07 July - 05 February 2011
Opening hour: 18h30
At the invitation of the Foundling Museum, an institution that
preserves the memory of the abandoned children given shelter at the
Foundling Hospital, Paula Rego produced a group of works between
2008 and 2010 that were exhibited for the first time at that museum
from February to April 2010. This exhibition set up a dialogue
between three contemporary artists, Paula Rego, Mat Collishaw and
Tracey Emin, offering their reflections on the rites of passage of
these children through this institution. The first presentation of
this exhibition in Portugal, at the Casa das Histórias, recovers
and completes that recent group of works produced by the Portuguese
artist.
Paula Rego seized upon this idea in order to construct a
three-dimensional object, a piece of furniture almost three metres
high and an exact replica of these Portuguese oratories, with the
same pair of shutters and an identical shape and volume. In it, she
developed, for the first time, an unexpected and intentional
relationship between the drawings to be found on the walls of the
cupboard and the sculptures set against this narrative
background.
This remarkable evolution of the artist, who transforms the most
recent models of her work into genuine sculptures, also
reconnects to the physical dimension of the playful objects of the
1970s (nymphs, princesses or the puss in boots…) and it serves her
absolute need to progress towards new solutions and pursue other
experimental paths.
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