Quote / Unquote

Quote, Unquote. Between Appropriation and Dialogue showcases a selection of works from the Fundação EDP collection, patron of the Galeria Municipal since 2015, on the theme of appropriation in contemporary art.

During the time period that defines the collection – from the 1960’s to the present day – the exhibition proposes a transversal interpretation of these practices: the direct appropriation of images, texts or other forms of cultural production, the quotation as an element that contributes to the production of meaning, or the conscious dialogue with authors and pre-existing creations. This proposal seeks “not so much to provide a historical reading of the processes of appropriation in the more or less recent history of art, but rather to identify, from the standpoint of some of the critical approaches of recent decades, what may have influenced the work of the artists represented and curatorial choices.

Undertaken as a collaborative curatorship – Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro and Ana Anacleto – the exhibition is structured around three sub-headings: “Archive and Everyday Life”, “Spatiality and Politics” and “Image and Narrative”, whose aim is to bring together sets of works around elective affinities, thus also proposing intrinsic dialogues.
“As a preliminary remark, we may say that many of these works could drift between these sections. This flexible positioning serves as a parameter for a non-categorical understanding and intends to establish a flow of meaning(s), a kind of rhythm of interpretation in which certain threads are abandoned and then resumed, both between the works present in the exhibition and with others, like an echo of appropriation itself”, in Gabriela Vaz Pinheiro’s own words.

Artists: Daniel Barroca, Eduardo Batarda, Joaquim Bravo, Pedro Calapez, Fernando Calhau, Luís Campos, Nuno Cera, Mauro Cerqueira, José Pedro Croft, Diogo Evangelista, Ângela Ferreira, Mariana Gomes, André Guedes, Ricardo Jacinto, Ana Jotta, Álvaro Lapa, João Marçal, Carlos Azeredo Mesquita, Rodrigo Oliveira, Bruno Pacheco, João Maria Gusmão e Pedro Paiva, João Penalva, José Almeida Pereira, Diogo Pimentão, Lúcia Prancha, Pedro Diniz Reis, André Romão, Noé Sendas, Ângelo de Sousa and Ana Vieira.

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