Nadir Afonso Cycle

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Nadir Afonso Cycle

After last July's opening of the exhibition 'Movimento Perpétuo | Tapeçarias e Serigrafias de Nadir Afonso' (Perpetual Movement | Tapestries and Serigraphs by Nadir Afonso), which has already seen a total of over 12,000 visitors, September will be the occasion for the Nadir Afonso Cycle, a series of three talks that bring together experts in painting, architecture, maths, aesthetics and other sciences to reveal the secrets of an immensely prolific and inspiring work.

On Saturday 3 September, at 6pm, the topic will be "Nadir Afonso, painter and architect". An opportunity to discover how these two languages converged in the genesis of the work of the painter from Flavi, the talk will be presented by Laura Afonso, president of the Nadir Afonso Foundation, and will be attended by António Quadros Ferreira, Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Porto, Adelaide Ginga, curator at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, and Celina Silva, researcher in Literature Theory, Art Theory, Aesthetics and Semiotics at the University of Porto. Teresa Albuquerque will be moderating.


The following Saturday, the 10th, also at 6pm, the talk will focus on "Maths in Nadir's work". With the presence of Elfrida Ralha, Professor at the University of Minho and a scholar of the work of José Anastácio da Cunha, Aníbal Ferreira, Professor at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto, and João Cabeleira, Architect and Professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Minho, the confluences between Nature, Mathematics and Beauty will be discussed, highlighting Nadir's mastery and scientific sensitivity in the way he intuited and projected these notions in his unique Art.


Finally, on Saturday 17th, at 6pm, Carlos Fiolhais, a physicist with an extensive career in science communication, Fátima Lambert, Professor of Aesthetics and Education at the Porto School of Education, Laura Afonso, President of the Nadir Afonso Foundation, will talk about "Nadir Afonso's Aesthetic Theory", moderated by José Eduardo Reis, Professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro.


The exhibition, which can still be seen until 30 September, as well as the Cycle, are organised by the Casa de Mateus Foundation, in partnership with the Nadir Afonso Foundation, in fulfilment of its territorial, heritage and contemporary art dissemination missions.

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Nadir Afonso Cycle

Schedule

Monday to Friday 

9am to 5pm

Saturday and Sunday

9am to 5:30pm

Contacts

+351 259 323 121

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