• 1957
  • Canvas
  • Oil
  • Inv. 83P65

José de Almada Negreiros

Porta da Harmonia [Door of Harmony]

This work is part of a series composed by four geometrically-abstract paintings, all belonging to the collection of the CAM, which establish, theoretically, a numerical unity: Porta da Harmonia [Door of Harmony], O Ponto de Bauhütte [The Bauhütte Point], Quadrante I [Quadrant I] e Relação 9/10 [9/10 Relation] (according to the order intended by the author). Exhibited in the I Visual Arts Exhibition of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, National Society of the Fine Arts, 1957), the jury awarded these paintings outside of the normal competition (won by Eduardo Viana). The poetress Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen defended the justice of this award in a newspaper piece about the exhibition:

‘It is profoundly just that Almada’s paintings were given an out-of-competition award, because, to some extent, they actually are on a different level as the other works exhibited. They do no longer partake of the existential, but of the essential, of the absolute and the abstract. That’s why I had the impression these paintings presided over the entire exhibition. Because they are sheer synthesis, the very law of proportion and harmony which underlies all things that are certain. And this is why such a profound sense of equilibrium, clarification and serenity arises from them. They immediately evoke Greece. Being one of the most modern works from the exhibition, it is also the one most connected to the art of Antiquity. This explains what I hold to be tradition when I say that in the Gulbenkian exhibition tradition was preferred to academism.’*

 

Sara Afonso Ferreira
May 2010

 

* Sophia de Mello Breyner Andersen, ‘Modernidade e tradição na exposição Gulbenkian’, in Diário Popular, January 9, 1958, p. 4 and 6.

TypeValueUnitSection
Height60cm
Width60cm
Typesignature
Typedate
TypeAcquisition
Almada Negreiros
Madrid, Fundación Juan March, 1984
Catálogo de exposição
Almada
Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro de Arte Moderna, 1984
Catálogo de exposição
Almada Negreiros - obra plástica
Lisboa, Bertrand Editora, 1993
Monografia
Almada: A Cena do Corpo
Lisboa, Centro Cultural de Belém, 1994
Catálogo de exposição
Fotobiografias Século XX: Almada Negreiros
Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 2001
Monografia
Almada Negreiros: O menino de olhos de gigante
Lisboa, Caminho, 2005
Monografia
Todo Almada
Lisboa, Contexto Editora, 1994
Catálogo
Heimo Zobernig e a Colecção do Centro de Arte Moderna da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian/ Heimo Zobernig and the Collection of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Modern Art Centre; Heimo Zobernig and the Tate Colllection/ Heimo Zobernig e a Colecção da Tate
Lisboa/ St. Ives, 2009
ISBN:978-1-85437-826-2
Catálogo de exposição
Inauguração do CAM
CAM/FCG
Curator: A definir
20 de Julho de 1983
Lisboa, Centro de Arte Moderna/ FCG
20 de Julho 1983.
50 Anos de Arte Portuguesa
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Curator: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
6 de Junho de 2007 a 9 de Setembro de 2007
Sede da FCG, Piso 0 e 01
Exposição programada pelo Serviço de Belas-Artes e pelo Centro de Arte Moderna, da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.Comissariado: Raquel Henriques da Silva, Ana Ruivo e Ana Filipa Candeias
Heimo Zobernig e a Colecção do Centro de Arte Moderna da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
CAM/FCG
Curator: Jürgen Bock
11 de Fevereiro de 2009 a 31 de Agosto
Centro de Arte Moderna
Exposição realizada em parceria com a Tate St. Ives. Inclui obras da colecção da Tate de St. Ives, do Centro de Arte Moderna e do artista Heimo Zobernig. De 24 de Maio a 31 de Agosto de 2009 estiveram expostas apenas as obras do CAM escolhidas pelo artista.
Almada Negreiros
Fundación Juan March
Curator: Fundación Juan March
1983 a 1984
Fundación Juan March, Madrid
Organizadores: Sommer Ribeiro, Lima de Freitas e Margarida Acciaiuoli.
Almada: A Cena do Corpo
Centro Cultural de Belém
Curator: José de Monterroso Teixeira
1993 a 1994
Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa
Almada
CAM/FCG
Curator: CAM/FCG
1984 a 1984
Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisboa
Organizadores: José Sommer Ribeiro, Isabel Guedes, Alice Guerra.
I Exposição de Artes Plásticas da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
SNBA
Curator: SNBA
1957 a 1957
Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisboa
Updated on 01 may 2023

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