Modus Operandi – Works from the Serralves Collection
Event
Modus Operandi took as its starting point a careful reading of the Serralves Collection since its inception, with the set of works acquired by the Secretary of State for Culture even before the Serralves Foundation and the Museum were created, to its most recent additions. From the outset, this Collection has had the ambition of including avant-garde artistic forms, experimentalist in nature and of an international scope, looking at the world from the Portuguese aesthetic and cultural specificity of the years that followed the 1974 Revolution. Also remarkable is the crossing and mixing of artistic disciplines such as plastic arts, music, performance and literature.
This exhibition brings together a selection of works that reflect various transdisciplinary, experimental and conceptual approaches that demonstrate the attitudes, contexts and concerns of artistic output from the 1960s to the present day. The title comes from the homonymous work by the North American artist Joseph Kosuth, belonging to the Portuguese State Collection of Contemporary Art (Coleção de Arte Contemporânea do Estado-CACE) in storage in Serralves, which is presented in the exhibition. Modus Operandi points to different ways of doing, of operating, namely of making and thinking art. It is precisely in this sense that the presentation, for the first time, of a portfolio, also belonging to CACE, in which 30 international artists pay homage to Joseph Beuys show the importance of his legacy in the way of making art, of his belief that art can change the world and that everyone can be an “artist”.
This exhibition brings together a selection of works that reflect various transdisciplinary, experimental and conceptual approaches that demonstrate the attitudes, contexts and concerns of artistic output from the 1960s to the present day. The title comes from the homonymous work by the North American artist Joseph Kosuth, belonging to the Portuguese State Collection of Contemporary Art (Coleção de Arte Contemporânea do Estado-CACE) in storage in Serralves, which is presented in the exhibition. Modus Operandi points to different ways of doing, of operating, namely of making and thinking art. It is precisely in this sense that the presentation, for the first time, of a portfolio, also belonging to CACE, in which 30 international artists pay homage to Joseph Beuys show the importance of his legacy in the way of making art, of his belief that art can change the world and that everyone can be an “artist”.
