SOME DRAWING. Works from the Ilídio Pinho Foundation collection at the Drawing Room Lisboa
Some drawing offers an opportunity to discover works from the Ilídio Pinho Foundation collection that are not regularly exhibited. With an exclusively Portuguese scope, this collection includes significant works by artists such as Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and Júlio Pomar.
Conceived from a premise of singularity and historical relevance, its inclusions today reflect continued attention to current production and the constant and necessary reevaluation of the past to fill more or less obvious gaps.
The context in question presents artists who, for the most part, do not allow themselves to be defined by an exclusive discipline, having touched upon fields as diverse as painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and moving image.
However, everyone considered drawing in its formal, expressive, and conceptual potential, thus anchoring this practice as essential to contemporary creation, far beyond the old cliché of preparatory drawing or sketching.
Curator:
Michael Von Hafe Pérez
Curator of the Ilídio Pinho Foundation Collection, Porto
Artists:
Ângelo de Sousa (Mozambique, 1938 – Portugal, 2011)
António Sena (Portugal, 1941 – 2024)
Jorge Pinheiro (Portugal, 1931)
José Barrias (Portugal, 1944 – 2020)
Manuel Baptista (Portugal, 1936 – 2023)
Maria Beatriz (Portugal, 1940 – Netherlands, 2020)
Susanne Themlitz (Portugal, 1968)
ILÍDIO PINHO FOUNDATION COLLECTION
Collecting, privately, with careful attention and Continuing his interest in the context of 20th-century Portuguese art, Eng. Ilídio Pinho would emphasize his interest in the cultural sphere at the Foundation, created in 2000 with the aim of “keeping alive the memory of his son, Ilídio Pedro, honoring him with this public service entrepreneurship project, serving patriotic causes.”
His private collection would be supplemented at the Foundation from 2006 onwards with a significant collection of works from the 1960s to the present day, acquired mostly as support for artists for specific projects (such as the publication of authorial books, artistic residencies abroad, or the production of works, catalogs, or exhibitions).
Photo:
Susanne Themlitz. From the series “Parallel Landscape or in Search of Mirror Neurons” [#2], 2008