Patrícia Rosas

Curatorial Work

Abstraction and the Human Figure from CAM’s British Art Collection

CAM Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, January 21st to 18th April 2010

Tasks: Assistant curator

Abstraction and the Human Figure presents a selection of 80 works from CAM’s British Art Collection, devoted to the theme of abstraction and the figuration of the human body.Offering a route around the main groups of artists and works that came to form part of this collection during the most consistent period of acquisition (between 1959 and 1965), a range of abstract and figurative expressions can be found.Seven areas are set out according to different themes: British constructivism; the landscape abstraction of St. Ives; Pop Art; Op Art; London School; Situation; Glasgow Renaissance. Presented in the exhibition works by: Bernard Cohen, Richard Deacon, Robyn Denny, Gilbert & George, Antony Gormley, Richard Hamilton, Barbara Hepworth, Craigie Horsfield, Victor Pasmore, Bridget Riley, Rachel Whiteread, Bill Woodrow.

Back to School – Works from the CAM Collection

CAM Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, September 28th to December 19th 2010

Tasks: Assistant curatorCommunication (website, press release, booklet)

Back to School consist of works drawn from the collection of the CAM Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and is an exhibition that has been specifically designed to provide a complement to the Teachers exhibition. In the same year as we celebrate the centenary of the implantation of the Portuguese Republic, in whose ideological edifice education was a crucial support, these two exhibitions, based on distinct premises, do, however, function as a kind of diptych in which special emphasis is placed on the importance of knowledge, art education and the transmission of different teachings. This exhibition follows a particular thread from the programming of the CAM Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, which is that of extracting concepts and themes from the temporary exhibitions that make it possible to look at the Centre’s collection from new vantage points.

Between Spaces – CAM’s Collection 1968-2011

CAM Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, June 1st to August 26th 2012

Tasks: Co-curatorCommunication (website, press release, booklet)

The exhibition Between Spaces, presented in the level 0 of CAM, brings together more than twenty works from its collection, all produced between the late 1960s and 2011. Sculptures, photographs, installations, paintings and videos suggest the presence of an indeterminate or undefined space, a gap – between the lines, planes, margins, bodies, territories - spaces between that leave open the possibility for actions, happenings, narratives, affirming themselves as spaces for possible or potential encounters, which sometimes can be deceptive, or inconclusive. Presented in the exhibition works by: Helena Almeida, Vasco Araújo, Waltercio Caldas, Fernando Calhau, Rui Chafes, Didier Fiuza Faustino, João Paulo Feliciano, Fernanda Fragateiro, Tim Head, Bruno Pacheco, Vítor Pomar, Rui Sanches, Julião Sarmento, Noé Sendas, Augusto Alves da Silva, Jane & Louise Wilson.

“the image of you that I composed” – Homage to Julio

CAM Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, January 18th to April 7th

2013

Tasks: Research and curatorial workCommunication (website, press release, booklet)

Homage to Julio is primarily based on the first stages in the artistic career of Júlio dos Reis Pereira (1902-1983), placing emphasis on the painter’s surrealist and expressionist work.  An exhibition organized on the basis of a partnership between the CAM Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Cupertino de Miranda Foundation, both of which institutions hold a significant number of the artist’s works in their collections.  Julio developed an experimental proposal charged with commitment and a dedication that drives towards revelations pregnant with essence. This presence of the poet, under the pseudonym Saúl Dias –, who is mirrored in the consciousness of each work – cannot be dissociated from it, assisted as it is by a desire to become. A journey made in parallel to the completeness that was felt in Portugal, an adventure carried out for its own sake, paying attention to what could be grasped on his travels, his reading, and his encounters. It was the construction of a uniqueness that is present in his work and that offers us the experience of discovery and the feeling of occupying a unique space.

Tasks: Editorial coordinationCo-author of the text: “The Essence of Julio”

Abstraction and the Human Figure from CAM’s British Art CollectionCAM Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, January 21st to 18th April 2010Assistant curatorBack to School – Works from the CAM CollectionCAM Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, September 28th to December 19th 2010Assistant curator, Communication (website, press release, booklet)Between Spaces – CAM’s Collection 1968-2011CAM Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, June 1st to August 26th 2012Co-curator, Communication (website, press release, booklet)

“the image of you that I composed” – Homage to JulioCAM Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, January 18th to April7th 2013Research and curatorial work, Communication (website, press release, booklet), Editorial coordination, Co-author of the text: “The Essence of Julio”

Curatorial Work