17 November 2007 – 28 February 2008

A Theater without Theater

A Theater without Theater sets out to explore the different artistic proposals which, since the beginning of the 20th century, have emerged based on the theatrical model and which have resulted in extensions and alternatives to the aesthetic categories and divisions of the fine arts within the bosom of the space of the visual arts.

Hybrids - those multiple forms of expression - have constituted and still constitute territories where the issues typical of fine arts feed off those characteristic of live arts; issues in which the living confronts futility, time faces up to space, life to art, and the real to its representation to such an extent that the space of contemporary art could be considered the theatre’s “other stage”.

This “other stage” and the place occupied on it by the subject is precisely what this project aims to display - a subject at times actor, at times spectator, whose presence leads to a redefining of the functioning and purpose of the work.

Address

Museu Colecção Berardo
Praça do Império
1449-003 Lisboa
phone +351 213612927
http://www.museuberardo.com/

Opening Hours

every day 10a.m. - 7 p.m.
Friday 10a.m. - 10 p.m.

Description of the Museum

The Berardo Collection Museum offers a true panorama, as well as a means of exploring visual artistic creation from the early twentieth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century, especially from Europe and North America. The works represented in the collection impart a richness of history, style, origins and materials. Although history and style were taken into account when selecting works for this collection, which includes works from Abstraction, Figuration, Surrealism, Pop Art, Hyperrealism, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Sculpture, Installation, contemporary Photography and Video, it also constitutes a transversal view of art, whereby works represent different sensitive viewpoints and influences.

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