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MARCH 2014
“A Ronda da Noite” exhibition
at Cinema Batalha
Pedro Barateiro Exhibition
ARTES CULTURAL
PROGRAMME
The mounting of the exhibition was accom-
panied by the in situ showing of the film
“Quarteto” which is based on a text byHeiner
Muller which was premiered before a large
audience on the last night of the exhibition.
In parallel, this 2
nd
ARTES Cultural Pro-
gramme also prepared an exhibition by
Pedro Barateiro which was held between
the November 9 and the December 7 in the
Mota-Galiza Pavillion.
The installation was composed of two
works: a video using images taken at the
Roberto Burle Marx Memorial in Rio de
Janeiro to which were added images and
sounds from different sources and which
explore interest in the space built for the
home of this landscape architect, an icon
of Brasilian modernism; a sculpture of
metal, glass and materials such as terra-
cotta and wood representing the figure of
an animal on a table inspired by a sculp-
ture from the Luena tribe from the North-
-east of Angola and which is held in the
Dundo Museum.
Pedro Barateiro, a plastic artist born in
Almada, lives and works in Lisbon. He
participated in innumerable individual
and collective exhibitions and today is one
of the most prestigious representatives of
Portuguese contemporary art.
The ARTES contemporary arts pro-
gramme organised by the Manuel An-
tónio da Mota Foundation opened the
“A Ronda da Noite” Exhibition by João
Sousa Cardoso to the public on the 1st
of November.
In its first two days the exhibition recei-
ved hundreds of visitors and remained
open until November 9 when Sousa
Cardoso’s film “Quarteto” premiered
at at 10 p.m in the main theatre of the
Cinema Batalha. After participating in
the “Às Artes Cidadãos!” (Serralves Mu-
seum, Porto, 2010) and the exhibition
“Os Errantes” (KijkRuimte, Amsterdam,
2012), as well as theatre and cinema
appearances, “A Ronda da Noite” is the
artist’s first individual in several years.
Occupying the Cinema Batalha – a key
part of the history of cinema in Portugal
– and in dialogue with the modernist
building by Artur Andrade and questio-
ning the relations between photography,
the cinematographic tradition and the
memory of moving images, “A Ronda
da Noite” transforms a space which has
been closed up into a labyrinth of light
and shade and inhabited by bodies and
phantasmagoria to reveal the contiguity
between ruin, politics and the future.
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Font: Catarina Oliveira, Photographer