07 July - 21 February 2011
Opening hour: 18h30
The title of the
exhibition The body has more
elbows is taken from a remark made by the artist
which describes the exacting task of working with a model and how
through the representation of the body and the model's dynamic
presence in the composition, the story starts to take
shape.
The common thread running
through the works in this exhibition is this demanding act of
looking closely at another and observing the line as it pins down
both the reality and the fiction, be it in a body cut up by the
focus of the drawing, or placed in space in relation to others. The
medium which feeds this process is drawing and through that come
the etchings.
This exhibition brings
together hundreds of works and leads the visitor to the Oratory,
where a new element is introduced to the composition: sculptures in
cloth and plastic, removed from their role as models and introduced
as three-dimensional objects in a constructed space.
Some emblematic works can be
highlighted along the exhibition, such as
Love, Among Women,
Angel, the Mercy and
Life Cycle of the Virgin Mary series, all by
Paula Rego, but also Place by Victor Willing,
her late husband, who died at the end of the 1980s, and whose
memory of the painted space Paula Rego has inhabited with her
stories. This exhibition is curated by Ana Ruivo, consultant at the
Casa das Histórias Paula Rego.
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