Pedro Barateiro presents on Wednesday at Rainha Sofía, the national museum dedicated to contemporary art, the performance “My body, this paper, this fire.”
The ‘show’, according to the same information released by the Portuguese embassy, ”is based on the report of a student demonstration in 1994 to talk about the idea of touch and care, in the form of a hug and kiss between two people.”
The work of Almada de Negreiros and the ‘performance’ of Pedro Barateiro will serve as the framework for the presentation, in the same place, of the 2024 edition of Cultura Portugal, a program with dozens of cultural initiatives in several cities in Spain and Andorra that all The year takes place between September and December, organized by the Portuguese Embassy in Madrid.
The presentation of Culture Portugal 2024 will be led by the Minister of Culture of Portugal, Dalila Rodrigues, and the Minister of Culture of Spain, Ernest Urtasun.
According to information already provided by the Portuguese embassy, Culture Portugal 2024, which celebrates its 22nd edition this year, meets this time with the “Portugal-Spain: 50 years of democracy” initiative.
This initiative is a joint and transversal program agreed by the two countries to, until September 2025, celebrate and highlight the power and role of culture in the democratization processes of Portugal and Spain, which took place simultaneously.
Dalila Rodrigues and Ernest Urtasun already jointly inaugurated, on September 12, the Mostra España 2024, at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC/CCB), in the Belém Cultural Center, in Lisbon, next to the painting “El Abrazo”, by Spanish artist Juan Genovés, which is considered an iconic work of the political transition in Spain from dictatorship to democracy.
Mostra España is a biennial festival that aims to publicize in Portugal the dynamism of the current cultural industries of the Iberian country, with programming between September and November, in several Portuguese locations, and this year it also intersects with the “Portugal-Spain:” festival. : 50 years of democracy.
As for Culture Portugal 2024, it is associated with the Rainha Sofía Art Center, after last year it began at the Prado Museum, with a ‘performance’ by the artist Carlos Bunga, together with a group of young people at risk of social exclusion . .
In 2023, in addition to the cultural programming throughout Spain and Andorra, Cultura Portugal included the delivery to the José Saramago Library in Madrid of a collection of books that made it the first library specialized in Portuguese literature in the Spanish capital.
Source: Observadora
