CINEMA: SEVERAL FILMS FROM THE SERRALVES COLLECTION

This exhibition attempts to summarise the current relationship between cinema and contemporary art galleries and museums. Visual artists’ interest in the cinema and the particularities of this visual regime led artists such as Douglas Gordon, primarily from the 1990s onwards, to appropriate excerpts from iconic films in the history of cinema. Museums have also provided several filmmakers – Pedro Costa and Manoel de Oliveira are two paradigm examples – with conditions to present and produce new works. In the case of Pedro Costa, who is regularly invited to present video installations in visual arts contexts, in particular in the Serralves Museum (in 2005) and in Art Biennials (such as the most recent São Paulo Biennial), presents installations that are directly related with his films presented in traditional film theatres. Manoel de Oliveira, on the other hand, accepted Serralves Museum’s invitation to present a film produced by us in the Museum’s galleries, without prejudice to its normal circulation in film festivals and theatres.

22 OCT - 21 NOV 2010
Museum

Pedro Costa,
Casal da Boba, 2005
and
Douglas Gordon
Between Darkness and Light (after William Blake), 1997

Continuous projections.


23 NOV - 10 DEC 2010*
Museum

Pedro Costa
Casal da Boba, 2005

Continuous projection.
* To be confirmed.

09 DEC 2010, 21:30
Auditorium

Manoel de Oliveira
Panels of São Vicente de Fora
Poetic Vision, 2009

Premiere screening in Oporto.

10 DEC 2010 - 9 JAN 2011
Museum

Manoel de Oliveira
Panels of São Vicente de Fora
Poetic Vision, 2009

Continuous projection.

Curator: João Fernandes
Production: Serralves Foundation