LandArt Cascais 2024
Quinta do Pisão, in the heart of the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, will host the 11th edition of LandArt Cascais until September 1, 2024, the biennial exhibition that brings works of art to the natural setting of the Cascais territory. Held since 2009, LandArt Cascais takes place under the programmatic management of the D. Luís I Foundation, in a joint initiative with Cascais Town Hall.
For the 2024 edition, the project's cultural mediator, Professor Luísa Soares de Oliveira, invited artists Francisca Carvalho, Pedro Vaz and Rui Matos to develop works based on the concept of home and shelter that would be integrated into the open-air landscape of Quinta do Pisão, favoring contact between people, nature and art.
Without knowing each other's projects beforehand, the artists, two painters - Francisca Carvalho and Pedro Vaz - and a sculptor, Rui Matos, created different approaches to the proposed theme. Francisca Carvalho's work is based on an existing structure at Quinta do Pisão, an old chapel, now almost a ruin, where there are still traces of old mural decorations that used to be called pretenses, emulating noble materials. In the work entitled "A Multiplicação dos Fingidos", the artist expands the chapel's decoration with hand-dyed fabrics, a technique she has been developing in recent years.
In "One-night shelter", Pedro Vaz builds a temporary shelter where visitors to the farm can shelter and even stay for a while. The artist's aim, far beyond presenting a three-dimensional structure, is to provide a longer contact between people and nature and also to allow physical interaction with the work of art.
Rui Matos created an archaeological object entitled "Blind Passage". Quinta do Pisão has several archaeological structures, to which Matos adds the one he imagined would have been inhabited by the men and women of the past, inviting us to project the signs of those vanished lives into the present.
"The works are very different from each other, but they all have their origins in this primordial element: the existence, real, imaginary or built, of a structure based on the division between an exterior and an interior, between an exterior and an interior, between protection and its absence. The house or shelter, in their various meanings, always evoke these ideas. They protect, welcome, safeguard and even, because we are in a natural park environment, establish themselves as the place where it is possible to unite nature and culture," adds curator Luísa Soares de Oliveira.
Find out more: https://www.fundacaodomluis.pt/expositions/landart-cascais-2024
More information: Contact: 214 815 660 | geral@fdl.pt
Organization: Cascais City Council | D. Luís I Foundation