right over the top of them. At midnight on the 23 June, there are fireworks, or São João’s fire, on the river. The banks of the Douro fill up with thousands of spectators who have come to watch the biggest show of the year, bursting with light, colour and emotion.
The traditional S. João balloons, made out of paper and brightly coloured, are carefully launched into the sky, providing an unparalleled spectacle of hundreds of ascending points of light.

On the Feast night or on the day of S. João, people eat ‘caldo verde’ soup with cornbread, mutton, lamb or grilled sardines, pepper salad and, for dessert, egg and milk custard or S. João cake, deservedly washed down by a delicious Port Wine.
The night of S. João comes to a close at Foz do Douro, with people rowing out towards the sea until the dawn breaks.
Come and have fun with us. Porto awaits you!
At 24:00 major fireworks at the Douro river (west of D. Luis I bridge), at 00:30 also at Jardim do Passeio Alegre (Foz) and at 1:15 at Largo Calém (Riverside of Lordelo do Ouro).

When: 20:00 - 8:00
Where: Downtown and all over the city
Entry: Free

HomePage: http://www.visitporto.travel

Locus Solus
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves

“Locus Solus: Impressions of Raymond Roussel” is the first large scale exhibition ever dedicated to the influence of the writer (Paris, 1877 – Palermo, 1933) upon numerous creators, not only in the field of literature, but in the visual arts as well, from the twentieth century until today.
Co-produced by the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves Art and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), the exhibition features approximately three hundred pieces – including paintings, photographs, sculptures, readymades, installations and videos, aside from books, documents, magazines and original manuscripts – that recreate Roussel’s universe and allow for a reflection on his prodigious legacy, which inspired some of the avant-garde movements, notably surrealism.
Curators: Manuel J. Borja-Villel, João Fernandes, François Piron. With the collaboration of: Guy Schranen Co-produced by: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves
GUIDED TOURS 31 March, 3 pm, with João Fernandes (Exclusive for Amigos de Serralves) 02 May, 6.30 pm, with João Fernandes and François Piron (to confirm the presence of François Piron) 28 June, 6.30 pm, with João Fernandes

GPS: 41.159697, -8.660039
Address: Rua de D. João de Castro, 210, 4150-417 Porto
Tel.: +351 226156500

HomePage: http://www.serralves.pt

Artur Barrio
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves

Artur Barrio (Porto, 1945) returns to the Museum of Contemporary Art Serralves with the exhibition "... navigation / ramblings ... among reefs and shoals ...", which opens the next day April 13, 2012.
The work of Barrio surprised by how the artist builds ephemeral situations where the experience of life and art intersect in the subversion of the place of presentation of the artwork and the challenge to the status of the viewer. This view is brought to abandon their passivity and discover and interpret each project of the artist as a physical and conceptual experience that will expand your awareness and knowledge of the world. In many projects Barrio, perishable organic materials such as bread, fish, meat, wine, water and coffee are combined with text, drawings and photographs by proposing new experiments sensitive and the knowable. The place, time and the discourse of art are often the subject of criticism in the work of the artist, when detached from human experience of the world in a unique way that combines the simplicity of the elements and complexity of ideas.
The artist has developed a very personal way of documenting their actions and situations through records such as text, photography, artist book, film or video. This very special relationship between the registry and the situation that causes has been recognized in many international exhibitions where his work has been presented. Being one of the protagonists in an artistic context that, in Brazil, contributed decisively to a critique of modernism and a redefinition of the artwork, the piece de Barrio has been published internationally since the famous exhibition "Information", presented at the MoMA 1970, to its recent participation in the Documenta XI in Kassel in 2002, the 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010) or the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), where he represented Brazil. The Ministry of Culture of Spain awarded him in 2011 Velazquez Prize, for his "radical poetics", in which there is "the appearance of an unexpected beauty."
The return of Artur Barrio to Serralves is also a return to the presentation of their work in Porto, where he was born on February 1, 1945. Between Portugal and Brazil, between Europe and South America, life and work of Artur Barrio also combine the wandering, traveling, the ocean and the constant rediscovery of self and others, who is often seen as Portuguese in Brazil or Brazil as in Portugal. The Serralves Museum has, since the exhibition "Regist (R) the" held in 2000 until today, continued to work with the artist, from the project poured cold water on a voyage of navigation between Rio de Janeiro and Porto until this next exhibition "... navigation / disclosures ... among reefs and shoals ...". Artur Barrio will now "make her" the central room of the Museum of Serralves, reinventing it with a new project specifically designed for this space, the artist will transform over several weeks, before and after its opening.
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GPS: 41.159697, -8.6600393
Address: Rua de D. João de Castro, 210, 4150-417 Porto
Tel.: +351 226156500

HomePage: http://www.serralves.pt

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves

This is the first exhibition in Portugal by the French artist Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc (Cayenne, French Guiana, 1977). Particularly interested in the liberation movements of former Portuguese colonies - Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, in particular - and the analysis of image production, from illustrations for educational textbooks, photo reports and propaganda films, which translated in the years 1960-70 ideas of revolution and militancy, Abonnenc this exhibition presents a series of new works - especially for a medium-length film shot in Porto, and starring Bia Gomes, the lead actress of the most famous films of the Guinean filmmaker Flora Gomes - thought specifically to the halls of the Museum of Serralves. Produced during his stay of three months in this city, the projects start their research in various archives and museums Portuguese (the CIDAC - Center for Information and Documentation Amilcar Cabral, Mário Soares Foundation, through the National Museum of Ethnology) that allowed for example, reconsider the scope of the contribution of Amilcar Cabral for a liberated Africa, or review the work of filmmaker symbol of truth and militant cinema theaters Sarah Maldoror.
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GPS: 41.159697, -8.6600393
Address: Rua de D. João de Castro, 210, 4150-417 Porto
Tel.: +351 226156500

HomePage: http://www.serralves.pt

Ricardo Valentim
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves

Richard Valentine (Loulé, 1978) is a Portuguese artist living and working in New York for eight years. This exhibition will be the first opportunity for the Portuguese public to confront all the graphics - posters, leaflets, room - produced by the artist in recent years, and that Valentine considers key part of several plays, including film screenings and installations, however presented in international exhibitions (from Voices 7, 2007-08, the International Meeting in Medellin, Colombia, in 2010). The Growth and Culture exhibition also presents two novel projects, designed for the halls of the Museum of Serralves and your audience: an installation entitled Contents of the Lecture "Models of Democracy", in which the artist uses obsolete overhead to confront us with a "classroom" very particular, and the film in two parts Inkblot Perception and Personality, which part of the story of a psychological test established in the early 1960s in the U.S. and whose effectiveness have been questioned, it soon was completely out of proportion efforts, time and money that originated: the Holtzman Inkblot Technique, patented by Wayne H. Holtzman in 1961, after seven years of expensive research, was released when the scientific community has not cared for personality tests.
Richard Valentine, who has always explored the rationale and protocols of transmission of knowledge (lectures, workshops, conferences, educational films), rethinks on Growth and Culture - notice that besides the title of this exhibition is the name of a play presented in the Auditorium Serralves and replicates the protocols of the conference - connection, much discussed in recent times, among contemporary art museums dedicated to the presentation and topics such as research and education.
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GPS: 41.159697, -8.6600393
Address: Rua de D. João de Castro, 210, 4150-417 Porto
Tel.: +351 226156500

HomePage: http://www.serralves.pt

Locus Solus
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves

“Locus Solus: Impressions of Raymond Roussel” is the first large scale exhibition ever dedicated to the influence of the writer (Paris, 1877 – Palermo, 1933) upon numerous creators, not only in the field of literature, but in the visual arts as well, from the twentieth century until today.
Co-produced by the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves Art and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), the exhibition features approximately three hundred pieces – including paintings, photographs, sculptures, readymades, installations and videos, aside from books, documents, magazines and original manuscripts – that recreate Roussel’s universe and allow for a reflection on his prodigious legacy, which inspired some of the avant-garde movements, notably surrealism.
Curators: Manuel J. Borja-Villel, João Fernandes, François Piron. With the collaboration of: Guy Schranen Co-produced by: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves
GUIDED TOURS 31 March, 3 pm, with João Fernandes (Exclusive for Amigos de Serralves) 02 May, 6.30 pm, with João Fernandes and François Piron (to confirm the presence of François Piron) 28 June, 6.30 pm, with João Fernandes

GPS: 41.159697, -8.660039
Address: Rua de D. João de Castro, 210, 4150-417 Porto
Tel.: +351 226156500

HomePage: http://www.serralves.pt

Artur Barrio
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves

Artur Barrio (Porto, 1945) returns to the Museum of Contemporary Art Serralves with the exhibition "... navigation / ramblings ... among reefs and shoals ...", which opens the next day April 13, 2012.
The work of Barrio surprised by how the artist builds ephemeral situations where the experience of life and art intersect in the subversion of the place of presentation of the artwork and the challenge to the status of the viewer. This view is brought to abandon their passivity and discover and interpret each project of the artist as a physical and conceptual experience that will expand your awareness and knowledge of the world. In many projects Barrio, perishable organic materials such as bread, fish, meat, wine, water and coffee are combined with text, drawings and photographs by proposing new experiments sensitive and the knowable. The place, time and the discourse of art are often the subject of criticism in the work of the artist, when detached from human experience of the world in a unique way that combines the simplicity of the elements and complexity of ideas.
The artist has developed a very personal way of documenting their actions and situations through records such as text, photography, artist book, film or video. This very special relationship between the registry and the situation that causes has been recognized in many international exhibitions where his work has been presented. Being one of the protagonists in an artistic context that, in Brazil, contributed decisively to a critique of modernism and a redefinition of the artwork, the piece de Barrio has been published internationally since the famous exhibition "Information", presented at the MoMA 1970, to its recent participation in the Documenta XI in Kassel in 2002, the 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010) or the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), where he represented Brazil. The Ministry of Culture of Spain awarded him in 2011 Velazquez Prize, for his "radical poetics", in which there is "the appearance of an unexpected beauty."
The return of Artur Barrio to Serralves is also a return to the presentation of their work in Porto, where he was born on February 1, 1945. Between Portugal and Brazil, between Europe and South America, life and work of Artur Barrio also combine the wandering, traveling, the ocean and the constant rediscovery of self and others, who is often seen as Portuguese in Brazil or Brazil as in Portugal. The Serralves Museum has, since the exhibition "Regist (R) the" held in 2000 until today, continued to work with the artist, from the project poured cold water on a voyage of navigation between Rio de Janeiro and Porto until this next exhibition "... navigation / disclosures ... among reefs and shoals ...". Artur Barrio will now "make her" the central room of the Museum of Serralves, reinventing it with a new project specifically designed for this space, the artist will transform over several weeks, before and after its opening.
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GPS: 41.159697, -8.6600393
Address: Rua de D. João de Castro, 210, 4150-417 Porto
Tel.: +351 226156500

HomePage: http://www.serralves.pt

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves

This is the first exhibition in Portugal by the French artist Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc (Cayenne, French Guiana, 1977). Particularly interested in the liberation movements of former Portuguese colonies - Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, in particular - and the analysis of image production, from illustrations for educational textbooks, photo reports and propaganda films, which translated in the years 1960-70 ideas of revolution and militancy, Abonnenc this exhibition presents a series of new works - especially for a medium-length film shot in Porto, and starring Bia Gomes, the lead actress of the most famous films of the Guinean filmmaker Flora Gomes - thought specifically to the halls of the Museum of Serralves. Produced during his stay of three months in this city, the projects start their research in various archives and museums Portuguese (the CIDAC - Center for Information and Documentation Amilcar Cabral, Mário Soares Foundation, through the National Museum of Ethnology) that allowed for example, reconsider the scope of the contribution of Amilcar Cabral for a liberated Africa, or review the work of filmmaker symbol of truth and militant cinema theaters Sarah Maldoror.
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GPS: 41.159697, -8.6600393
Address: Rua de D. João de Castro, 210, 4150-417 Porto
Tel.: +351 226156500

HomePage: http://www.serralves.pt

Ricardo Valentim
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves

Richard Valentine (Loulé, 1978) is a Portuguese artist living and working in New York for eight years. This exhibition will be the first opportunity for the Portuguese public to confront all the graphics - posters, leaflets, room - produced by the artist in recent years, and that Valentine considers key part of several plays, including film screenings and installations, however presented in international exhibitions (from Voices 7, 2007-08, the International Meeting in Medellin, Colombia, in 2010). The Growth and Culture exhibition also presents two novel projects, designed for the halls of the Museum of Serralves and your audience: an installation entitled Contents of the Lecture "Models of Democracy", in which the artist uses obsolete overhead to confront us with a "classroom" very particular, and the film in two parts Inkblot Perception and Personality, which part of the story of a psychological test established in the early 1960s in the U.S. and whose effectiveness have been questioned, it soon was completely out of proportion efforts, time and money that originated: the Holtzman Inkblot Technique, patented by Wayne H. Holtzman in 1961, after seven years of expensive research, was released when the scientific community has not cared for personality tests.
Richard Valentine, who has always explored the rationale and protocols of transmission of knowledge (lectures, workshops, conferences, educational films), rethinks on Growth and Culture - notice that besides the title of this exhibition is the name of a play presented in the Auditorium Serralves and replicates the protocols of the conference - connection, much discussed in recent times, among contemporary art museums dedicated to the presentation and topics such as research and education.
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GPS: 41.159697, -8.6600393
Address: Rua de D. João de Castro, 210, 4150-417 Porto
Tel.: +351 226156500

HomePage: http://www.serralves.pt

Spirit of the Dance
Coliseu do Porto

The impressive "Spirit of the Dance" is one of the most success with Irish performances of all time, has been seen by more than 30 million viewers worldwide. May be held simultaneously more than 10 offices in the same night in different countries. There are four permanent shows in the United States. More than 30 dancers and a dedicated team working to achieve the best possible result of this production worldwide.
Winner of nine Global Awards awards including "Best Choreography" and "Best International Production", this fascinating spectacle reached a record sales in 15 countries.
In Irish this show is an explosion of energy! "Spirit of the Dance" is based on a spectacular blend of traditional cultures that evolves each year with the introduction of innovative choreography. The powerful Irish dancing, combined with the passionate Latino rhythms of tango, flamenco and salsa, produce a mixture of strength and passion that "lnternational Post" describes as "the best Irish dance show in the world."
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Entry: from 27€ to 48€
GPS: 41.1469055, -8.606236
Address: Rua de Passos Manuel, 137, 4000-385 Porto
Tel.: +351 223394940

HomePage: http://www.coliseudoporto.pt