Paula Rego : Manifesto

Casa das Histórias Paula Rego is marking the 50th anniversary of April 25 with the exhibition "Paula Rego: Manifesto". 

The new exhibition at the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego evokes the artist's first solo show, presented in 1965 at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, in order to recall, on the 50th anniversary of April 25th, the striking themes and events in Portugal's recent history that Paula Rego fearlessly explored in her works. 

"Paula Rego: Manifesto" is curated by Catarina Alfaro and Leonor de Oliveira. The exhibition is an initiative of the D. Luís I Foundation and Cascais City Council, as part of the Bairro dos Museus program, which is pursuing the ambitious cultural policy they have jointly defined.

"Paula Rego: Manifesto" is based on the recreation of Paula Rego's very first solo exhibition, presented almost 60 years ago, at a time marked by the intensification of the repressive and persecutory environment of the dictatorship. From April 18, eighteen of the nineteen paintings that made up that historic exhibition, created between 1961 and 1965, will be brought back together and can be seen at the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego.

Some of the works that make up "Paula Rego: Manifesto" have only recently been located, after years of unknown whereabouts, as a result of painstaking research, which is still underway and aims to catalog all the known works that Paula Rego produced between the 1950s and 1960s. The works on loan come from the collections of national institutions such as the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Serralves Foundation, as well as private Portuguese, English and French collections.

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