Viseu Campus opens "Mãos sobre a Cidade" exhibition

Viseu Regional Centre of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) and Serralves Foundation are inaugurating the exhibition "Mãos sobre a cidade. Investigações artísticas no meio urbano", which includes the presentation of a group of works by the American artist Gordon Matta-Clark, on 28 February.

A group of works by this unmissable artist, famous for his large-scale interventions in vacant buildings during the 1970s in cities such as New York, Genoa and Antwerp, is presented. One of the most dynamic figures in the vibrant New York artistic community of this period, Matta-Clark developed important individual and collaborative projects based on urban experience and a strong sense of community, crossing art and architecture, citizenship and resistance.

Mãos sobre a cidade also includes an exhibition that brings together works by various artists at the Lisbon campus, and the presentation of works by the artists E. M. Melo e Castro and Pedro Barateiro at the Braga and Porto Regional Centres.

This exhibition, curated by Joana Valsassina, is the third initiative organised as part of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa's membership of the Serralves Foundation's Founding Board and is part of the Serralves Collection's Itinerant Exhibitions Programme, which aims to make the Foundation's collection accessible to diverse audiences in all regions of the country.

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