The historian, coordinator and art critic Miguel von Half Perez He will be a new secretary of the Luso-Mamerican Foundation (Luso-Mamerican Foundation (contemporary arts group)levelAntónio pinto ribiro.
This announcement was announced last week by the Foundation, which was established in 1985 by the Portuguese state to enhance cooperation with Lusu societies in the United States. Enhancing “its role as an agent in the evaluation and promotion of contemporary Portuguese art”, that Flad Group It is a historical reference. Nuno Morris SarminoThe former Minister of Governments at Duru Barroso and Pedro Santana Lopez, who replaced last year in his position Rita Faden.
“It was an unexpected invitation, but it honors me a lot, and this represents a challenge to the traditions that this group faced in the context of contemporary Portuguese art,” I bet Miguel von Half Perez, to respond to new challenges, “open it to the new media and newly emerging artists.”
Attention to drawing
Flad Group was founded in 1986, a historian city and teacher Manuel Castro Callas“This was responsible for his start, and that, about the excellence in his options and the way he had expanded a central axis that was built from the drawing, and his individuality intensified,” his new trustee notes in the statement conveyed by the Foundation.
The Flad Group currently contains more than a thousand works, which is a representative group of Portuguese artistic production from the eighties until the early twenty -first century, and the special attention mentioned above in drawing discipline – an example is partnership with the exhibition The drawing room is to curse (Which will receive in October the eighth version), which was sponsored by the Foundation, for a period of four years, Vlad Plash Award.
Miguel von Half Perez recalls that this was “one of the first main institutional groups in Portugal, after Gulpinken,” and came “at a time when he was neither Serfies nor the Belam Cultural Center,” as the audience told.
Part of the group is currently in deposit in the basis of Serralves, where it was displayed in its exhibitions or loans to other institutions.
“It is an interesting challenge to expand this heritage and give more vision, in addition to the FAD activities center, which is an incentive to rethink the group itself,” added the coordinator on his program, which is expected to happen at the end of the five -time Flad direction.
“The continuous recovery of the authors and works that explain the ability to launch new eyes and questions about the history of Portuguese art since the 1960s, openness to new means and interest in emerging artists is basic buildings for future and future action,”
A certificate in the history of art from the Faculty of Porto University Messages, Miguel von Half Perez began his career path at Serfes Foundation in the late eighties, then he directed the Cuperino de Miranda Foundation at the Nova de Vallao Villa in the second half of the nineties. He played a great role in the European Capital Programming team – Porto 2001, and the coordination of fine arts, architecture and city. The following year, the Portuguese acting was cost Sao Paulo, and between 2009 and 2015, face Al -Ghalibi Center for Contemporary ArtIn Santiago de Compostilla.
The Flad Group will now participate with a group of a group of Elliuho FoundationIn Porto, as well as with programming Visual Arts Center (CAV), in Kevibra.
