The modernism at ccb

CCB - Centro cultural de Belém (Belém Cultural Center) for those who do not know, it's the largest building with cultural facilities in Portugal. Located in Lisbon, it holds the Joe Berardo Art Collection (estimated at over 316 million euros).
I visited the Berardo Collection Museum yesterday and I must say that I saw for the first time the original paintings, sculptures, interesting videos and installations of some artists that I've been admiring through the years. From Salvador Dali to Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Max Ernst, Magritte, Mario Cesariny, Paula Rego, André Masson, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon and many many more. All distributed by art movements  in an area of 140,000 m². (with terrible light btw). Despite the bad light design, which causes some annoying reflexes on the pieces,  it was very interesting to visit and I suggest it to anyone coming to Portugal or living here. A cool program for tourists, art aficionados and aliens like myself.
On a different note, my holidays ended, I had to update my crappy website  and I've too much work in hands right now. I must prepare my show for Coimbra, a 30 minute speech for the conference there (Gah!) and I'm also involved in a variety of projects with the portuguese author Manuel Carmo, which is an amazing and renowed artist and also a great friend of mine.
Some time ago I was talking with him about the internet and the way it has been revolutionizing the arts panorama (yes we are old enough) and Manuel decided to open an account on DA, which is a great site representing this reality.



Unfortunately, but fortunately for him, he's a very busy person and he hasn't the time to come here frequently. Even though, I decided to share this with you. I truly admire his work and hopefully we will upload more of his paintings soon.
On a funny note, I was contacted by a portuguese poet who wants to use my painting "INNER DYNAMICS" for the cover of his next poetry book. This was cool!  I allowed the use of my image after reading the whole book before it went to the publisher. It's great! I liked it! Will be published in October. Cool heh!
Ok! All for now.
Big warm hug. Enjoy the rest of Summer. I'll be around, despite the work.

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