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AMAR O MINHO | Programa de Residências Artísticas

AMAR O MINHO is an artistic residency program promoted by the MINHO IN consortium (consisting of the Alto Minho, Ave, and Cávado Inter-municipal Communities), which includes the 24 municipalities of Minho, with the aim of promoting the Minho brand from a cultural and touristic point of view. Zet gallery is responsible for the artistic coordination and communication of the program, with project curators Helena Mendes Pereira and António Rafael. The program, which runs from June 2020 to December 2021, promotes artistic residencies from different areas, which include art in public space, handicrafts, photography, music, dance, and literature.
13.06.2020. 
Xana Abreu was invited to produce a mural painting for the exterior of the Youth House in Vila Nova de Famalicão. “A complete artist, with a career in several disciplinary areas, it is in painting that she reaches us beyond the obvious because, although figurative in origin, her line exploding in colours has the surreal expression of the skins of all women and of the women who inhabit all humans. In Vila Nova de Famalicão, on a 9x3 metre mural at the Youth House, the collections and artists of Portuguese surrealism scream the energy of an artist who surpasses herself every day. It is from the black that life explodes. Just like in reality, moreover. We always come from darkness in search of ourselves and, in this work from the series Na tua pele, Xana Abreu loses herself so that we can find ourselves. The result is vibrant and beautiful, magical and blessed. In the responsibility of inaugurating this Artist Residence Programme of AMAR O MINHO, we begin with the generosity of an artist who conquers our Minho, a land that we return to her in gratitude”, the words of Helena Mendes Pereira, general manager and curator of zet gallery.
13.06.2020. 
Xana Abreu was invited to produce a mural painting for the exterior of the Youth House in Vila Nova de Famalicão. “A complete artist, with a career in several disciplinary areas, it is in painting that she reaches us beyond the obvious because, although figurative in origin, her line exploding in colours has the surreal expression of the skins of all women and of the women who inhabit all humans. In Vila Nova de Famalicão, on a 9x3 metre mural at the Youth House, the collections and artists of Portuguese surrealism scream the energy of an artist who surpasses herself every day. It is from the black that life explodes. Just like in reality, moreover. We always come from darkness in search of ourselves and, in this work from the series Na tua pele, Xana Abreu loses herself so that we can find ourselves. The result is vibrant and beautiful, magical and blessed. In the responsibility of inaugurating this Artist Residence Programme of AMAR O MINHO, we begin with the generosity of an artist who conquers our Minho, a land that we return to her in gratitude”, the words of Helena Mendes Pereira, general manager and curator of zet gallery.
Xana Abreu | Vila Nova de Famalicão | "Na Tua Pele"
13.06.2020. Xana Abreu was invited to produce...
24.06.2020.  
Mónica Mindelis was challenged to intervene on an access staircase to the Platform of Arts and Conde de Margaride Avenue, bringing the museum to the street. Inspired by the collection of the CIAJG - International Centre for the Arts José de Guimarães, the artist collected material and sought to identify points of contact between her artistic work and the pieces in José de Guimarães’ collection. One of the elements present in the museum that most caught his attention was the pre-Columbian art. In pre-Columbian art, textile pieces were made to accompany the ritual of funeral ceremonies. The space proposed for the intervention of this artistic residence was a place practically unused by the people of Guimarães. Thus, the artist started from this “dead” place and decided to give life to this staircase through an exploration of form and stain. The inauguration of the work in public space integrated the commemorations of June 24th.
24.06.2020.  
Mónica Mindelis was challenged to intervene on an access staircase to the Platform of Arts and Conde de Margaride Avenue, bringing the museum to the street. Inspired by the collection of the CIAJG - International Centre for the Arts José de Guimarães, the artist collected material and sought to identify points of contact between her artistic work and the pieces in José de Guimarães’ collection. One of the elements present in the museum that most caught his attention was the pre-Columbian art. In pre-Columbian art, textile pieces were made to accompany the ritual of funeral ceremonies. The space proposed for the intervention of this artistic residence was a place practically unused by the people of Guimarães. Thus, the artist started from this “dead” place and decided to give life to this staircase through an exploration of form and stain. The inauguration of the work in public space integrated the commemorations of June 24th.
Mónica Mindelis | Guimarães | "Amanhecer"
24.06.2020. Mónica Mindelis was challenged t...
04.07.2020. Despite already having long and diverse connections to Minho, the artist was surprised by a magical territory, an organic space of transition between deep Minho and Trás-os-Montes. Over two weeks, a period in which it is already possible to develop a connection between our photographic eye and the specific conditions of the place, Rodrigo was touched by the landscapes, the land and the people, profoundly. It was also an occasion for intense artistic reflection, a factor that was probably the most important of the whole residence, reinforcing the enormous relevance and importance of this initiative led by Helena Mendes Pereira and António Rafael. Rodrigo Amado gave a photography workshop with the theme “APRENDER A VER COM A OBJETIVA” (learning to see with the lens), which took place on July 4th, 2020, and was attended by local people.
04.07.2020. Despite already having long and diverse connections to Minho, the artist was surprised by a magical territory, an organic space of transition between deep Minho and Trás-os-Montes. Over two weeks, a period in which it is already possible to develop a connection between our photographic eye and the specific conditions of the place, Rodrigo was touched by the landscapes, the land and the people, profoundly. It was also an occasion for intense artistic reflection, a factor that was probably the most important of the whole residence, reinforcing the enormous relevance and importance of this initiative led by Helena Mendes Pereira and António Rafael. Rodrigo Amado gave a photography workshop with the theme “APRENDER A VER COM A OBJETIVA” (learning to see with the lens), which took place on July 4th, 2020, and was attended by local people.
Rodrigo Amado | Mondim de Basto
04.07.2020. Despite already having long and div...
16.09.2020.  
The Battle of Flowers is one of the most popular events in Barcelos and the entire Minho region. The population joins in a march of revelry and the streets are covered in thousands of colourful petals. There is a certain poetry in this concept of battling using flowers; this sculpture appropriates the history and poetics of this festival to create a tribute not only to the rich pottery technique of Barcelos but also to the traditions of the land. The concept of battling with flowers is full of poetry and reflects the epitome of what, as people, we are capable of. If it is through confrontation that we define ourselves - as a species, individuals, culture and society - and it is from this that we evolve, the daily battles we go through define the path we trace in the world and how we contribute to it. Building quasi-flowers is a way of expressing this human phenomenon, that of being capable of the most brutal action on the other, or of the most tender affection. The aim of the residence was to work from pottery and ceramics, using them not only as constructive techniques but also as formal inspiration, with the revolution of the wheel and the utilitarian pottery pieces giving the motto for the work’s configuration and with the notion of the multiple and the repetition offering the visual rhythm to the composition. The work was produced for the Pottery Museum, in collaboration with local craftsmen, namely the potter João Lourenço, starting from pottery and ceramics as artisanal expression.
16.09.2020.  
The Battle of Flowers is one of the most popular events in Barcelos and the entire Minho region. The population joins in a march of revelry and the streets are covered in thousands of colourful petals. There is a certain poetry in this concept of battling using flowers; this sculpture appropriates the history and poetics of this festival to create a tribute not only to the rich pottery technique of Barcelos but also to the traditions of the land. The concept of battling with flowers is full of poetry and reflects the epitome of what, as people, we are capable of. If it is through confrontation that we define ourselves - as a species, individuals, culture and society - and it is from this that we evolve, the daily battles we go through define the path we trace in the world and how we contribute to it. Building quasi-flowers is a way of expressing this human phenomenon, that of being capable of the most brutal action on the other, or of the most tender affection. The aim of the residence was to work from pottery and ceramics, using them not only as constructive techniques but also as formal inspiration, with the revolution of the wheel and the utilitarian pottery pieces giving the motto for the work’s configuration and with the notion of the multiple and the repetition offering the visual rhythm to the composition. The work was produced for the Pottery Museum, in collaboration with local craftsmen, namely the potter João Lourenço, starting from pottery and ceramics as artisanal expression.
Ana Almeida Pinto | Barcelos | "Batalha das Flores"
16.09.2020. The Battle of Flowers is one of ...
26.09.2020.  
Esposende is a place that dates the sea and has, in it and its people, an essential dimension of its culture. The sea is an identity mark and a common belonging. In this artwork for public space, Luís Canário Rocha, an artist graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto and with a professional career dedicated to the visual arts but also the performing and stage arts, exposes his expressive versatility, in a work in which combines expressionism more and less figurative, more and less abstract, in a set of patterns and shapes that brings us to the vessel of his imagination. The base of the work recovers the planimetry of the restinga, the meeting of the river and the sea, which dissolves in an immense blue that the artist created, inspired by the ambience of the place. It is a blue that is not repeated and that honours the territory. Therefore, the work is positioned at an entry point in the city, welcoming those who arrive and inviting them to stay.
26.09.2020.  
Esposende is a place that dates the sea and has, in it and its people, an essential dimension of its culture. The sea is an identity mark and a common belonging. In this artwork for public space, Luís Canário Rocha, an artist graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto and with a professional career dedicated to the visual arts but also the performing and stage arts, exposes his expressive versatility, in a work in which combines expressionism more and less figurative, more and less abstract, in a set of patterns and shapes that brings us to the vessel of his imagination. The base of the work recovers the planimetry of the restinga, the meeting of the river and the sea, which dissolves in an immense blue that the artist created, inspired by the ambience of the place. It is a blue that is not repeated and that honours the territory. Therefore, the work is positioned at an entry point in the city, welcoming those who arrive and inviting them to stay.
Luís Canário Rocha | Esposende | "(A)braços com o mar"
26.09.2020. Esposende is a place that dates ...
12.10.2020.  
Rafa López painted an Altice telecommunications antenna with 20 meters high. The Andalusian artist sought to integrate elements of the identity of Melgaço and its people into the artwork. The challenge for Rafa López, in Melgaço, was double: to integrate that territory in its aesthetics and turn the artwork into a public space. Altice was the ideal partner in welcoming the artist and the 12th of October emerges as a premonitory date for the first, hopefully of many, to add art to the technologies that connect communities to the world. It was the day that Christopher Columbus, who left Seville, arrived in the Americas. In that frontier place, that same day, we make art reach the skies.
12.10.2020.  
Rafa López painted an Altice telecommunications antenna with 20 meters high. The Andalusian artist sought to integrate elements of the identity of Melgaço and its people into the artwork. The challenge for Rafa López, in Melgaço, was double: to integrate that territory in its aesthetics and turn the artwork into a public space. Altice was the ideal partner in welcoming the artist and the 12th of October emerges as a premonitory date for the first, hopefully of many, to add art to the technologies that connect communities to the world. It was the day that Christopher Columbus, who left Seville, arrived in the Americas. In that frontier place, that same day, we make art reach the skies.
Rafa López | Melgaço | "Sem Título"
12.10.2020. Rafa López painted an Altice tel...
30.10.2020. 
Mónica Mindelis produced an artwork based on the technique and imagery of the Lenço dos Namorados (Valentines’ Handkerchief), one of the ex-libris of the municipality of Vila Verde. The artistic residence took place at Aliança Artesanal, a cooperative founded in 1988 and which has done remarkable work in collecting and recovering the handicraft of this region. This work is mainly due to three women, who are Maria da Conceição Pinheiro, her sister Alice Pinheiro, and the professor Maria do Carmo Reis Rocha, who, in the parish of Aboim da Nóbrega, also did an extraordinary job with this collection. The artist established close contact with the embroiderers and managed to understand what was at the genesis of the Lenços dos Namorados (Valentines’ Handkerchief), which resulted in a fusion between tradition and the contemporary. The resulting work is inspired by the four-quatrains handkerchief, “which is the only one that has four quatrains and speaks precisely of the Portugal-Brazil migration”. Mónica Mindelis transposed the tradition of the Lenços dos Namorados (Valentines’ Handkerchief) into a contemporary work, a reinterpretation of what are the traditions of the territory.
30.10.2020. 
Mónica Mindelis produced an artwork based on the technique and imagery of the Lenço dos Namorados (Valentines’ Handkerchief), one of the ex-libris of the municipality of Vila Verde. The artistic residence took place at Aliança Artesanal, a cooperative founded in 1988 and which has done remarkable work in collecting and recovering the handicraft of this region. This work is mainly due to three women, who are Maria da Conceição Pinheiro, her sister Alice Pinheiro, and the professor Maria do Carmo Reis Rocha, who, in the parish of Aboim da Nóbrega, also did an extraordinary job with this collection. The artist established close contact with the embroiderers and managed to understand what was at the genesis of the Lenços dos Namorados (Valentines’ Handkerchief), which resulted in a fusion between tradition and the contemporary. The resulting work is inspired by the four-quatrains handkerchief, “which is the only one that has four quatrains and speaks precisely of the Portugal-Brazil migration”. Mónica Mindelis transposed the tradition of the Lenços dos Namorados (Valentines’ Handkerchief) into a contemporary work, a reinterpretation of what are the traditions of the territory.
Mónica Mindelis | Vila Verde | "Assim como um mapa, representa um terreno"
30.10.2020. Mónica Mindelis produced an artwo...
24.04.2021.  
The train and the railway have a strong presence in the popular imagination of the village of Monção. Reviewing their history, it is easy to see the importance they had in the territory’s development; allowing for the movement of people and goods be- tween the whole of Minho and cross-border lands, they helped create social and economic relations that still reign today, giving rise to joint histories and traditions that prevail in the daily lives of local communities. Deactivated since 1989, the railway line survives today in memory format, as an incorporeal presence that has left its mark on geography and local heritage. The sculpture Bruma, thought of as a path to be taken, is a composition marked by emptiness and the iron skeleton that shapes it. It claims the volume of an old train and the metric of the Iberian gauge, creating a linear design that exalts the graphics and the rhythm of the railway. It finds its completeness in the physical presence of those who cross it, offering a sensorial and nostalgic journey that inscribes a new heritage in the surrounding landscape, witnessing the past and offering itself to the future as a space for reflection, sharing and meeting.
24.04.2021.  
The train and the railway have a strong presence in the popular imagination of the village of Monção. Reviewing their history, it is easy to see the importance they had in the territory’s development; allowing for the movement of people and goods be- tween the whole of Minho and cross-border lands, they helped create social and economic relations that still reign today, giving rise to joint histories and traditions that prevail in the daily lives of local communities. Deactivated since 1989, the railway line survives today in memory format, as an incorporeal presence that has left its mark on geography and local heritage. The sculpture Bruma, thought of as a path to be taken, is a composition marked by emptiness and the iron skeleton that shapes it. It claims the volume of an old train and the metric of the Iberian gauge, creating a linear design that exalts the graphics and the rhythm of the railway. It finds its completeness in the physical presence of those who cross it, offering a sensorial and nostalgic journey that inscribes a new heritage in the surrounding landscape, witnessing the past and offering itself to the future as a space for reflection, sharing and meeting.
Ana Almeida Pinto | Monção | "Bruma"
24.04.2021. The train and the railway have a...
26.04.2021. 
The artwork evokes the secular relationship between Fafe and Brazil. It is a sculptural ensemble consisting of two elements made of reused pieces of old wood, placed on cement bases, and coated with epoxy resin. The structure that joins them is made of cast iron and its base is composed of iron from balconies or railings of local buildings. The two pyramidal elements are placed with their vertices facing each other, thus creating an aesthetic resemblance to an hourglass or even stalactites/stalagmites. Both visions refer to the idea of time: either in a more direct way, i.e. the passage of time; or in a broader concept, referring to an intimate construction that makes both parties grow, strengthening the perpetual bonds of union. The top of the artwork also symbolizes the past, and the base, the future. The third time, the present, is represented by the drop that drips from the stalactite onto the stalagmite, by the grain of sand that is released from the top of the hourglass. This is the time that does not exist, a utopia that we experience continuously.
26.04.2021. 
The artwork evokes the secular relationship between Fafe and Brazil. It is a sculptural ensemble consisting of two elements made of reused pieces of old wood, placed on cement bases, and coated with epoxy resin. The structure that joins them is made of cast iron and its base is composed of iron from balconies or railings of local buildings. The two pyramidal elements are placed with their vertices facing each other, thus creating an aesthetic resemblance to an hourglass or even stalactites/stalagmites. Both visions refer to the idea of time: either in a more direct way, i.e. the passage of time; or in a broader concept, referring to an intimate construction that makes both parties grow, strengthening the perpetual bonds of union. The top of the artwork also symbolizes the past, and the base, the future. The third time, the present, is represented by the drop that drips from the stalactite onto the stalagmite, by the grain of sand that is released from the top of the hourglass. This is the time that does not exist, a utopia that we experience continuously.
Luís Canário Rocha | Fafe | "Terceiro Tempo (Ampulheta/estalactite-estalagmite)"
26.04.2021. The artwork evokes the secular re...
18.05.2021. 
Montanha (Mountain) is an installation in textile art, natural wool, that uses weaving and felting techniques, designed to adapt to the place of exhibition. It counted, for its realization, with the collaboration of the Women of Bucos. The work evokes the relationship between density and the path towards lightness, through its composition and the process of know-how itself, which went from the force of hitting the loom to make blankets and covers, with more closed wefts, to working with less force, which lets the light pass through. Through references of nature and territory such as the movement of herds in space and their textures, the vines in height, the stones of the hills, the stones of the granite walls, the design of the fields, the wool itself and its cycle, a notion of movement is evoked where the wool draws a path through the analysis of its craft process, from shearing to weaving.
18.05.2021. 
Montanha (Mountain) is an installation in textile art, natural wool, that uses weaving and felting techniques, designed to adapt to the place of exhibition. It counted, for its realization, with the collaboration of the Women of Bucos. The work evokes the relationship between density and the path towards lightness, through its composition and the process of know-how itself, which went from the force of hitting the loom to make blankets and covers, with more closed wefts, to working with less force, which lets the light pass through. Through references of nature and territory such as the movement of herds in space and their textures, the vines in height, the stones of the hills, the stones of the granite walls, the design of the fields, the wool itself and its cycle, a notion of movement is evoked where the wool draws a path through the analysis of its craft process, from shearing to weaving.
Patrícia Oliveira | Cabeceiras de Basto | "Montanha"
18.05.2021. Montanha (Mountain) is an install...
22.05.2021. 
Tânia Carvalho, a choreographer, was invited to return to her hometown, Viana do Castelo. She chose a drift toward music, an artistic area not often publicly associated with the artist. A performance in which she explored the traditional singing of Minho, interpreted sublimely by the Group of Dances and Songs of Perre, framed on stage with sculptural pieces by Iva Viana. Tânia Carvalho and Matthieu Ehrlacher, guest musician, merged with the group and then evolved alone through versions of the traditional themes previously presented, with a contemporary language of their own. The final presentation took place at the Museum of Decorative Arts of Viana do Castelo, with a concert that brought together local artists from different artistic areas.
22.05.2021. 
Tânia Carvalho, a choreographer, was invited to return to her hometown, Viana do Castelo. She chose a drift toward music, an artistic area not often publicly associated with the artist. A performance in which she explored the traditional singing of Minho, interpreted sublimely by the Group of Dances and Songs of Perre, framed on stage with sculptural pieces by Iva Viana. Tânia Carvalho and Matthieu Ehrlacher, guest musician, merged with the group and then evolved alone through versions of the traditional themes previously presented, with a contemporary language of their own. The final presentation took place at the Museum of Decorative Arts of Viana do Castelo, with a concert that brought together local artists from different artistic areas.
Tânia Carvalho | Viana do Castelo | "Sem Título"
22.05.2021. Tânia Carvalho, a choreographer, ...
29.05.2021. 
The artistic residence in Vizela allowed the cultural association SONOSCOPIA to develop, in partnership with the Philharmonic Society of Vizela, the creation of an artistic/sound object, in video art format, whose materialisation was developed around the idea of identity and the material and immaterial heritage of Vizela, organising its work from themes such as soundscape, local artistic community, aural space, memory, water and territory. The result of the developed work is a curious and interesting fusion between the experimental language of music and video with the essence of classical music, in a clear, close and obligatory reference to the composer from Vizela, Joaquim da Costa Chicória, having been used multiple fragments of works of his authorship, although deconstructed for the effect, which gives them a new dimension.
Being Vizela a city with deep connections to water, this was, exactly, one of the central themes of this residence, having been captured sounds and images in the Thermal Spa of Vizela, in the Park of the Thermal Spa and next to the River Vizela itself. The result of the artistic residence can be enjoyed through the viewing of the installation which results in a video full of character.
29.05.2021. 
The artistic residence in Vizela allowed the cultural association SONOSCOPIA to develop, in partnership with the Philharmonic Society of Vizela, the creation of an artistic/sound object, in video art format, whose materialisation was developed around the idea of identity and the material and immaterial heritage of Vizela, organising its work from themes such as soundscape, local artistic community, aural space, memory, water and territory. The result of the developed work is a curious and interesting fusion between the experimental language of music and video with the essence of classical music, in a clear, close and obligatory reference to the composer from Vizela, Joaquim da Costa Chicória, having been used multiple fragments of works of his authorship, although deconstructed for the effect, which gives them a new dimension.
Being Vizela a city with deep connections to water, this was, exactly, one of the central themes of this residence, having been captured sounds and images in the Thermal Spa of Vizela, in the Park of the Thermal Spa and next to the River Vizela itself. The result of the artistic residence can be enjoyed through the viewing of the installation which results in a video full of character.
SONOSCOPIA | Vizela | "Éter"
29.05.2021. The artistic residence in Vizela ...
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