PROLONGED EXPOSURE UP TO MAY 3rd

30 YEARS OF THE PORTUGUESE SCREEN PRINTING CENTER WITH SIMULTANEOUS EXHIBITION IN SIX MUSEUMS AND A MONASTERY 

The exhibition «The Reality of the Imaginary» which marks 30 years of the Portuguese Screen Printing Center, opens at 6:30 pm on March 5, Thursday, simultaneously in six national museums and in an emblematic monastery in the central region of the country, with a selection of his editions, in a total of around two hundred works by the same number of artists. 

The Museums of Aveiro and Guarda, Museu Francisco Tavares Proença Júnior of Castelo Branco, are associated with this celebration. Joséé Malhoa and Cerâmica in Caldas da Rainha,Joaquim Manso Museum in Nazaré and the Santa Clara-a-Velha Monastery in Coimbra, in an initiative by the Direção Regional Culture Center and the Portuguese Screen Printing Center (CPS).

The exhibition, curated by Maria João Fernandes (A.I.C.A., International Association of Art Critics) and directed ;artistic work byAlexandra Silvano, develops in different nuclei, thematically, the motifs and symbols of the great Day and Night Regimes of the Image, as they are addressed by the great French essayist and anthropologist Gilbert Durand.

"The formulation I chose aims to present what we could call the “reality of the imaginary”. The “Day” and “ Night” appear there as metaphors of the conscious and unconscious, carrying with their respective “Regimes” a vast and haunting procession of symbols, with their cultural, sociological or instinctual motivations ( in relation to primordial reflections), analyzed by Gilbert Durand. In this case, it is not a question of going into detail into the complex field of theory, but of equating the practice of works with the vast magma of where they emerge, highlighting general features capable of making us guess the key to symbolic knowledge.” (Maria João Fernandes)

The exhibition «The Reality of the Imaginary» which opens simultaneously in seven cultural spaces, you will have its official debut at the Aveiro Museum. Accompanying it, a catalog was published that reproduces all the works presented, inserted in the respective sections, with introductory texts from the Commission.  

A true delight for the senses and a way of celebrating and sharing art, which well represents the philosophy that the Portuguese Screen Printing Center has been developing for the last few years. thirty years.

Exhibition centers and museum contacts:

Aveiro Museum - "In the Beginning was the Light"

Av. Santa Joana, Aveiro

Tel. 234 423 297

Francisco Tavares Proença Júnior Museum - "Love and Time"

Largo Dr. Joséé Lopes Dias, Castelo Branco

Tel. 272 344 277

Guarda Museum - "Geometry, Alchemy and Language"

Rua General Alves Roçadas, 30 Guarda

Tel. 271 213 460

Joaquim Manso Museum - "Cosmic Symbols: the Sea"

Rua Dom Fuas Roupinho Sítio, Nazaré

Tel. 262 562 801

José Malhoa - "The Imaginary of Reality"

D. Carlos I Park, Caldas da Rainha

Tel. 262 831 984

Santa Clara-a-Velha Monastery - "The Horizon of the Dream"

Rua Parreiras, Coimbra

Tel. 239 801 160

Ceramics Museum - "Tradition and Innovation"

Rua Ilídio Amado, Caldas da Rainha

Tel. 262 840 280

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CPS - Portuguese Screen Printing Center

Tel. 213 933 260 / 213 162 175     Email: contacto@cps.pt 

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