16 March 2007 – 24 June 2007

MANUEL CARGALEIRO. 7 PROPOSALS FOR ARCHITECTURE

Celebrating M. Cargaleiro’s eighty years, the Museum opens a temporary exhibition with seven ceramic panels made at Vietri Sul Mare, Italy, in 2006, which are a surprising proposal for ceramic intervention in architecture. Starting with modules of abstract volumes, Cargaleiro composes a variety of high relieves, revealing the unlimited possibilities of ceramics as an artistic value.

Exemplary, at eighty, Manuel Cargaleiro stands, through these panels, to the tradition of centuries as to the contemporariness of tiles.

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Opening Hours

Tuesday: 2 pm - 6 pm
Wednesday to Sunday: 10 am - 6 pm
Closed:
Mondays, Easter Sunday, New Year,
1st May and 25th December

Description of the Museum

This is the largest part of the collection, currently numbering 7,271 inventoried pieces that form the natural core of the Museum.
The collection initially came from the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, where some pieces were exhibited in the ceramics section.
In the early 1960s, this collection was moved to the Convent of Madre de Deus under the supervision of João Miguel dos Santos Simões and works from other museums and state institutions were added.
Since then, the collection has continued to expand through acquisitions and donations from individuals and institutions alike.

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