Exhibition “Paula Rego and Salette Tavares”

Mapping feminine creativity in the 70s

Magazines and exhibition catalogues from the Art Library's collection on display at the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego until May 21.

19 may 2023

In parallel with the exhibition Everyday stories. Paula Rego, the 70s, the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego has open to the public until May 21 the exhibition Paula Rego and Salette Tavares: Mapping feminine creativity in the 70s. This exhibition, which addresses the relationship of friendship and artistic complicity between the artists Salette Tavares and Paula Rego, includes 11 publications – magazines and exhibition catalogues – from the Art Library’s collection.

Documenting the temporal period in focus, on display are two issues of the journal Binário: architecture, construction, equipment, from 1975, where Salette Tavares is interviewed, and the October 1971 issue of the journal Colóquio. Artes. The remaining publications are individual exhibition catalogues of Paula Rego (1972, 1974, 1978), Salette Tavares (1971), the catalogue of the AICA exhibition (1974), two exhibition catalogues which showed works by women artists (Lisbon, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, and Centre Culturel Portuguais in Paris, 1997) and the catalogue Dialogue: féminie 79, which was published alongside the exhibition held in Paris under the auspices of UNESCO in 1979.