Three new exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in Porto

The Serralves Museum of Modern Art in Porto (Portugal) has just opened three new exhibitions dedicated to artists Arthur Barrio, Ricardo Valentim and Mathieu Abonnek. Arthur Barrio (born in Porto, Portugal, 1945) returned to his home country after many years of living in Amsterdam, Aix-en-Provence and Rio de Janeiro.

The exhibition of the artist from Porto occupies the central hall of the Serralves Museum, where his new project, designed specifically for this space, is exhibited. The artist personally transformed the exhibition area for several weeks before its public opening. On the occasion of this exhibition, new books will be published with texts by the artist himself, which, in collaboration with Arthur Barrio, was prepared by Christina Motta. By the way, Barrio’s exhibition was personally lobbied by João Fernandez, director of Serralves, who will become the new deputy director of the famous Queen Sofia Museum in Madrid next summer, so the works of the Portuguese artist in this museum are not excluded.

Next to the works of Barrio, you can get acquainted with the work of young artists Ricardo Valentim (Loulé, Portugal, 1978 - lives in New York) and Mathieu Claibe Abonnek (Cayenne, French Guiana, France, 1977 - lives in Paris, France).

The Serralves exhibition of works by Ricardo Valentim is the first opportunity for a Portuguese artist to show his art in industrial graphics - posters, brochures, newsletters - all that he has been doing in recent years. By the way, Valentim won the Heineken CA2M Award at the 2011 ARCOmadrid.

French artist Mathieu Kleibé Abonnek received a parvo at his first ever exhibition in Portugal. His works are interesting in that they acquaint the viewer with the liberation movement of the former Portuguese colonies of Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau. Abonnek presents at this exhibition a number of new works created especially for the exhibition hall in Porto. It should be noted that the author gave preference to Portugal, so that in his native France, new works can only be seen in September in the city of Rennes.