On 3 April, at 7pm, there will be a talk about the exhibition ⒶMO-TE by Francisco Tropa, with Maria Filomena Molder, Francisco Tropa and Ricardo Nicolau at the Serralves Library.
Francisco Tropa's exhibition at Serralves brings together three of the artist's major projects: The Assembly of Euclid and The Enigma of RM, presented in the museum's galleries, and the so-called prototypes, exhibited on the mezzanine level of the Serralves Library. The first of these, which is very long in the making (Francisco Tropa has been working on it since the early 2000s), takes on a prominent role in Ⓐmo-te: as well as occupying one of the largest rooms in the exhibition, its two parts - O Transe do Ciclista and A Marca do Seio - are activated by performances four days a week during the six-month duration of the exhibition. Linking mythology, archaeology, photography, proto-cinema and performance - and the art of today with myths and artistic manifestations that go back many centuries - The Assembly of Euclid presents itself, in the multiplicity of references it brings together (and the interpretations it triggers), as a sophisticated as it is crystal clear (and enlightening) gateway into Francisco Tropa's universe. This possible entrance will be the starting point for a conversation with Maria Filomena Molder - philosopher, researcher and Emeritus Professor of Aesthetics at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (and author of some of the most beautiful essays on art written in Portugal), Francisco Tropa and Ricardo Nicolau, curator of the exhibition. It will discuss topics as diverse as the wonder at the appearance of images, the persistence of ancient forms and iconology today, Pompeii, myths (of the creation of the world, in particular), the relationship between photography and the idea of ‘mark’ or index, Man Ray's photography or Jacques Tati's cinema.