With its Modern Art Center closed for construction, Gulbenkian put containers on the street with new projects by Carlos Bunga and Rui Toscano.
The Gulbenkian garden is being expandedThis meant closing the building of the Modern Art Center (CAM)which is also part of the intervention. With CAM closed, Gulbenkian has been focusing on programming outside its doors - the CAM On the Move -, which involves works from the CAM Collection as well as original interventions.
A programming CAM On the Move is being launched in different phases and has several surprises in store. It began with interventions on trains in the Cascais lines e SintraNow it is presenting projects created from scratch for two shipping containers, installed in two locations in the city - Terreiro do Paço and Fonte Nova.
A house by the river
Carlos Bunga created his artistic project in a shipping container that was installed next to the Terreiro do Paço river stationin the new square at Sul e Sueste station. In this piece, entitled HomeIn this installation, the political but also poetic thinking that the artist has developed around the idea of home is revealed and questioned. The artist uses versatile and organic materials, such as cardboard, adhesive tape and household paints, to produce installations site-specific and oriented towards the work and construction process.
Emerging from a dialog with the existing architectural space, these ephemeral structures resemble full-scale architectural models, or even temporary street shelters. Through his work, Bunga not only encourages visitors to rethink their experience of space and architecture, but also evokes the the fragile and temporary nature of urban structures.
A house by the river
At Fonte Nova Squarerenewed in 2017, Rui Toscano presents an original sculpture inside a shipping container. Entitled Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe #4opens up a new narrative context in his work. The artist focuses on the image of a painting of a ceramic piece from Ancient Greece, in which Dionysus plays a lyre flanked by two dancing satyrs, shaking a pair of castanets.
The Fonte Nova Square - which is very busy and used by the inhabitants of the Benfica parish, but also by passers-by who go there every day to commute to work - is now on the map of artistic interventions by the CAM in Motion, an initiative that aims to bring people closer to contemporary art.
Also as part of the CAM in Motion, CAM and the magazine Contemporary invited the artist Jaime Welsh designing a photographic project for the pages of the magazine's seventh print edition, designed as an exhibition space.
These are the latest initiatives from CAM in MotionThe "out of doors" program has been expanded and worked on during CAM's renovation work, which will give the building a new face and expand its exhibition area. While the city cannot yet count on this new space, designed by architect Kengo Kuma, and with the new garden that will be open to the publicThis initiative provides new places for people to meet CAM's works of art, as well as interventions by guest artists.
O CAM in Motion began with interventions on the trains of the Cascais and Sintra lines, by Fernanda Fragateiro and Didier Fiúza Faustino respectively; with the placement in the Gulbenkian Garden of a container where video cycles from the CAM collection are projected; a design for the siding around the CAM building, illustrated by António Jorge Gonçalves, which can be seen on Rua Nicolau de BettencourtThere will also be an exhibition of works from CAM's British Art Collection at Casa das Histórias Paula Rego in Cascais. The containers in Terreiro do Paço and Fonte Nova will remain on the street until July 30th. You can follow CAM On the Move here.
