Espaço enquanto matéria da arte, espaço enquanto matéria do museu : (re)configurações da experiência site-specific

The central theme of this dissertation encompasses the importance of space, particularly the exhibition space, and how it has become part of the subject matter, as well as a medium in art. Some artistic practices of the 20th century, mainly in the 20s and 60s, both in Europe and the United States of America have provided the contextual foundation. The close relation between the architectural and exhibition spaces has become an intrinsic link to establish the existence of the three-dimensional work of art. The overarching importance of space in the contemporary artistic practice is visible through the creative and exhibition installation process, most notably in the artistic movements of Installation art and Site-specific. By carrying over the transformative contemporary art scene concepts to an institutional and museological context, paired with the inherent evolution of its practices, these have allowed for a convergence of the museological fields. With the intention of providing audiences a unique experience, curators and museologists have relied on site-specific practices. By inviting artists (typically featured in the current artistic scene) to develop projects specially thought for a specific museum space, this simultaneously allows for a dialogue between the work of art and the space. These temporary exhibitions have garnered the attention a more diverse audience. As a result sustainability and independence of the museums are a constant source of debate. The result of which has allowed for the broadening of the notions of how museums function and have integrated the audience as a main element of the strategies of the museum programming. The principles of the cultural marketing provide museums a clearer vision of the understanding of the different audience and their needs. Thus, the main goal of this study is to perceive the importance of the museum space in the relation to the artistic practice. While existing as a strategic resource of the museological program, insofar as having the ability to lure new audiences. It also matters to notice, if the fact of the artist working directly inside the museum, contribute to a narrowing of the artist/audience relationship, being the museum the mediation element

Arte-educação : a mediação cultural e o trabalho com equipas criativas

Relatório de estágio de mestrado, Ciências da Educação (Educação Intercultural), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Educação, 2011

Potencialidades da arte pública relacional na arte/educação:práticas da cidade como sala de aula

Tese de doutoramento, Belas-Artes (Educação Artística), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, 2014

Cartografias do invisível : para uma redefinição da serigrafia como meio operativo : a dissimulação da repetição

This dissertation searches for new possibilities into the way of operating with screen printing, as well as its importance in the context of the operational methods of the visual arts, based on a personal project of painting. To this end, we resource to the mapping and the linear drawings of city maps as a way to reflect upon its use in contemporary art. Also, we establish a connection between the way these cities organize themselves and the theories of the rhizome by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari; the cartography and the grids of Rosalind Krauss, with the artistic aim to build screen printing matrixes; and also the function in gesture of making ‘printings’ with the conjectures of Didi-Huberman. We investigate also the consequences of a mode of doing by resourcing to screen printing with respect to the construction of visual metaphors in painting

Estudo e tratamento de conservação e restauro da pintura Feto do artista Jorge Pinheiro

Followed by the opportunity of attending an internship at Argo – Art, Heritage and Culture, emerges the opportunity of studying and become responsible for the conservation and restoration of a painting by Jorge Pinheiro (Coimbra, 1931), whom is responsible for a wide artistic production that is vastly renowned and featured in particular and public collections, both nationally and internationally. This dissertation describes the study and the intervention of conservation and restoration of the contemporary painting Feto, executed in 1965 by Jorge Pinheiro, which was carried out during my internship of the Master’s in Science of Conservation, Restoration and Production of Contemporary Art, that took place in the company Argo, between November 2014 and April 2015. The issues in the conservation and restoration of contemporary art, related with the increasingly variety of materials that artists have been using since the beginning of the twentieth century, it’s also one of the main themes explored in this dissertation. From conservation and restoration, to the life and work of an artist, the following dissertation, besides describing in detail all the studies and steps that I took in the conservation and restoration of the oil on canvas painting, Feto (1965), it also reveals a closer look into the life and artistic career of Jorge Pinheiro

O mercado da arte moderna e contemporânea em Portugal : 2005-2013

Tese de doutoramento, História (História de Arte), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, 2016

“Walden”: The «Art of Living»

Henry David Thoreau and his masterpiece, Walden, are both deeply embedded in our lives. It’s almost impossible today to perform a candid walk through the pages of the book that brings in its title the name of the beautiful lake, near Concord, without carrying to our contemporary reading the constellation of fears that haunt us. We are the fragile inhabitants of the grim and probably desperate, “Anthropocene era”2. How can we follow the thoughts and steps from the solitary friend and disciple of Emerson, without seeing him as a forefather of our anguish before the future, seemingly captured by the shadows of economic doom and environmental collapse?