Siza Barroque, Program opens with Conference by Eduardo Souto de Moura
Siza Barroque
Siza Barroque, Program opens with Conference by Eduardo Souto de Moura Siza Barroque
April - December 2024, Soares dos Reis National Museum and Clérigos Church
'Siza Barroco' is a research project developed over the last three years at the Center for Architecture and Urbanism Studies of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (CEAU-FAUP) which aims to highlight the relationship between the idea of Baroque and the work of Álvaro Siza.
The results of the research, observed from a curatorial and not merely monographic perspective, will now be presented in a vast cultural program designed for a wide audience through a diverse set of events open to the city.
The links between Álvaro Siza's architecture and the Baroque are present in various authors who have written about Portugal's first "Ptritzker", as well as in the way he himself, referring to Porto, and to Nasoni, in his own written texts, announces his interest and commitment to learning more about Baroque architecture and the city. As a trend in art in general and architecture in particular, the Baroque wanted to build a new world on the basis of the old one, which it believed was unprepared for the present and the future to come.
The proposal of the research team led by researchers José Miguel Rodrigues, Director of CEAU and professor at FAUP, and Joana Couceiro, Researcher at CEAU-FAUP, is to verify the presence of Baroque ideas and ideals in Álvaro Siza's work, seeking to understand how much this is an architecture without time.
"It was a matter of pursuing a path, a natural path, aware that placing the idea of the Baroque and Álvaro Siza's architecture side by side would bring gains in knowledge to both parties," says the team, stressing that "if, on the one hand, Siza's architecture is better understood in the light of the (ideological) Baroque, the (chronological) Baroque is also more intelligible with Siza's work."
The program, which begins in April and runs until December 2024, includes conferences, an exhibition, a colloquium and a concert that cross and intertwine Siza's architecture, Nasoni's architecture, gilded woodcarving, Baroque-contemporary music, etc.
Program
CONFERÊNCIAS I
Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis
20 de abril (sábado), 16h00, Eduardo Souto de Moura
A Actualidade do Barroco
4 de maio (sábado), 16h00, Ángel Garcia-Posada
O Projecto Contínuo. Fundos e Figuras
18 de maio (sábado), 16h00, Juan José Lahuerta
A Arte na Época do inferno
22 de junho (sábado), 16h00, Maria Filomena Molder
Sem título
EXPOSIÇÃO SIZA BARROCO
12 de setembro a 31 de dezembro
Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis
12 de setembro (quinta-feira), 18h00
Inauguração
CONFERÊNCIAS II
28 de setembro (sábado), 11h00-18h00
Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis
11h00 | Siza e o Barroco
José Miguel Rodrigues e Joana Couceiro
14h30 | Siza e o Moderno
Ana Tostões
16h00 | Siza e o Pós-moderno
Jorge Figueira
17h00 | Debate final
José Miguel Rodrigues, Joana Couceiro, Ana Tostões e Jorge Figueira
Sílvia Ramos (Moderação)
COLÓQUIO
7 de dezembro (sábado), 10h00-18h00
Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis
Betão, Branco, Dourado
Comunicações de:
Sílvia Ramos
Miguel Araújo
Mariana Sá
Ricardo Leitão
Inês Sanz Pinto
Mafalda Lucas
Graça Correia
Hélder Casal Ribeiro
João Pedro Serôdio
Luís Urbano
Marco Ginoulhiac
Nuno Brandão Costa
João Pedro Xavier
Susana Ventura
CONCERTO
14 de dezembro (sábado), 21h30
Igreja dos Clérigos
Magnificat em Talha Dourada (Ó meu menino)
Para Álvaro Siza
e in memoriam a José Quintão e Juan Luis Trillo
Composição Eurico Carrapatoso
(versão URTEXT)
Soprano Angélica Neto
Grupo Vocal Olisipo
Direcção Artística de Armando Possante
The "Siza Barroco" research project is funded in the context of the call for projects in the field of Álvaro Siza's Architecture, launched by the Foundation for Science and Technology (SIZA/CPT/0021/2019), and by the then Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Ministry of Culture, and CEAU-FAUP.
It is supported by the Soares dos Reis National Museum, the Serralves Foundation, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the CCA - Canadian Centre for Architecture, Drawing Matter, Casa da Arquitectura, Irmandade dos Clérigos and the Porto Conservatory of Music.
In addition to the Principal Investigators and the team of researchers from CEAU-FAUP, the project has the participation of Ana Tostões (Full Professor at IST) and Jorge Figueira (Professor at the Department of Architecture at the University of Coimbra and Vice-President of the CES Scientific Council) and has the following as scientific advisors, Maria Filomena Molder (Full Professor at the FCSH of the New University of Lisbon and Researcher at IfILNOVA), Juan José Lahuerta (Full Professor at ETSAB-UPC and Director of the Gaudí Chair at the same University) and Juan Luis Trillo (former Full Professor at ETSA in Seville).
Program subject to change (without prior notice).
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