O Desenho na Coleção Norlinda e José Lima (Uma Seleção) [Drawing in the Norlinda and José Lima Collection (A Selection)]
8 april — 7 may 2021
Curator: João Silvério
Production: Universidade de Aveiro
Within the scope of the programme O Desenho como Pensamento [Drawing as thought], the University of Aveiro now hosts the exhibition O Desenho na Coleção Norlinda e José Lima (Uma Seleção) at Hélène de Beauvoir Room – Library of the University of Aveiro Campus, curated by João Silvério.
The exhibition seeks to contextualize, according to different generations and topics, an attention to drawing made in different media and modes of inscription on the support. The show features twenty-two works by sixteen Portuguese and foreign authors that point to the transversal nature of the collection and to its international component spanning a period of approximately half a century.
João Silvério holds an MA in Curatorial Studies by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. He is associate curator of the contemporary art collection of PLMJ Foundation, and curator and tutor of the RAMA Art Residencies, Maceira, Portugal. He began is activity as an independent curator in 2003. In October 2007. He created the independent project EMPTY CUBE, which has featured work of various artists, designers and architects. He was the president of the Portuguese section of AICA – International Association of Art Critics from March 2013 to December 2015. He writes regularly for art catalogues, publications and websites, including www.emptycube.org.
Artists
Álvaro Lapa
Ângela Ferreira
Carla Filipe
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Eugeni Torrens
Fernando Calhau
Gaëtan
Hans Hartung
Helena Almeida
Joana Rosa
Joaquim Bravo
José Escada
Pedro Cabrita Reis
Pedro Calapez
Sol Lewitt
Susanne Themlitz
