“The CHPR Collection in Dialogue”, by Paula Rego
Inaugurated fifteen years ago in Cascais, the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, a monographic museum dedicated to Portugal's best-known contemporary artist, is a landmark on the country's cultural scene. At the same time, the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego Collection began to be built, the focus of the new exhibition “The CHPR Collection in Dialogue”.
Belonging to Cascais City Council, the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego Collection came into being in parallel with the creation of the museum in 2009, and has since become one of the most significant in the national and international context for deepening knowledge of the artist's work. “The CHPR Collection in Dialogue”, the new exhibition that the museum is inaugurating on October 31, will be the most comprehensive display of the Collection ever held.
“The current exhibition assumes the full mission of this museum by making its collection available in a more stable way, for one year, and establishing a new and stimulating reading, which does not necessarily obey the chronological criterion, but rather organizes the works in a new dialogue that values the specificities of Rego's artistic work and the different aspects on which it has focused over six decades,” says Catarina Alfaro, curator and coordinator of programming and conservation at Casa das Histórias Paula Rego.
15 years of the Paula Rego House of Stories
by Salvato Teles de Menezes - President of the D. Luís I Foundation and Municipal Director of Culture
“Fifteen years into the uninterrupted operation of the CHPR, it may be worth saying something about the way in which activities have been carried out in this cultural facility of the Municipality of Cascais.
But it's also worth mentioning the existence of a store (with notable sales success, especially items related to the artist's work and the building itself) and the decision to name the Auditorium after Maria de Jesus Barroso, where major cultural events have been held, including the Luso-Spanish Encounters organized by the Duques de Soria and D. Luís I Foundations.
In the context of what is basically at the heart of the CHPR's philosophy of artistic and cultural intervention, it is important to note that care has always been taken to study and publicize the artist's work, with exhibitions and catalogs of exceptional quality, without, on the other hand, neglecting, as would be desirable and expected, the more or less explicit relationships of other artists with Paula Rego's work.
Despite some attempts at destabilization organized by interests that are not as hidden as they would like to be, the CHPR is alive and well, doing justice to the artist's legacy, under the tutelage of the D. Luís I Foundation and a Joint Committee whose actions have been determined for this purpose by the Cascais City Council.”
Find out more about the CHPR in Dialogue Collection : HERE
More information: 214 815 660 | geral@fdl.pt
Organization: Cascais City Council | D. Luís I Foundation | Museum Quarter
