Exhibition

Helmut Federle. Abstract Matter [Paintings and Ceramics]

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Abstract Matter presents the work and collections of the 17th-century Moroccan and Japanese ceramics of the Swiss painter Helmut Federle, which is placed in dialogue with the Gulbenkian Museum’s Islamic art ceramics.

This exhibition includes fourteen paintings selected by the artist himself, in close cooperation with our curatorship, and around thirty ceramics from both collections.

The main focus of this exhibition is to stage dialogues between the 17th-century Safavid ceramics from the Founder’s Collection and the Moroccan and Japanese from Helmut’s collections, but also the way they can relate to his contemporary artistic work and how all is permeated by a general sense of abstraction.

The double condition of Helmut Federle as both an artist and a collector is also addressed, both in the exhibition as in its publication.