Today, January 23rd, Galeria Vera Cortês opens the exhibition Cinzento/Grey/Gris by Ignasi Aballí. The exhibition opens at 20:00 in Lisbon and admission is free.
Ignasi Aballí transforms everyday objects, language and media into reflections on perception and representation. With a minimalist approach, his work often addresses themes of absence, disappearance and the fragile relationship between images and text. Using subtle interventions - such as repurposed newspapers and delicate gestures - the artist challenges how we consume, lose and reconstruct both images and their information.
In his first exhibition at the gallery, Ignasi brings together crucial series and new works that continue the artist's investigation into the limits of painting as gesture and representation.
Starting this month, Galeria Vera Cortês, in partnership with School of Arts, is promoting the In-Person conversation series, which brings together artists, curators, collectors and researchers to talk about art. Based on the gallery's exhibition program, the talks are an opportunity to get to know and discuss the complexity of artistic practices, their dynamics and the place they occupy in the system of art, the market, institutions, culture and politics.
The first conversation will take place on the last Saturday of January, the 25th, at 4:30 p.m., between the artist Ignasi Aballí and the architect and collector Vasa Perovic, moderated by Nuno Crespo.
Vasa J. Perović was born in Belgrade (Serbia) in 1965 and graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Belgrade in 1992. In 1994 he earned a master’s degree from the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, and in 1997 he established Bevk Perović Arhitekti, in partnership with Matija Bevk. Their portfolio includes a variety of projects in different scales – large housing projects, both social and commercial, public and cultural buildings, university buildings, museums, office buildings, congress facilities as well as individual houses. The office has been awarded numerous international prizes European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award in 2007 (for Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Ljubljana), Kunstpreis Berlin in 2006, Piranesi Award in 2005, as well as national prizes – 4 Plečnik Prizes for best building of the year in Slovenia, Golden Pencil awards by the Chamber of Architects, as well as Prešeren Prize, the highest national prize for culture, awarded by the President of the Republic of Slovenia in 2005. The work of the office has been published extensively in most important international publications. Recently, the monographic issue of El Croquis about their work titled ‘Conditionalism’ has been published in Madrid, Spain. They exhibit their work extensively, and recent solo exhibitions of their work have been organized in Kunstverein Bielefeld, Germany, Museum for Applied Arts, Belgrade, Serbia and Fragner Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
Nuno Crespo is a curator, art critic, researcher and dean of the School of the Arts at Universidade Católica Portuguesa. He has a degree and doctorate in philosophy from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His research activities have been dedicated to the intersection between art, architecture and philosophy and the possibilities of exercising critical thinking. He has devoted articles to authors such as Adolf Loos, Aldo Rossi, Kant, Peter Zumthor, Wittgenstein and Walter Benjamin. His publications include works on Adriana Molder, Aires Mateus, Axel Hütte, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Candida Höfer, Daniel Blaufuks, Fassbinder, Gerhard Richter, Luisa Cunha, Pedro Costa, Rui Chafes, Vasco Araújo, among others, and the books “Wittgenstein e a Estética” and “Julião Sarmento. Olhar Animal.” As an extension of his research activities, he is an art critic and has curated several exhibitions.