Group exhibition

Museu de Serralves, Oporto

28.11.2024 - 01.06.2025

Contemporary Song is the title of the exhibition dedicated to the first presentation at Serralves of the contemporary art collection created by the gallerist and collector Mário Teixeira da Silva (Porto, 1947—2023, Lisbon), recently deposited at the Foundation.

From Mário Teixeira da Silva’s perspective, a work of art should inspire the observer to reflect and research. Viewed in its most diverse aspects, this process would facilitate the construction of a comprehensive vision of the works and artists. In this context it can be assumed that the collector felt particularly close to the creative process of many of the artists represented in his collection. A paradigmatic case is Contemporary Song (1984), by Franz Erhard Walther (1939, Fulda, Germany), after which this exhibition is named.

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