Entre as Palavras e os Silêncios – Obras da Coleção Norlinda e José Lima [Between words and silences – Works in the Norlinda and José Lima Collection]
18 march 2022 — 15 january 2023
Curator: Luísa Soares de Oliveira
Between paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures and installations, created by some of the most recognized contemporary artists, Portuguese and foreign, this exhibition highlights the diversity of the Norlinda and José Lima Collection in stylistic, temporal and geographical terms. The selected works contextualize the dualism between speech and silence in contemporary art. According to curator Luísa Soares Oliveira, “between the works that appeal to narrative and those that seem to require silence, each of us will build a personal journey, knowing in advance that it also includes the memories and experiences that we bring with us. The exhibition invites the public to establish for themselves the discourses, silences and connections that emerge when faced with the works, providing them with their tools for understanding artistic expression, and it is the exercise of this freedom that this exhibition aims to respond to.”
The Norlinda and José Lima Collection is one of the largest private art collections in Portugal. It includes around one thousand two hundred artworks by two hundred and fifty Portuguese artists and two hundred and thirty international artists. It began in 1980 and covers a period of almost one hundred years between 1926 and 2020, with a greater concentration on artistic production from the last forty years. The collection, in storage at the Municipality of S. João da Madeira since 2008, is accessible to the public through a regular program of exhibitions at the Centro de Arte Oliva.
Artists Álvaro Lapa, Ana Hatherly, Ana Jotta, Ana Luísa Ribeiro, Ana Vieira, André Cepeda, Andres Serrano, Andy Warhol, Ângela Ferreira, Ângelo de Sousa, Anish Kapoor, António Dacosta, António Olaio, António Palolo, Arlindo Silva, Árpád Szenes, Bernard Rancillac, Carlos Correia, Cindy Sherman, Cristina Iglesias, Damien Hirst, Daniel Melim, Diogo Pimentão, Domingos Pinho, Eduardo Arroyo, Eduardo Batarda, Eduardo Chillida, Erró (Guðmundur Guðmundsson), Fátima Mendonça, Fernando Calhau, Fernando Lanhas, Francisco Tropa, Franz West, Gaëtan, Gonçalo Pena, Graça Morais, Helena Almeida, Henri Michaux, Jacques Monory, João Galrão, João Hogan, João Jacinto, João Louro, João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva, João Onofre, João Pedro Vale + Nuno Alexandre Ferreira, João Vieira, Joaquim Bravo, Joaquim Rodrigo, Jorge Queiroz, José de Guimarães, José Loureiro, José Pedro Croft, Júlia Ventura, Julião Sarmento, Júlio Pomar, Leda Catunda, Lourdes Castro, Luisa Correia Pereira, Maria Capelo, Maria Condado, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Mariana Gomes, Mário Cesariny, Mauro Cerqueira, Michael Biberstein, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Musa Paradisíaca, Nan Goldin, Nikias Skapinakis, Noronha da Costa, Nuno Siqueira, Paula Rego, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Pedro Calapez, Pires Vieira, Robert Combas, Robert Rauschenberg, Rui Chafes, Sandra Baía, Sara Bichão, Sérgio Fernandes, Sol Lewitt, Susanne S. D. Themlitz, Tiago Baptista, Valerio Adami, Victor Vasarely.
Luísa Soares de Oliveira Graduated from the Université de Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne (1983) and PhD from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (2012), she is an Adjunct Professor at the Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha since 2001, where she has taught various subjects related to the history of art and artistic theory. She has also been an art critic and curator of exhibitions since 1990. These include the Landart and Artemar cycles, in collaboration with the D. Luís I Foundation. She held several conferences on contemporary art and published a monograph on Jorge Vieira (editorial Caminho, 2008) and, with Ruth Rosengarten, another about Ana Vidigal (Assírio & Alvim, 2003).
Visit to the exhibition by curator Luísa Soares de Oliveira
Exhibition views © Joana Garrido
