“A Horizon of Proximities” is the next exhibition of Arquipélago – Contemporary Art Center
O Arquipélago – Contemporary Art Center opens its second exhibition, featuring the António Cachola Collection, on October 16th, 2015. “A Horizon of Proximities – A Topology from the António Cachola Collection” is curated by Sérgio Mah and will be on exhibit until February 28, 2016. After 11:00PM, the vernissage will continue with the DJs Mr. Wolf and Tape and the video directed by João Pedro Gomes and produced by Ventoencanado.
“The show is structured in a sequence of segments, which aim to explore the articulations between the different works and the architectonic and symbolic circumstances of the exhibition spaces within Arquipélago – Contemporary Art Center. In this sense, A Horizon of Proximities proposes an exhibition trajectory determined by various thematic zones: the questions around (re)construction and architecture, of the vernacular and of memory; the body and gestures, the problems concerning identity and relational dynamics; the notion of place, territory and landscape. All of these zones are thought of as reflective and experiential contexts destined to potentiate the points of approximation and of remission, of intersection and intuition between disparate objects”, explains the curator.
This is the largest exhibition (in terms of the sheer number of artists, the quantity of artworks, as well as the exhibition area) of the António Cachola Collection realized to date. Included is a significant portion of the artists which came to prevalence in the 1980s, up to the more recent generations, and more specifically those artists who were born following the Revolution of 1974. This allows the configuration of a widened spectrum of conceptual attitudes and frameworks, artistic methods and discursive and aesthetic inclinations, permitting an amplitude and diversity which in many ways can be identified with the heterogeneous and transversal character which distinguishes the current panorama of artistic practices in Portugal. Regarding the Collection, Sérgio Mah contextualizes it as such: “Beginning in the first half of the 1990s, the António Cachola Collection has come to constitute itself as the most ample, diversified and consistent private collection of contemporary art in Portugal, having been recognized as an essential repository for anyone interested in discerning the artistic tendencies and transformations which have occurred in Portugal since the 1980s. Symptomatically, this is a period that also marks the beginning of a new era – political, economic, institutional and cultural – of the recent history of our country.”
The exhibition includes works currently in long-term loans at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas and at Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, comprising a selection of up to 100 works from the following 38 artists: Alexandre Conefrey, Alexandre Estrela, André Guedes, Augusto Alves da Silva, Bruno Pacheco, Carla Filipe, Dalila Gonçalves, Daniel Barroca, Diogo Pimentão, Fernanda Fragateiro, Francisco Tropa, Igor Jesus, Inês Botelho, João Leonardo, João Louro, João Onofre, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, João Queiroz, João Tabarra, Jorge Molder, José Loureiro, José Pedro Croft, Julião Sarmento, Manuel Rosa, Miguel Ângelo Rocha, Nuno Sousa Vieira, Patrícia Garrido, Pedro Barateiro, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Pedro Calapez, Pedro Casqueiro, Rui Chafes, Rui Sanches, Rui Toscano, Rui Valério, Susanne Themlitz, Xana.