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SATURDAY DECEMBER 7TH, 5PM
Mauro Cerqueira - Canções para um burro morto
All age groups
Event
Based on the sense of travel, the solo exhibition by artist Mauro Cerqueira, curated by João Terras and designed exclusively to reverberate with CIAJG's artistic program, rehearses a cross between film and painting, producing a visual context for the relationship with his work.
The exhibition's core journey is based on the route that Mauro Cerqueira and the artist and poet Babi Badalov took between Paris and Tangier in 2021. Following in the footsteps of the writers Jean Genet and Mohamed Choukri, and with the encounter with the figure of Genet in Larache by his grave as a pronouncement, Mauro Cerqueira films Badalov walking through the streets of Morocco as he reads Jean Genet's poem “The Condemned to Death”. The exhibition, based on the rumor of this journey, reveals what Mauro Cerqueira's work has led us to over time: to find the meaning of history in the marginality of life.
Mauro Cerqueira (Guimarães, 1982). He studied at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto, in Guimarães. In 2009, he received an Honorable Mention in the EDP New Artists Award and, in 2005, together with the artist André Sousa, he founded the independent space 'Uma Certa falta de Coerência', an exhibition space that became a constellation of artists that included Babi Badalov, Stephan Dillemuth, Dan Graham, Mieko Meguro, Silvestre Pestana, Luisa Cunha, Ani Schulze, June Crespo, Pedro G. Romero, Josephine Pryde, Rigo 23 and Daniel Barroca. Mauro Cerqueira has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in national and international galleries and institutions, including the Institute for New Connovative Action, Seattle, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, MARCO/ Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Galeria Nuno Centeno, Porto, Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Gas Natural Fenosa Museum of Contemporary Art, Galeria Graça Brandão, Lisbon, La Casa Encendida, Madrid. His work is represented in various national and international public and private collections.
Free admission, subject to capacity limits
Curated by João Terras