Special visit with Artists and Curators | Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
Special visit
Artists, essayists, curators hold a round table discussion about the purpose of the exhibition.
A variety of opinions deepens the interpretation of the works and journeys of the artists, relates contemporary artistic contexts and practices to the modern-day, with the themes handled by the artists featured.
The transformation occurs in the planning of the drawing, where the artist decomposes the archive and creates different relationships between both parts: registration, transformation and subversion the discourse of the collection and the museum, creating an imaginary estate, an archive of images about the iconography of numismatics, of power and desire.
Exhibiton Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
“Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part."
Herman Melville, Moby Dick, cap. XI
In this drawing practice, we go across the long aquatic blindness.
These effigies, represented on drawings of coins, are part of a vast drawing work, using the color red, that Pedro A.H. Paixão has been developing since 2007. Ghostly and grotesque, these are portraits of a past beyond history, figuration, or recognition. Portraits that reveal the coming and going of voices of this world, anonymous and glorious. Without name or kingdom, these figures subvert order and power when they are inscribed on coins and medals.
From Ahab's folly, who, with the aid of a gold doubloon convinces his crew to commit themselves to the suicidal hunt of Moby Dick, to the recognition of the hobo nickel tradition, the artist proposes a notion of money that considers its narrative and representational structure and invests in a parable – to receive, to transform, to give – that is, in itself, also the parable of the artistic practice. In these drawings we do not “coin” sovereigns, divinities or talismans, we give light and voice to essential figures that emphasize the value of partaking or human sharing.
Onsite
Onsite
ACCESS
Free
DURAtion
60 minutes
target-audience
+14 years old
Only in Portuguese
PARTICIPATION
Advance booking required
More information to info@museudodinheiro.pt or +351 213 213 240
Artists, essayists, curators hold a round table discussion about the purpose of the exhibition.
A variety of opinions deepens the interpretation of the works and journeys of the artists, relates contemporary artistic contexts and practices to the modern-day, with the themes handled by the artists featured.
The transformation occurs in the planning of the drawing, where the artist decomposes the archive and creates different relationships between both parts: registration, transformation and subversion the discourse of the collection and the museum, creating an imaginary estate, an archive of images about the iconography of numismatics, of power and desire.
Exhibiton Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
“Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part."
Herman Melville, Moby Dick, cap. XI
In this drawing practice, we go across the long aquatic blindness.
These effigies, represented on drawings of coins, are part of a vast drawing work, using the color red, that Pedro A.H. Paixão has been developing since 2007. Ghostly and grotesque, these are portraits of a past beyond history, figuration, or recognition. Portraits that reveal the coming and going of voices of this world, anonymous and glorious. Without name or kingdom, these figures subvert order and power when they are inscribed on coins and medals.
From Ahab's folly, who, with the aid of a gold doubloon convinces his crew to commit themselves to the suicidal hunt of Moby Dick, to the recognition of the hobo nickel tradition, the artist proposes a notion of money that considers its narrative and representational structure and invests in a parable – to receive, to transform, to give – that is, in itself, also the parable of the artistic practice. In these drawings we do not “coin” sovereigns, divinities or talismans, we give light and voice to essential figures that emphasize the value of partaking or human sharing.
Onsite
ACCESS
Free
DURAtion
60 minutes
target-audience
+14 years old
Only in Portuguese
PARTICIPATION
Advance booking required
More information to info@museudodinheiro.pt or +351 213 213 240