Until January 16th 2011 – Centro de Arte Moderna – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
THE EXHIBITION offers the comparison between works from the beginning of the 20th and 21st centuries taking into account problems which debate the context and nature of the Res Publica and of the republic’s social heritage in the current globalized work.

With a national blueprint, the exhibition also includes works from foreign artists underlining or even enhancing aspects of the developed approach.
Public causes, their emergence and community strength are necessarily present in the artistic act, from the more private to the utterly political or simply collective one.
In the beginning of the 20th century in Portugal, the Res Publica is reviewed taking into account ideals and critical perspectives wishing for the renewal, but the facts portray an estranged reality of it.
In the beginning of the 21st century the Res Publica is the subject and the object of not only social but civilisation’s lack of guidance.
The exhibition aims to map out these realities, exhibiting works from those two moments, a century apart, and yet united by their theme.

ARTISTS

Adriano de SOUSA LOPES         Alves CARDOSO
Ana MATA                                     Ana TELHADO
André CARRILHO                        André ROMÃO
Ângela FERREIRA                       António Jorge GONÇALVES
António Júlio DUARTE                 António MARQUES
Armanda DUARTE                       Arnaldo GARCÊS

Bruce NAUMAN                           Bruno PACHECO
Carlos CORREIA                          Carlos REIS COLUMBANO
Cristiano CRUZ                            Cristina LUCAS
Cristina SAMPAIO                       Daniel BARROCA
Dórdio GOMES                             Eduardo VIANA
Eurico LINO DO VALE                 Eva BENSASSON
Francisco VIDAL                          Gabriel OROZCO
Gil Heitor CORTESÃO                  Guillermo KUITCA
Inês GONÇALVES                        Joana VASCONCELOS
João FAZENDA                             João Pedro VALE

Jorge PINHEIRO                          Joshua BENOLIEL
José ALVES DA CUNHA              José Carlos TEIXEIRA
José de BRITO                          José Francisco de Sousa FILHO
José Luís NETO                            José MALHOA
Laurent GRASSO                          Leal da CÂMARA
Luísa FERREIRA                           Manuel BOTELHO
M. G. BORDALO PINHEIRO      Manuel SANTOS MAIA
Maria LUSITANO MARÍN          Martinho COSTA
Nelson d’AIRES                            Nikias SKAPINAKIS
Nuno MAYA                                  Pamela GOLDEN
Paula REGO                                   Paulo CATRICA
Pedro GOMES                               Pierre GONNORD
Rafael BORDALO PINHEIRO     Rodrigo OLIVEIRA
Rui MOREIRA                               Sílvia MOREIRA
Susan PHILIPSZ                           Susana GAUDÊNCIO
Taryn SIMON                                Vasco ARAÚJO
XANA

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