The Government approved the acquisition of 73 works of art by 64 artists, in 2022, for the State Collection of Contemporary Art (CACE), for an amount of 800 thousand euros, which had been announced as a cap for this year.
In a statement, the Ministry of Culture revealed that Minister Pedro Adão e Silva “approved, on September 16the report and acquisition proposals under the State’s annual contemporary art acquisition program for 2022″.
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Among the works proposed for acquisition are works of alice two kings (born 1996 and the youngest artist in the group), Ana Hatherly, Ana Mata, André Guedes, António Caramelo, Carlos Bunga, Catarina Lopes Vicente, Délio Jasse, Edgar Martins, Isabel Cordovil, Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, Leonor Antunes (author of the most expensive piece on the list, “Carpet”, valued at 64 thousand euros), Manuela Marques, Maria Lino, Nastio Mosquito, Paulo Catrica, Rita GTAmong many others.
According to the report of the Commission for the Acquisition of Contemporary Art, sent along with the ministry statement, in addition to the proposed works, the preparation of a catalog with the acquisitions and a joint exhibition of the works acquired between 2021 and 2022 is also recommended. .
It is also proposed that, after the closure of this exhibition, the acquired works be exhibited in exhibition centers in a logic of territorial dispersion, allowing the dissemination of new acquisitions of the Contemporary Art Collection of the State, being particularly important that this happens in territories with low population density”, added the commission coordinated by Sandra Vieira Jürgens.
Created in the 1970s, with the aim of becoming a representative collection of national artistic production, the then “SEC Collection” made acquisitions over the decades, but was paralyzed for about 20 years.
Acquisitions resumed in 2019, through the creation of commissions to identify works by contemporary plastic artists, with the aim of integrating them into the State program for the acquisition of contemporary Portuguese art.
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This program was relaunched by the Government after a group of 200 visual artists demanded, in 2018, urgent measures for the contemporary art sector from the President of the Government, António Costa, who created a ten-year acquisition program, starting from a budget of 300 thousand euros for 2019.
Since then, they have been created two acquisition commissionswith specialists in the area, and with that amount 21 works of art were acquired in 2019, the following year, with a budget of 500 thousand euros more Sixty-five were purchased, and, in 2021, with a value of 650 thousand euros, others 73 works.
An amount of 800,000 euros was planned for this year for new acquisitions of works of art for CACE.
Source: Observadora
