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1/12/2006

Candida Hoefer

Centro Cultural de Belem - CCB, Lisboa

Gallery 1/ Floor 1

In 2005 the Centro Cultural de Bele'm invited the renowned German photographer Candida Hofer to visit Portugal to photograph several indoor areas of Portuguese monuments and public and private buildings.

As a result of the visits paid between October 2005 and July 2006 the series "Portugal" is displayed, which integrates about 70 unpublished pictures of a large format with images of indoor areas of the National Pantheon, Monastery of Jero'nimos, Convent of Mafra, Society of Geography, National Library, Palace of Bele'm, Library and National Palace of Ajuda, Foundation of Serralves, House of Music, Coliseum of Porto and Library of the University of Coimbra, amongst others.

Candida Hofer (born in 1944 and native of Eberswalde, in Germany) was a disciple of Bernd and Hilla Becher and chose the "space" as the central theme of her work. More than mere representations of architectonic monumentality, Candida Hofer's work can be understood as a sensitive picture of the spaces where, in spite of the absence of Man there are constant indicators of vestiges left and structures that were created by him.

Educational Departement in focus

Photography or Scenery? (Visit + Candida Hofer Workshop)

After the visit to the exhibition the students recall some of the images that they are going to transform into ceramics. The students have to place characters on the stages which they consider more adequate for those spaces in accordance with the different times they have lived through. In this way Candida Hofer‘s backdrop is explored and we will find human presence unlikely with historical and cultural dimensions of the spaces exploited that fascinate her.
Date/Time: 9th December, Saturday 11H00 | Target Public: from 6 to 12 years of age accompanied by an adult.
No. of participants: 25 students | Duration: 1H40.


Nuno Cera

Ghosts

Gallery 2 | Floor 1

Commissioner: Nuno Crespo

When using film, photography and drawing I create my own field of vision. Emotions and landscapes, experience of time and places, beauty, blood and cities are the places where I am and which I am always going to. Nuno Cera

The exhibition Ghosts gathers, for the first time in the same space, a selection of films, videos, photographs and drawings by Nuno Cera, amongst which are five unpublished works. The base of Nuno Wax's work is photography from where he is in constant search of visual and temporary experiences - emotions and landscapes, light and shadow, speed and contemplation, people and places.

The exhibition is assumed as an itinerary in which new and old works are gathered together to build a unique experience. The picture of a city (Berlin); experiences with time and repetition [Iris (with tropicamina)]; the relationship of light with the lens of the camera and with a forest (Pure Light); simple and abstract movements [Untitled (snow)]; a nostalgic trip to an apocalyptic and black landscape (Dark Forces); an almost architectonic documentary on a nazi building, the memory and space (The Prora Complex); a video of a ghost that becomes a zombie, in a vision of terror, solitude and abandonment (The Lost Soul), amongst others, are the works presented in the first exhibition of this artist in a museum. In co-production with CCB, Nuno Cera presents an unpublished video entitled Unite' D’ Habitation. The work starts in a architectonic post-modern project by Le Corbusier and creates a hallucinatory atmosphere of terror, in the centre of which one comes to realise that life is a condemnation without escape.

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