Discussing the exhibition 'British Art – Vanishing Point', the President of the Board of Trustees of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Professor António M. Feijó, explains, at this conference, how the avant-garde movement operated in its various dimensions.
In the context of the exhibition 'British Art – Vanishing Point', Pedro Aires Oliveira and Henda Ducados explore how thinking about exile and expatriation in Britain, in a specific time and place, both complexifies and broadens our reading of the development of the Portuguese art scene in the twentieth century.
In the context of the exhibition 'British Art – Vanishing Point', Sarah MacDougall and Inês Fialho Brandão tell us how the experience of artists who were forced to emigrate due to the rise of Nazism is expressed in identity, involvement with the war and the processes of integrating new art markets.
Based on the exhibition 'British Art – Vanishing Point', Catarina Alfaro and Leonor de Oliveira explore the artistic panorama of London as a meeting place for artists from different backgrounds, whose creative experiences are associated with shared political, geographic and cultural contexts and spheres of identity.