É Proibido Proibir!
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Vista da exposição, © Susana Pomba
A minha recensão da exposição É Proibido Proibir do MUDE está desde hoje online no site Artecapital.
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When captions matter
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) (1887-1965) Still-Life of the Pavillon de L’Esprit Nouveau, 1924
This morning I visited the Art Deco, 1925 exhibition at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. This world-class, exquisite show would surely please Calouste Gulbenkian, the Armenian-born billionaire to which Portuguese science and culture (and myself, as a FCG/FLAD grant holder) owe so much. His famous motto, “only the best”, made the museum and foundation that bear his name two of the world’s most respected and sophisticated institutions.
Curated by Chantal Bizot and Dany Sautot and masterfully designed by Mariano Piçarra and Ricardo Viegas (graphics), the exhibition is a true arts décoratifs treasure trove. From carpets to glass, jewellery to books, it presents a wide range of (mostly applied) artworks that mirrored the prevailing message of 1925′s International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts: the triumph of the ensemble as an expression of industrial and artistic progress.
