DISPLAY:
OBJECTS, BUILDINGS AND SPACE
Contemporary Art at Palácio Quintela

experimentadesign’s cultural programme for Palácio Quintela continues with the exhibition Display: objects, buildings and space. Six Lisbon galleries were invited to present works that reflect the relationship between art, space, architecture and objects. Baginski, Galeria/Projectos; Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art; Galeria Graça Brandão; Galeria Filomena Soares, MARZ Galeria e Vera Cortês Art Agency, together with experimentadesign, selected 23 works by 22 Portuguese and foreign artists represented by the galleries. Different generations, backgrounds and practices in dialogue with the striking, uniquely atmospheric setting of Palácio Quintela.

André Romão; Ângela Ferreira; Daniel Blaufuks; Diogo Pimentão; Gonçalo Sena; Helena Almeida; João Galrão; João Penalva; João Seguro; John Wood and Paul Harrison; José Pedro Croft; Lawrence Weiner; Mauro Cerqueira; Nicolás Robbio; Nuno Ramalho e Renato Ferrão; Nuno Sousa Vieira; Rui Calçada Bastos; Rui Chafes; Rui Valério; Rui Toscano.

For experimentadesign, whose main territory is design and design culture, the ties with other forms of creative, cultural and scientific expression is at the heart of the association’s work since its inception in 1998. This exhibition signals the start of a programme series under the generic title “Display:”, which invites a number of cultural agents - both Portuguese and foreign - from different creative areas, to address a given thematic challenge.

Palácio Quintela
17 Dec 2010 – 30 Jan 2011
10 am - 8 pm Tuesday to Sunday
Free admission

Rua do Alecrim, 70 / 1200-018 Lisboa

experimentadesign promotes social design competition in 22 schools in Portugal, in a joint project with the UK

Action for Age 2 was launched on November 5, in the Main Auditorium of Faculdade de Bela Artes de Lisboa (Fine Arts’ Faculty of Lisbon University), before an audience of nearly 400 students and 38 lecturers from 22 Portuguese schools. After a promising fisrt edition – whose results were featured in the Biennale EXD’09 – the second edition of this creative lab challenges design and architecture students and young graduates to develop proposals that stimulate active and positive intergenerational relationships as a means of fighting loneliness and social isolation among the elderly.

With an extended work schedule, whereby the brief is developed as part of the curricular coursework of the participating schools, Action for Age 2 also puts a greater emphasis on the implementation phase, with the selection of 12 proposals to be put into practice on a pilot project basis.

An initiative and original brief of RSA – Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, from the UK, Action for Age was organized in 2009 in partnership with experimentadesign and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, which are joined in 2010/11 by Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa.

For more information visit www.experimentadesign.pt/actionforage

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